The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
WHEN UNDER The MISTLETOE.
RULES FOR BEING EFFECTIVE
AT CHRISTMAS.

rne Right Place 10 Hang the MistIctOe
The Frock should Match the Mistle-
toe Girls Eyes n She Should BE
slender, Clear Skinned and Smiling.
Il have been following the mistletoe
rules faithfully, said a pretty girl. You
must do 80 il you want to be effective when
under the mistletoe on Christmas.
The mist.etoe girl has a very fine skin.
II is so nice that she doesn't have to powder
and rouge it. In fact, the girl who rouges
Is impossible from a mistletoc standpoint.
Most Of my mistletoe hangs under the side
lights. l don't believe in hanging it from
the chandelier in the centre Of the room.
TOP lights are unbecoming.
They cast a strange set Of shadows upon
the face and they make h eyes look as
though there we're great bags under them.
II you want to look we'll under the mistle-
toe be sure TO rave your room lighted from
the side. You can hang your mistletoe
from the lights Just the same. and you can
ait on a chair under the lights, even IL you
can't stand under them.
SO I've set down these two rules for my
guidance. Don't use too much rouge and
powder II you expect to stand under the
mistletoe; and be sure to light your room
from the side.
Il rave various other under the mistle-
toe rules. One Of these is TO wear
thing becoming to my complexion.
Match the spots in your eyes is the best
rule for the girl who wants to look bewitch-
Ing. II your eyes are a delicate green be
sure 70 wear a delicate green gown with
a white setting. But IL your eyes are blue,
choose q light blue, something like the color
OF your eyes when the sun strikes them. a
soft pastel blue.
The black eyed girl and the brown eyed
one can take more liberties with their eyes.
They will stand any color.
The under the mistletoe girl always
wears a gown Of pale tone. There 10 m
shtng forbidding about the more pro-
nounced colors.
KNEW Q girl who had an imported gown.
IL came from Paris. where they know how
Deserve up the pale tints to customers.
This girl as she stood under the mistletoe
wore a very pale turquoise linen, an almost
impossible thing; il was so sheer, and IL
vas 50 d~elicately trimmed with embroidery.
u was most effective.
The girl In black may be so alluring
m the pathos Of her mourning that she
sernpts the eye under the mistletoe. But
not 50 the girl In navy blue, in garnet or in
purple. These colors have a depressing
look when seen beneath the mistletoe.
have already pointed out the i'm
portance Of q nice skin. There should be
no treckles.
'Freckles are all very we'll in the summer
tnle. when they accompany a sailboat and
2 tennis racquet; but in the winter time
they are wholly out OF place and particu-
Arly Inappropriate to the mistletoe.
/ have found from experience. added
70 some study OF the subject at home and
abroad, that Tor taking away freckles and
Eeeping them away sour milk is hest. And
mat is why / have a jar Of it brought to me
regularly every day.
pour a fun cup of II in a washing basin
end daub my face freely, letting the sour
milk dry on. It feels rather sticky for a
lev minutes, but IL does my fece and neck.
hands and arms a world OF good.
The girl under the mistletoe must have
pretty eyes, and very few OF US have
those. They don't seem TO- be as numer-
ols as they used to be.
In the days Of the old time love stories
and In the time OF the miniature tho hero-
mes al bad great. soft, dreamy eyes. Thsy