El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-07

~ white would be beauties who
march up and down the streets
Of a sunny spring day-don't you want
to know how TO be really pretty2 Don't
you want to be-nOt "gaslight" belle
but a sweet girl who can brave Old
SoFs bright rays in the calm assur-
ance that ne is revealing beauty, not
oetraylng beauty secrets2
COmPeIs Sympathy.
Well, then-be natural NatUralness
does not seem TO be the fad Of this
moment, but IL viii have its day soon,
i think. for we have a wonderful eX-
ponent Of natural charm and the charm
OF naturalness prominently before us
now This is Miss VaIH Valli of 'fThe
Purple Road in a New York theater.
As Wanda, the little maid Of Vienna,
Who loved Napoleon Wisely-if too well
Tor his deserving Naln NalH is an eX-
quisite, sympathy-co figure
How do YOU do it2 I asked. How
Go You hold all Of US throbbing and
waiting, as you stand in your simple
gray frOck on the grand staircase in
are magnificent women in imperialiy
gorgeous clothes?'
Naturalness and feeling" began the
girlish star, and then broke off ooh,
Il am so glad" And then we both
laughed at the unstudied exhibition q
her pet "natUralness."
"Ah, but I do believe in naturalness
everywhere Look natural. be natural;
and then the great feelings can find
expression through YOU
The dainty singing actress had
perched herself fearlessIy under THE
glare Of the low swung incandescent
lamp that revealed-but found nothing
sher cOrOnet OF cOpper-toned brown
hair, so plentiful that it is quite suffl-
cient dover of beauty without the adj
dition of a soft pink flushed skin and
great gray eyes And later she told
me her simple effective method Cf
caring for hair and skin; true beauty
secrets-tiu you know how!
Ellen Terry taught me to make
up, i don't use pink and white glar-
ing high lights. but the bronze, brown
red tones the men Of the stage en-
plOy. This is so much more like the
tones of the human skin. You see. to
look natural on the stage one has to
use make I'D as the extra ounce OF
the lights. That is not needed on the
street-though I must confess to a verv
earnest affection for my powder puff.
As a finish-tO dust off the little shine
from the active, oil glands of a healthy
skin powder is Invaluable I think"
But how keep the skin healthy
when grease paint and rouge must be
applied so Often2" I asked
A Real skin Food.
There was a low thrOated little
English laugh. 81 know wonderful
skin food or tonic or whatever you
call it over here. SOAP and water.
The best Of soap and plenty of water.
Grease paint and rouge have been
going on my face since I was seven.
for then little ValH doubled the first
name she had ben given in honor Of
a dear uncle and good st. Valentine,
whose birthday was just three DAYS
from hers-and went on the stage.
have been putting stage make up on
for 16 years"
'Soap! On your face2" I excIaimsi.
"Ratherl Heaps of it. scrub and
scrub and then go after any straw
dust or rouge with a bit Of good
cream-and then water. water. first
quantities of hot and then dash or
two Of cold"
you are truly a water baby aren't
you? said the interviewer. making a
mental note to acquire just such a
skin if water plus soap could do it.
Indeed. yes My hair too wash
1t once every week. and I don't crinD
or wave. brush and brush It'll every
hair is alive and then. since it's all
soft and clean. it looks we'll"
And il looks marvelOusIy well-sis-
tiers Of crimps and marcel waves AMI