Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-08
How to Develop
Beautiful Arms and Shoulders.

| until mirror was brought and she had
Sazed long and piercingiy at her reflso-
ton.
After that she inquired whether the
whole house had burned down, and ex-
pressed her satisfaction. without much
enthusiasm. however. for the fire do
partment. which had saved everything
but her own room.
That story Is typical Of most Of us
women. for you can say what you like,
it's much worse for a pretty woman 70
lose those "trimmings" whicf. make her
beauty than for her house TO be de-
stroyed. provided there Is fire insurance,
Of course.
We are taught as children that ''beauty
10 ~ beauty does" but beauty can do
much more than usiiness. no matter
what people cay to the contrary.
We haven't yet arrived at that stage
OF emancipation where our sex succeeds
oy brains alone. except In very rare
cases. Brains and charm even without
real beauty win surely win the day, but
I'm not going TO tell you today what
think charm 10,
Today I'm going to continue my tanks
on beauty, mere physical beauty. and az
several readers have written me asking
Questions regarding their looks, / shall
answer them now.
There seems to be quite an epidemic of
worry about necks and arms. Evidently
low collars and short sleeves WIN be IN,
W. ~''7 ihis Tp-in- snd r'rls NJ,
preparing to meet the new styles with
$1,000 .-..-. -.---.- .-.-,. - .-.s
seen before.
Personally don't think ali girls should
wear low Dutch or v-shaped collars in
Discriminatory. The girl with the very
long. rather skinny neck should wear
high well honed collars OF net or lace
especially on the street.
Z When she 10 at home she can wear Lar
collars because the high collar. while n
" much smarter looking, will keen her
neck IRON getting fat She should rph
her neck several times a day with cocoa
butter or some good skin food, and an.
must dress her hair In such q way that
the thin neck and the hoilows behind
the sars win show as little as possible.
a low colffure liz the best, ana IN.
thin-nscked girl must not wear her hair
Perfectly straight.
II nature forgot to put in q curl there
are lots Of ways Of assisting nature With
out burning the house down. as my frleni
Of the trimmings; did. A large. loose
wave and few little curis In thu nan.
OF the neck or low knot will give the
neck better appearance.
The constant use Of cocoa butter as
well a. high collars Is likely to stain thu
neck and give IT a yellow tlnge. I think
lemon juice IS about the simplest as well
as one Of the best biesches.
Another good thing to use is peroxide OF
hydrogen. Pour a little on q piece Of
cotton or cloth and rub the neck with
II once or twice week. and you will find
II good bleach. Used too often. Il IL
likely to dry the skin. Remember that
the beauty Of the neck depends greatly
on how you hold your head
Girls with short. rather full necks
should always wear low collars, no mat
ter what the style. A high collar win
give one a double chin II one is Inclined
10 be stout. and 1t spells the texture Of
the skin Of a very pretty white neck. A
long y-shaped collar viii make the neck
look longer. and at present the long.
swsn-like neck. Ia, tho rage.
All the frocks are made for the swau-
neeked girl. and so even the little poutsr
pigeon has TO initiate the nobler bird and
stretch her neck a. much as she can.
! have covered my allotted space with
out saying much about the arms. thong
. great deal can be said about them,