Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-09
French neautr SECRETS.

The summer girl who wants to be pretty
all summer long should study French
beauty methods. The French woman how
ever beautiful she may be, OF however
homely, holds her looks all day. She is
Just as pretty in the morning as at night,
and at noon as at midnight.
If you ask her about this she will muir
muir something about beauty, hygiene, the
laws of health and the value of cheerful
ness. But, really, 1t Is to her beauty Sc
crets that she owes it all. She has ten
beauty secrets
A French beauty who has Joined the
Newport colony tells the ten secrets of
her good looks in the New York Sun:
1 am beautiful" said this French woman,
because l know 1 am beautiful. l am
descended from a long race of proud
French women. In our childhood we are
taught that we are beauties. That thought
is drilled into US and it never leaves us.
To know you are beautiful is half the bat
tie.
II was early taught to carry myself like
a beauty. And then the art of being beau
tiful was drilled into me.
ANY woman in the world can become
beautiful with the ten secrets of beauty
at her command. When was a child and
steadily on until was IS l was taught
that beauty was an acquired thing.
Beauty comes and goes my nurse said
to me. And l was taught that you could
control its going and coming
1.-THE first of the ten French beauty COM
mandments is; Have a clear skin. No
matter how dark it may be. let it be clear
AS clear as wine, as clear as crystal, as
clear as a drop of pure honey. Let there
~ live
Let your skin be of milky softness.
1.-THE second beauty commandment re-
lates to the hands Have beautiful hands
is a strict command in the French canons
of beauty. Don't let your hands grow old.
Then In succession come these laws:
Keep your teeth white.
Keep the wrinkles out of your fore
head.
Keep your step light.
Keep your voice low and clear.
Keep your chin oval.
Keep your throat slender.
There are other commands, and the most
important is; Keep your eyes bright Don't
use them in the dim light. Don't read while
you rock. Don't let the dust settle in them
and remain there over night. Don't strain
your eyes and don't try to clear them by
rubbing them.
"Cry little every day, II you must, for
women who cry easily always have beauti-
full eyes, but keep them bright, anyway.
1.-THE next of the French beauty secrets
relates to the smile The French woman
smiles a great deal 1t 10 a queer little
smile, and sometimes, like her shrug, 1t
looks artificial But 1t is her stock in
trade. without her smile the French
woman would be far less attractive than
she is.
THE only other nation in the world that
understands the art OF smiling is the Jap
anese. The japanese woman knows all
about the smile.
she uses it on any and every occasion.
She smiles when she meets you in tho
street. She smiles at the table. She smiles
when she embroiders. She smiles all the
time. 1t is not an annoying smile, but a
pretty one.
THE French woman while she does not
believe in red cheeks, is a firm believer in
red lips and to keep her lips red she will
bite them. She viii put alcohol upon them,
she will touch them at night with a good
lip lotion, and she will keep her circulation
good in order that her lips may be bright.
THE French woman will bleach her
checks until they are clear and creamy,
put sue VIII Keep heT ups ItuI lot Sne
knows that red lips set of white teeth and
make the mouth winning.
THE French woman pays the utmost at
tention to her hair. II must be glossy, and
her preference is for dark hair She is less
partial to the light shades and she does not
even fancy red hair. which is the aim and
aspiration of every other American woman
"A French beauty secret is that of hiding
your poor traits. If your ears are big.
cover them with little ear curls. These are
only tiny wisps OF hair. but they can be
coaxed to lie in pretty artistic waves over
the ears.
And the same with the temples. II they
are high and bald they can be coaxed into
beauty by curling the hair upon them SO
that the locks lie in little temple curls
These are easy to manage. If your OWE
hair will not kink in this way you can add
hairpin curls 70 cover the temples.
THE French woman has one beauty
secret which should be known 10 every
woman under the sun. It Is so bewitching
80 fetching. so feminine and so unstudied
II is that OF perfume.
Never does the French woman obtrud,
her perfumes upon you. But she has tn,