Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-01-01

When ! was asked TO give my sec
ret of beauty | had same nervous,
creeping feeling one gets on open
ing nights, when one Is not sure OF
ones part, because, alas dear read
or, ! have no beauty secret.
Every girl on the stage possesses
some degree OF good looks. but most
OF us have sense enough not TO
pose as great beauties At least we
don't do that TO ourselves As far
as ] can see, the very great beauties
are women who have worked at be-
inc beautiful long time. Take Gaby
Deslys for instance. She certainly
makes business OF being beautiful.
and now that have begun to thinR
about the matter, | may try to do 50
myself and in five or ten years will
have secrets Of beauty, but up to
now, like Topsy, II just growed "
Not having any secrets OF my own.
| shall tell you those OF woman
was talking TO IN the basement of a
great big department store the other
day. She was demonstration some
sort OF a toaster that she had in
vented herself, and she was very
handsome looking woman, who
might have been thirty-flve or so.
She had a good figure. black hair.
natural: fine black eyes, and full
round face with not n wrinkle on II
! had been buying makeup for the
stage, and dropped the bundle in
front OF her stand. The paper
burst. and all the things fell out
she was very nice, and helped mo
PICK them mp and wrap them up
again. and tina, Is how We got into
conversation about beauty. because
all the things in the package we're
to make me look better on the
stage.
These things" said the demon
strator OF the toasting machine. as
she looked a, me with a smile
pointing 10 the rouge and the eye
lash pencil. these things will never
make one beautiful, though they do
create the Illusion OF beauty from
the other side Of the footlights.
III you want 10 be beautiful Won
must think beauty, you must will
yourself 10 be beautiful"
When she said this her eyes flash
ed. and she spoke exactly as if she
we're on the stage acting tho leading
lady ] got Interested because she
felt so keenly on the subject. and I
know that would have 10 write this
article for you, so | though would
get some notes.
! have willed myself TO be beau-
tiful since ] was girl of yo,r age"
said the saleswoman "But was
not a pretty girl. like Won n mt
that In because that Is what she said
though ] don't want 10 flatter my.
self She went on:
i was n plain. awkward ugly
girl, with eyes too big for my face.
ana a mouth hat was Just a slit.
hollow cheeks and an undeveloped
figure but adored beauty. | want
ed 10 be beautiful more than any
thing else In the world, and deter
mined that ! would be as nearly
beautiful as a person with nv limi-
tations could be"
Please tell meJust how YOU be-
gan" ! questioned her. and wished
had a notebook Ike regular
reporter.
To begin with. studied the peo.
pie that J met ricking out those
that were ihc bCs' looking. and
tried 60 find out What their secret
was. In almost every caro tho bo..
looking women we're tho heaithios,
and the happles' They led normal
busy lives. they kept their minds oc-
cupied with pleasant thoughts and
they did not do any of the things
which are destructive to beauty. az
I>found out later.
These destructive things are OF.
ten taken up as fads. One OF them