Arizona republican., 1904-01-17
THE ST. CECILIA GIRLS IDEA
Words Repeated Daily That Bring
 Good Looks.


 one woman of the other. "I have been taking lessons, and I advise you to do the same.
 "The St. Cecilia girl is one who has peaceful thoughts and whose face mir TOTS her ideas. It is a sort of inner science. You try to be good because to be good is to be beautiful.
 "The idea is this: The girl who thinks as she should think, who does as she should do, who walks as she should walk, and who talks as she should talk, is sure to be rewarded. And her reward will be in her face.
 The St. Cecilia girl rises in the morning and goes to the window. She forces smile to her lips and takes deep breath. Then she speaks this word, Serenity slowly three times Serenity, serenity, serenity
 This puts her in a gentle frame of mind and she is ready to dress fer the day. Make the experiment yourself Say the word three times, and notice how softly it falls upon the ear and how it rests the brain.
 "The next exercise is taken in the middle of the morning, and. like the other, it is a word exercise This time the word is tranquility And it is to be spoken three times. slowly, after one comes in from shopping, or has a trying talk with the cook
 Say tranquility and notice how it rests you. The liquid sound soothes the ear and rests the head
 The third word exercise is taken before the evening meal, be it dinner or supper. It consists of two words, joy and happiness spoken twice. The words are spoken slowly and with a smila and the effect is magical and electrical.
 Immediately the hard expression leaves the face and a gentle one steals over it. The face lights up and enc is in proper frame of mind for dinner.
 ''The mighty words to be spoken be- fore retiring are Peace and rest And the girl who says these words over half a dozen times will fall asleep free from disquieting dreams. They can be spoken in a gentle whisper until the face smOothes out and the tired wrinkles disappear.
 The line of reasoning is similar to the one employed by the Delsarteans. The theory upon which Delsarte him. self worked was that the mind and body reflected the spoken word He believed that the woman who said I feel cross would be cross. while the woman who said I feel happy would be happy.
 "Oh, there is a great art in being a St. Ceceila girl, for you have to live a pretty even sort of life and keep your temper down or you can never pre- serve that sweet-faced look
 And the woman who was trying to keep her temper down smoothed out her wrinkles with her finger tips. forced smile and walked away
 That there is something in the idea Of the St. Cecilia girl is shown by the fact that woman's disposition is be- trayed by the wrinkles in her face.
 The envious woman has lines run ming across her forehead above the eyebrows. These envious wrinkles are caused by the uplifting of the brows and by the supercilious smile which envious women cultivate
 The melancholy woman's forehead is wrinkled in a peculiar way: she has contracted the habit of lifting one eyebrow much higher than the other This gives her a set of wrinkles over the lifted eyebrow. Often there will be mass of furrows over one eye brow, while the ether side is perfectly smooth
 The other mark of the melancholy woman is seen in her mouth. which is drawn down at one side and i'm
 The woman with bad temper shows tiny wrinkles that cover the en- tire face. They are caused by a con- stant distorting of the face and by a petulant expression
 The determined woman has a very disagI ceable set of lines They are in the form of parantheses that enclose the mouth, and there is always a down. ward drocp of the cheeks, caused by the habit or pressing the lips firmly together
 The woman whose lines are already set and who wants to change them can do it by the Swedish method of smoothing them out. It is done with the finger tips, and very gently. for the face cannot stand harsh treat ment.
 The Swedish method of face culture is the one that develops the tired mus cles and stimulates them to perform their duty.
 To get the best results from the Swedish treatment, wet the finger tips in salt and water. and go over the lines of the face carefully.
 Do not treat them roughly, but gent ly, and in a soothing manner, as though one were caressing tired child. Treat each little wrinkle in this way, wetting the finger tips repeat edly.
 This is to stimulate the skin and to wake up the soft muscles. Five min utes Of this treatment in the morning is sufficient.
 The nightly treatment for the tired muscles and the wrinkled skin is en- torely different. Here the face is treated to pumping out course.
 To do the work thoroughly. take a httle saucer of pure oil of sweet al monds, or olive oil, or sweet oil. If you cannot get the good pure oil cas- fly, then use a very thin cold cream and keep it heated so that it will not harden. Keep it on the fire and try to have soft. pasty substance all the time near at hand during the opera ton.
 Heat the face a little before begin ming by holding it near the fire or by applying hot cloths. Then dip the finger tips in the oil and describe the swedish movements rnOp tho f,ca