The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-21
POETRY OF THE SMILE
Beauty Required These Days TO Be VyacOuS and Have
Good Complexion.

I'm only smile expert said the
beauty professor to the New York sun
man as she set down her bag and signing
YEARLY. but managing TO smile sweetly
az the same time. I'm "a smile expert.
and my job from day 70 day and week to
week as long as the season lasts con-
sists in teaching The society beauty how
20 smile
1T was all very well IN the Amanda
days. when novelists wrote OF the PEN
sive beauty. for then "a woman could
look grave or gay: but IN these near 1910
days a beauty must smile In vivacity
she must excel the French woman and
in wit the Irish girl She must smile,
smile. smile; but her smile must be ever
varied.
My job is to teach smiling as a fine
art. L call my work the poetry OF the
smile, and when 1 avn through with my
pupils they are ready TO acknowledge
that they can smile. Before that they
were merely trying TO look pleasant.
a smile demands certain things as
beginning. First may be mentioned good
teeth. Good eyes are of some assistance.
and the right kind OF nose helps. but the
most important .thug OF an is the COM
plexion.
"A woman drove up here yesterday in
an auto. I smile wooden, she said TO
me. I caught sight OF myself to-day
when 1 was luuching and my smile fairly
hurt me, it was so stin and set What
shall 7 do2'
81 stood and looked at her for a fun
minute. You are in love- 1 said.
AT this she burst out laughing. as I
knew she would and I took the measure
of her smile. IL was truly wooden.
You must give mp autong.' I said.
and devote yourself 90 complexion treat
ment for a while. ard you must practice
facial exercises and be mrcmitting I'm
facial baths
Il led her into a room which had a sky
light. II was once a photograph studio,
but needing the broad light. ,u-rc4 IL
into account as a beauty bathroom.
tn give you the blue glass ray treat
ment, I said. Now seat yourself ana
take of your stock and neck trimmings
zone assistant was meanwhile warm
ing some cold cream I'm a double boiler
while another assistant was getting ready
the perfumed face hose In few min.
utes 7 had my patient bending over a
washstand while the stream from the lit
tie hose played upon her face which grew
pinker and pinker under the treatment
when she lifted her head her skin was
as though it had been painted with rose
colored dye. The whole counteuauce from
chin 10 hair roots was a blushng red.
Ny second assistant now placed a lay
er Of cold cream upon the lady's face and
third began 20 massage the cream into
the face As soon as a little had pone-
trated the skin 1 took the patient by the
arm and led her into corner where
there hung between her and the window
sheet Of blue glass Here 7 seated her.
You are getting blue ray massage
said l. The patient smiled, and already
was pleased 10 note her smile came
easier IL was not so stiff
The warm blue glass ray treatment
lasted only few minutes. Then came a
rubbing to take out the wrinkles around
the mouth, and finally a sprinking OF
cool water and a cloud OF face powder.
e. co home / said. and bind strips Of
cucumber upon your face. Lac down and
cover your face with layers OF warm cot
ton batting. and when your face feels pill
able-and you viii soon know it ir your
skin improves-get up and take a face
stretching exercise.
May I walk I'm the open air2'
Yes. but only in the hours when there
is the least dust afoat. The best hours
for you TO walk are just at dusk and the
best place is on the roof
But am 7 never TO go out again?'
asked my patient I'm some alarm. 7 shall
become a recluse # limit myself to GU
cumbering my complexion by day and 90
walking on the roof IN the evening.
In a short time your skin viii be so
p!iable that You viii not need TO contin-
We the treatment so strenuOusly. though
there viii never come a time when you
can drop it altogether
well. T instructed her until She under
stood the regime. and for two weeks she
practiCed faithfully. or course. her COM
pexion improved. her skin grew plable.
and her muscles relaxed. When I had
finished with her she could smile: and
not only that, but there had begun 90 De
Gimples i'm her cheeks.
"A smile to be sweet actually requires
dimplcs. I don't mean that n woman
must show them all the time for too
much dimples is as bad as none az all;
peep out now and then there is no perfec-
ton in the smile.
Il teach my patients how 20 show the
teeth without seeming to show them.
smile say 10 them, and roll up your
upper lip as YOU smile. II Is very simple.
II you can't do it naturally you can DO IL
artihcially. Take your finger tips and
roll 40 your upper lip as though you
we're rolling bit ~ velvet Turn the
l.p right up and roll Now smile.'
THE patient smiles and shows her un-
per row Of white even tecth-for I don {
mind saying that I take no patients
whose teeth are not in good white con-
dition-and I tell her to smile again and
again. each time rolling up tine lip. In a
little while the lip rolls Of its own accord
and the teeth show
MY next stunt is to bring out the dim
pies. AS my patient smiles I make q dot
IN tho middle of each cheek
There ia your natural dlmple spot I
say. NOW smile and try 20 dlmpIe right
there
Why. can't dimple right there de-
clared one patient YEARLY after she had
struggled patiently through ten forced
smiles.
You can and must. There is your nat
ural dimple spot. Keep your eye on the
round black dot as you smile and try 90
draw in your cheek muscles to make a
dimple right there
Why have never had a dimple right
there
That is your own fault or the fault
OF your life. IL you had been happy you
would have had dlmples. Now try 10
simulate happiness and see II you can
not coax the tardy dlmples to the sur
face.
u harn had 2 hannY LIE and vat tho