The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-07


 she was positively untidy.
 "As a matter of fact, she was not z fair sight to gaze upon. Her eyes were intellectual and her face of the type whct we call strong. but she wasn't an attract i've woman.
 "Her case was little discouraging fol the reason that she had so thorougly gone to seed. She had washed her hail in the wrong manner for years, so that it was dry, gray. dull and stringy. Her other features and her clothes were equally wrong
 "I began right at the top of the head She told me that she wanted to address a meeting that next evening and that any improvement mace in her appearance should be visible at first sight to an audi. ence accustomed to seeing her in the old guise of dowdiness She wanted to strike them as a pretty woman.
 q gave her the impressionistic treat ment, and l am safe in saying that sshe gave her friends a shock. We shampooed her streaky gray hair and after washing it we merely shook it dry without touch ing a comb to it. Then we parted 1t of and rubbed oil into the scalp.
 While this was soaking in we waxed the hair in the new deep London waves which are so heavy that you can lay your finger in each. They looked wonderfully natural and they gave the head that re- fined, aesthetic and artistic look produc- ed by the real natural waves.
 If waves are big enough and deer enough they will look natural. It is the little light, frizzy wave that looks forced, We laid this woman's hair in great St. Cecilia waves, which we tossed back over the 1860 pompadour, such as you see in the war time pictures There was the suggestion of a parting, with the waves rolling back on either side.
 ''The effect was wonderful, but moi more so than the magic produced by a band of black velvet with which we strap. ped the front of the pompadour 'Then we took hold of her neck, which was in a pathetic condition. She had banded it with a tall, tightly boned and hooked stock until the skin was like parchment. Yellow and wrinkled. Any neck will get this way if too tightly tied up
 ITO reclaim a neck in one day might seem impossible; but If you could have beheld the steaming the oiling the scrub ping, the pinching and the massage oi that neck you would not wonder at the result. The skin fairly woke up. Wher We began it had a lifeless look, but when we finished it was pinkish. The next day it had a pretty creamy tone.
 "When 1t came to her gown we advised her to get something new and beltless The woman of today is fortunate in that she can wear stunning gown all in one piece, with unbroken lines from the bust down. Her figure can be fitted ant L -t.4 l. a sharply defined belt line. It is artistic and the drawing room woman is realizing 1t more and more.
 ''When we had finished with our suf. frage lady we could hardly get her away | from the mirror.
 T used to be an awful example, said she, I knew it. but did not suppose | could be helped. I found out '-y mistake l and now I'm quite a beauty Indeed she was, for no one notices features wher ! the general results are so good. "The suffffragist who is coming thi. morning wears big, broad, fiat shoes witt which she can stamp upon the floor anc r she carries an umbrella of impossible variety with which to pound at proper moments. l had a good look at her and confess that I've been awake nearly al night studying her case.
 "She has good features, so I'm going tC give them a chance At present they art masked behind a thousand wrinkles Tn l going to put French harness upon hel face to take away the wrinkles 4 l French harness consists of a number O 1 bands of linen half an inch in width ar ranged so as to cover the most importan | and the deepest of the wrinkles
 My customer has a complete set of in l tellectual wrinkles. There are two whicl go right across her forehead from templ to temple. I shall prepare two wide strap to cover them.
 "Then I shall want a wide piece to 2, down each side of the face to take in tn parentheses around the mouth. They ar deep and trying and they come iron thinking steadily upon one subject.
 Then there are the queer littl | wrinkles around the ears and these talk | another strip of linen. The face is col, | creaned and the linen harness is put ol and drawn tightly. It Is worn for tw, hours, and in most cases the improvement | is instantaneous.
 "Of course don't like to mention bath | to an already neat and refined woman but really my patient is in need of beauty bath and have a prescription al written out for her.
 Tt has long been in the recipe bool | of the Queen of Italy. The foundation i a quart of melted ice and to this is adde, | a teaspoonful of borax and as much pow dered oatmeal as will lie upon littl coffee spoon When this has boiled it i all strained into jar in which there i big lump of orris.
 Just before the beauty bath a quart o water is boiled and poured upon a table spoonful of soap jelly and to this foam. mixture Is added the beauty preparation My suffrage woman will have a skin tha | is peachy after this bath
 ''The size and position of the belt lin | trouble most women who are striving t, be beautiful. Either the belt line is to, big or it Is in the wrong place. A grea | French artist in dress says the belt lin is rather high and of only medium size This means great and particular slender ness on the part of the owner of tn, belt line and 1t also means eternal wig lance to keep down the weight.
 How is it that so few women have at tractive hands? Is it that the hands arr lean or are they merely awkward? M, advise to all women who are not SUE