Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

stand between her and beauty must he
merely a bagatelle. easily overcome if
She is careful. industrious and devoted.
She is sure that il she had her rights
and the opportunities to which she is
so justly entitled Helen Of Troy would
be. backed entirely off the map and men
in shoals would bow down before her
own matchess loneliness. And, besides
that. she Is going right out this after
noon and have that new masseuse they
all say is such a wonder give her a
thorough facial trea tment.
This desire OF ours to be beautiful has
filled the world with bewildered Dene-
diets, made millions of money for the
mellifuouS-c ooing milliner, promoted the
ingenious inventions of the seekers of
substitute for human hair, fostered the
fashions. shortened the stride, destroyed
birds nests. encouraged industries, and
urged the specialist TO bring to the cheek
OF her customers the unaccustomed rose.
And it has done more TO disturb the peace
Of the otherwise happy home than the
downfall of many dynasties.
As woman surveys i'll the glass her
ideal of all that a woman ought to be
she chershes the notion that as soon AZ
she gets her complexion corrected her
nose Strengthened, the color of her hair
ar,istically arranged. and the natural
hrilliance, we'll the size, of her
otherwise large and liquid eyes improved
upon, all she will have to do will be to
have the lines of her figure brought into
harmony with their original Intentions
When she gets these little matters at
tended TO she will be. she decides, about
right.
And 10 accomplish this great and neces-
sary work she is willing-nay, eager--to
expend almost all of her time and all the
money her husband can be induced to let
go Of
All nature is beautiful. We argue: why
shouldn't we be? And when it is pointed
out that by arriving at the perfect lowell
ness enshrined in the form of every one
of us-if person could only get at tive
are going so to enhance ourselves that We
will not match John any more at all, we
respond that John, being Il mere man.
doesn't matter: that it is a woman's duty
to be beautiful.
And so it is
OF course. it seems. sometimes. as if
it would he almost impossible for the
wish to be, as it We're. mother to its own
accom- pliShment. 1t seems as II. taking
into consideration a collection o. features
strongly resembling those OF a gargoyle
and complexion to which tanned leather
is second cousin. it would be almost too
much to hope. in the few years allotted
TO us here below, TO reach the ideal, and
that heavenly loneliness IS about as
much as we can aspire to.
But statistics Will convince YOU that no
woman was ever induced to embrace this
opinion. And a good thing. TOO. Because
YOU know perfectly well what happens to
a man when You permanently puncture
his vanity. He collapses like depleted
dirigible. And let us persuade you that.
once a womans hope of future loneliness
were fractured, she would, like a broken
stemmed lily, droop and die.
People sometimes endcavor to stem the
tide by stating that in sixty five or sew
enty years "A little beauty more or less
will make no difference Whatever-why
worry forgetting entirely. ii seems to
us the more or less important fac, that
siAty-fiNc or seventy years is about al
the time allotted 10 US in which 10