Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-18
THE DEPTH OF BEAUTY.
One Touch of Inferiority Spells ALL
The Importance of Right Beginning.


Beauty is but skin Deep" Beauty is
simply nothing Of the sort, and that is
the plain truth. Real beauty goes
down to the bone, lies in the bones
themselves, just as beauty in dress
is not mercy confined to the gown It
self. 1 am not barking back to that
venerable chestnut, the Frenchwom-
ans petticoat under a two-penny- half
penny frock. But no dress ever look
ed good over badly made and badly
worn dessous; no dress ever succeed
ed as it should over a bad, cheap
Iining( for there are decent cheap lin
ings, but they are meant to line cheap
materials, you know; no expensive
material ever disguised inferior art
or shoddy trimming. Just as in the
old smile we are told that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump OF
dough, so one touch of inferiority will
ruin ones whole appearances horrid
sort of truth, which, like murder, will
out in spite of me. One sees the fun
NEST things. People in distinctly sup
erior garments will sometimes stick
of an imitation jewel, with intent to
deceive" outrageously dyed fur, OBJ
viously machine-made lace, people who
ought to know better, and who in some
cases literally do not know what Of
fence they are committing. Women
have told me that for the life of them
they cannot tell faxed fur from real;
| do not mean the more subtly faxed
furs, but those over which one In
stinctively quotes Yelow-dog Dingo,
and murmurs, what, that cat-rabbit!"
women who seem to have no idea
that the ill-blown sphere or roughly
cut lump of glass is not pearl OF fin
est 'skin," or a diamond Of purest
water; women who will be perfectly
happy in letting their maids put
berthe of eighteenpenny 'lampshade
lace" on rty-guinea velvet gown by
way of doing it up The forty
guinea velvet looks cotton-backed--
that is the tragedy; the common mock
pearls and paste cheaper the good
dress they are worn with the cat-rab-
bit, if trimming a slendid seal-skin,
would make it look the most inferior
'electrict seal" at once.
| To look we'll one must begin at the
very beginning. Just as ones hair
| (unless it be Of that delightful sort
! that looks best bundled up anyhow
and secured with one pin) never will
ego up" properly if the finishing
touches are expected to do all the
work; so one must take pains with
ones appearance all the way through.
You will know perfectly well what |
mean if you think of the hurriedly-tied
ribbon or the carelessly-dr fichu
upon which no amount of endeavor to
get them right after bad start has
any effect Ut is always quicker to
take them off and begin again, is it
not?)
/ It is extraordinary how soon the
habit Of doing the nair we'll from the
first, of putting on every garment
properly, and of devising the right
type of underclothes and the correct
method of arranging ones tresses,
can be acquired These things want
doing we'll always, and in a short time
they almost do themselves.
/ I do not write this sort of advice
/ merely "out of my own head" but out
| of my own experience. I know it is
not easy. You are i'll, you are wor-
ried, you are busy, you are poor, you
are tired, you find it difficult to know
exactly what is the right thing, and
what the right way to wear or to do it.
Certainly I can sympathize with you
in every particular. 1t is an awful
nuisance at times, occasionally for
weeks and even months together, to
have to interest oneself's in ones
outer woman. But it will be ten
times more of a nuisance, because
more difficult and perhaps almost i'm
possible, to bring back lost youth,
freshness, smartness, good looks in
general, when once they have been
allowed to deteriorate. My dear Ia
dies, nine times out of ten you get to
ook old, or fat, or faded simply be-
cause you let yourself do so. 1t is
dreadful bore taking pains with your
appearance when you are seedy or in
trouble or deeply occupied with some
thing else. But it is a much worse
bore to suddenly discover you have
"gone off," and not to be able to
'tcome on again, is it not? l am
preaching again from a recent text,
know, but I do feel strongly on the
subject.
Keep yourselves up as you keep UP
your house and garden. You know
what happens if you let those slide.
1t is Always worth WHILE if only
every woman would believe it. We
talk about this being a beautiful
world, but there is a precious lot Of
hideousness in 1t, and so many are
hideous because they let themselves
be so. Of course, one must take pains
in the right direction, or the result