Evening star., 1912-07-21

short walk or drive in the open air; then go
home and read for an hour; and then retire.
take at least FIVE shower baths day. There
is nothing SO helpful frequent bathing, l
hold. to conserve beauty and youth.
There was a time when | was misled into
believing that violent exercise, regularly in
dulged in was beneficial. | tried it for
awhile, and found that its actual effect was
quite the reverse. Bag punching, handball,
golf-I tried each of them. | discovered
that thev made my muscles hard; but that,
in accomplishing this. the exercises rendered
my body less 1.-THE and supple. Other women
friends of mine who have tried these violent
forms of exercise for women, that is
have told me that they made the same dis
Coveries did. A woman'S muscles need not,
in fact should not be- hard in the sense that a
mans muscles should be. Firmness and
hardness are two different things where
muscles are concerned. | find that a short
set of tennis, as have said, while violent to
be sure is far more efficacious than any of
the other forms of exercise. 1t induces sup
pleness, adds grace, makes the blood circu-
late freely and run tingling through the
veins. hghtens the stride, and does not like
the other exercises make the body Sandowy
and stodgy.
7 AM now going to make "beauty con-
fession" that will prove to you that am
neither affecting a pose nor attempting to
set myself up as an unreal Peerless Creature.
| believe in eating onions! In the spring |
believe liberal daily dose of raw onions to be
a matchless natural medicine for the toning
up of the system and the consequent ton1ng
up of the complexion. And | have always
practised what | am preaching. Onions may
not be pretty things; but they can make
prettiness to considerable degree Women
will doubt me, probably, when | champion
the cause of the onion, just as a woman re-
porter in Nashville once expressed her doubt
when | told her played fast set of tennis
to keep in trim. To prove to her what | SAID
was true, took her out on one of the local
club courts and beat her three love games in
succession. Then she cried quits and was
satisfied.
Some of the most curious experiences L
have had during my years on the stage have
been with operators of the so called beauty
parlors.' Although have always been firm
in the opinion that woman can no more at
tain beauty by handing dollars over coun-
ter than she can by lying in a Morris chair
and idly wishing for it, the beauty parlor'
people have gone to great lengths to get me
to indOrse their various systems tor the al
legged importation of good looks to plain
women at so much look. The letters have
received OH lIllS SUBJECT, IL pIllllSl llSli III
full, would be revelation to many of my
women friends AS sample, | will quote
one such document that came to me a few
months ago:
MYDEAR Miss RUSSELL.-If you will ndorse
our treatment for beautlfylng women, you Will
gain vast personal advertising, and we in turn
will benefit by the trade such an Endorsement
from YOU would surely bring to 1t would,
as you see, be proposition mutually beneficial.
Our treatment of which you may have heard,
consists in imparting a permanent. healthy
color to the complexion by regular application
of precious. delicate dyes.
| replied to the communication as follows:
l would gladly ndorse your treatment in the
case of Easter eggs; but hardly feel l can do
so in clear conscience far the human face
is concerned
never heard from this particular "beauty
parlor' again. A woman can gain fine
healthy color from the use of dyes just about
as effectively as she could gain a graceful car
riage by rubbing her body with axle grease.
Color is born naturally of health. The opera
tion can most certainly never be accom-
plished in the reverse manner.
The beauty parlor' is a feminine develop
ment of a certain phase of get rich quick
games. Just as men possess the longing to
become wealthy on the spot, SO in many
cases do women wish to become beautiful
quickly. But, alas! it cannot be done. You
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