Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19
WE WOMEN--OUR QUEST OF BEAUTY

have gone back there to visit and had
some woman say to me, Why. don't
YOU know me- And I wouldn't know
her at all But it would be one of
those beautiful girls. And she would
be just shell of thing with angry
eyes and Fuckers all around her mouth
and Il removable complexion; and every
single trace of her original intention
would be gone from her forever-be-
cause she took care of 1t from the out
side only and never gave a thought 10
the personal appearance OF her SOU;
Sisters mine, when we come right
down to facts, the personal appearance
OF the soul has got to receive certain
amount Of consideration from us, or IL
will interfere in a marked and most IN
conSiderate manner with any other per-
sonal appearance we may have at heart.
| think often and often that we so at
this beauty culture crossways we mix
as it were, cause and effect. and from
the merest meretrcious massage We eX-
pect results which can only come from
some sweet soothing of the soul.
] think, anyway, that the best sort OIL
massage is what a woman does with iiet
own mind. The tingertips or sweet
thoughts and the cream of kindly I'M
pulses will, in the course or years, II
seems to me, change all the countenance
that she would care to have changed
She might, it would almost appear. WASH
her heart all soft and sweet ana cream
over night with the waters of sleep, ana
then in the morning pat it all ready LOT
the day with the sunshine of smile
She might encourage her hahas 10 ap-
near most attractive to her family by
not allowing them to mix in things Whlch
are not her business. And she hilsHt
enlbalm in her memory the maxim that
mighty few people care whether "on-
ans hair is properly marceiieo' p,o
yided she tucks the halo OF love care1ully
into her couture.
II seems to me that IL we wouldn't
deliberately set crinkles between our
ewes by peering into our neighbors
shortcomings. nor draw up cur mouths
as il some lady-imp had run draWstring
around them. If we wouldn't sharpen our
noses into perfect beaks capable OF peck
ing holes in the home happiness of entire
neishborhoods, we would have far bet
ter chance to be beautiful than II We
had every particle of cuticle removed
from our countenances by the very new
est process of sknning and let it grow
on again as soft as dear little pink
babys.
What we seem inclined to dismiss from
our memories is that course that
caused the curticle to be so hard in the
first place VIII most probably, if persisted
in, produce precisely the same effect upon
any new skin we can induce long-suffer-
ing nature to provide for us
One of the greatest mistakes, it seems
to me. which we women have been max
ing all down the centuries is in permit
ting to lnger too long in our minds that
most misleading old saw that saws that
beauty is only skin deep.
That is an awful mistake. Beauty is
not merely skin deep: it is far, far deep
err than amy skin woman ever she'd
Beauty, my sisters, comes right straight
through the skin from the soul. This
thing that we have been calling beauty
and doctoring with depilitories is merely
a base imitation and will, the first thing
we know, wear entirely off and leave in
the eyes of our loved ones the homeliest
thing a person ever saw. even though our
lines permit of our wearing the newest
narrowgauee garments and our COM
plexion is better than any rose that ever
bluomed-and more expensive, too.
Copyright, 1911, by Charlotte &. RoHett.}