Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY
This is the Season of the De-
collete Gown.
AVOID ALL DRAUGHTS
HOW TO KEEP THE THROAT AND
NECK WHITE AND BEAUTIFUL.
How to Treat Successfully Small or
Large Disfgurements of
the Skin.
AVOID ALL DRAUGHTS
Written Tor The Evening Star.

Written Tor The Evening Star.
Waltz music is playing and the winter
girl is appearing in her ball room finery.
The gayeties of the winter season are or.
Dainty evening gowns expose the throat,
and unless it is a pretty one her ladyship
is cast into the depths of despair. She
has worn collars inches high, lined with
buckram and stiffened with .featherbone,
and as a consequence there are DARK
streaks around the neck where only
string of beads should be. She has grown
careless about massage during the time
when her neck was not exposed. She has
allowed it 10 grow too full or too thin, not
realizing that upon its perfect lines would
depend her winter beauty. Her out-0f-doors
life in the summer called for shirt waists
with collars that concealed, but now the
truth is out.
II it be delightful truth. she is for
tunate girl. Alas for her who is obliged
to fill in the neck of every low-cut gown
with tulle or chiffon or depend upon the
arrangement of rosettes and bows and
flowers to conceal unlovely angles and
dingy skin.
1t is never too late to mend-certainly
not on the first day of the New Yeac Make
unto yourself resolution that betofe the
winters season is over you will have
throat to boast Of You can If you will
neck that is too IA. or too thin must
be treated with exercises which are often
described and well known. But while these
lay the foundation of perfect lines, the
curves that every artist seeks, tbere are
certain finishing touches without which no
neck can be beautiful, no matter what its
curves are. We might speak Of these as
the grooming.
The massage motions remove a double
chin or fill out hollows according to wheth-
er they are applied with force ana rapid
ity or with a leisuTely gentleness. You nay
ialy hot iRt cd in mi l1nT
and. therefore, do not need them. But every
neck, to be kept in perfectly groomei con-
dition, white and smooth needs The APP
pl1cation of some cream or lotion, and this
should be applied with the correct mo-
tionS.
Begin the Strokes.
The stroking motion begins at the chin.
From there the fingers of both hands move
downward and outward following the lines
of an inverted V. This motion, used with
much pressure tears down double chin.
It also has a tendency to eradicate the ugly
little lines that form below the chin after
thirty, or often sooner. Apply to the throat
whatever cream you are using, then work
it in with this motion. If you are not too
plump, let the motion be very gentle.
simple cold cream, one which you
easily prepare for yourself, is made in this
way: Melt together l pint sweet almond
OIL Il pint rose water, ounce white wax,
X ounce spermaceti. When melted, remove
from the stove and beat until the ingredi-
ents form a smooth paste. The daintiness
of all these compounds depends upon their
smoothness, which is only achieved by
thorough melting and beating.
If the skin is in reasonably good condi-
tor to start with some cream of this kind
is all sufficient to keep it looking well. 1t
is not a bleach, but it has a tendency to
keep the skin fair, and it removes rough
ness which may come from chapping or a
collar that rubs. By the way, all the work
you may devote to your neck is of no avail
if you persist in abusing it by choking col
lars. don't ask you to be unconventional;
but so many soft collars are now in fashion
that there is no reason why you should
cling to those OF the past decade, which be-
long more properly to the middle ages and
the inquiSition.