The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-21

The idea is not so much tine taking out
Of wrinkles as the softening of the face
muscles.
Here are my smile hints. The first is
to have a good mirror placed where vour
smile can be studied There is no need of
smiling unless You can see how YOU look
Try smiling with your teeth together
II may seem a trinc forced AZ first. hut
YOU will admit that lt shows OFF your
teeth well
When you smile open your lips widely.
hut don't open your mouth-that is. your
jaws. Il isn't pretty TO show the inside
OF your mouth to your audience.
Hold your chin mp when YOU smile.
throw back your head a trine, curl your
upper lip back if YOU can. and close your
teeth II YOU can do IL successfully
Don't have q crooked smile a crooked
smile means a twisted mouth. and this
means that there are missing teeth some
where. Keep your smile straight il you
want a young-lookins mouth.
Rub your cheeks upward each day: IL
IS great help when you are learning 20
smile Take the palms OF the hands. press
them upon Che outer edge of the jaw
sage TO keep the cheeks round and plia-
BILE
Plump the cheeks once a day and use
the new pumping method. Hang a blue
GLASS in the window and In front OF il
spread the cream on your face and rub it
I'm with a rolling motion round and
round and round Ia little circles.
THE forehead controls the smile 90 a
great extent. II must be smooth ana
gracious. How can a furrowed forehead
go with a smile? III there are forehead
wrinkles, rub across them and use the
half moon massage upon them
For fear you may not understand the
half moon treatment. I viii say that Il
requires the cold cream tinted TO match
the skin Tho brunette must have an
ollve-COlored cream, The medium blond a
cream-colored lotion. while the silver
blond may use the pure cream OF milk
quite white and sweet. Then comes the
massage
'The fingers are dipped i'm the cream
and are placed on The forehead at n point
right over the nose and between the eye
brows. With n long. deft sweep they are
carried over the forehead I'm a crescent
shaped motion. II is tAe half moon mas
sage because of it's sweep and shape.
III artistically done, the fingers I'm de-
scribing the half moon viii touch every
wrinkle in the forehead. IL IS the best
of an known messages. but to be sue
cessful it must De done by your owu
hand. An assistant cannot describe the
moons effectively.
The virtue Of a smile Is it's youthful
ness. and no smile can he fresh and sweet
unless the skin is sweet also. The com
plexion must Doe absolutely clean. This
is. I know. in direct contrast 90 the ad-
vice which has it that the face mus; not
know the touch Of water, but I'm my own
experience not only water. but a great
deal Of soap is necessary. T have a sup
ply Ct powdered soap and use il freely In
making q warm soap jelly.
'I want to say upon the soap question
that no two faces seem 90 Ike aNactly
the same kind Of soap jelly. Z advise my
patients 90 ind a soap that agrees with
them and to cling 10 o.
Il wonder II women appreciate the
beauty of the complexion itself. 1 doubt
a. Most women seem to regard the face
as merely a vehicle for powder and
rouge eyebrow pencils. and stucco work.
but my own personal opinion is that the
complexion itself. bare and clean. fresh
and pink is one OF the most attractive
sights in the universe.
"A successful smile requires some se-
renity OF soul, but this IS another branch
OF the subject 7 tell my patients to re-
lax the mind 20 Doe sweet OF spirit, and
the smile viii come easier. 4 serene soul
makes for good complexion. for sercn-
ity means EoOd digestion. and upon
good digestion the skin depends