South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-11
BEAUTY EVOLVES
OUT OF COMFOR
So Declares Louise Dresser
When Asked For Secrets"
Color Study and Charm
Helps.

I used TO wonder If the man who
wrote "Oh, You Great Big Beautiful
DolT' had visions of Louise Dresser
the while the Muse burned-but that
was before 1 had talked to Louise
Dresser. For no great big beautiful
doll is the stunning blond Louise, but
a sane, thoughtful and altogether very
womanly woman.
Beauty is a somewhat over-rated
asset of the feminine bank account"
said Miss Dresser in answer to my
plea for secrets. Whenever any
one starts a discussion of il, 1 think
of a friend from the west, who
went abroad TO feast her eyes on the
beauties of Westminster Abbey and
the Italian lakes and all the eager
| little knowledge seekers in her home
town kept writing TO her to be sure
to find out the latest methods of flesh
reduction and hair retention and COM
plexion Identification. Well, 1 be-
lieve in comfort-C-O-M-F- FORT
and health and calmness and living
one day at time and charm of man
ner: and if out Of that combination
beauty does not just naturally evolve
something is radically wrong with the
woman who is practising my five car
dinal virtues"
Miss Dresser was donning the Ar
verne Sack Of Ruth Snyder, the
charming stenographer. who delights
Potash and Perlmutter" and the au-
| diences of Cohan's theater-and with
final settling flirt of the big butter
! fly black hat. she herself settled down
to pay strict attention to me-and
Beauty!
Her Pet Hobby.
Lets discuss your five cardinal
| pOints-One extra for that compass,
-, I,
of loneliness"
"All right" said obliging Miss
Dresser. I'VE begin with my very pet
| hobby - comfort - MORT.
| Please have that put in the biggest
type there is-for it is so important.
! Comfortable shoes-nO more strained
! expressions that say as plainly as pos
! sible, oh, if / only last til l get
I home and into comfortable slippers
! Now. why not ear comfortable shoes
/ all the time-your feet will only bulge
out somewhere if they are compdessed
into triple a when they yearn for
| the sanctuary of a G. Comfortable
clOthes-nO choking collar bands or
/ waist bands-Or stiff, StraitJacket cor
J sets, when a pliable 'tricOt will so
much better keep the natural line of
] the figure with the somewhat sloppy
/ look the average woman gets when
she tries to appear absolutely UNI
! corseted. Your disposition will be
sweeter if you have not the achingly
painful irritation of clothes that bind
and too strongly remind you of their
| existence. Your expression Will be
more charming, your general health
will reach a higher Standard-and you
| will be so much better able to enjoy
! life and meet trouble with smile if
you will just do away with the han
| dicap of physical discomfort.
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modest when they falT~into the power
| of the woman who used to make the
/ tailor made suit suggestive, but prop
erly designed and worn they are love-
! ~. graceful, modest and COMFORT
able.
From comfort to health is simple
! step, with outdoor life and senSibly
! chosen food to aid and abet in the
! search for preservation of health. II
you are comfortable and healthy you
can easily cultivate calmneSs, and if
you are calm you won't let yourself
| get fustered and furried about what
| happened yesterday or may happen
| tomorrow. You will learn to just live
one day at a time and to get all the
| joy and work and sweetness possible
in and out Of the day.
| Then. with the first four points
| mastered, you will feel so young and
| happy and 'springy'-inStead Of all
| shaken down INTO rul-Ildl IL WON
| be a very difficult task to cultivate
charm of manner. And that is the
greatest aid to beauty / know. You
| never realize that a plain looking
woman is almost lovely if she is
charmingly courteous and sympa-
| thetic and sweet-manneredly uncC n
scious of herself and interested in
you. Charm OF manner and becoming
| clothes bring out a clear COM
plexion os cast a merciful glow over
| dull one-and a homely woman
/ sometimes manages to locke more at
tractive than her pretty sister who
is wearing the particular color that
made some other girl she knows look
smart, but that is guaranteed to
make her look her worst"
Try the three "C's"-COMFORT,
Color-study and Charm for the &C
quisition Of the one big B-that is
| for Beauty. II will really pay you
| to try, for Louise Dresser, lecturer
practices exactly what she breaches.
LILLIAN LAUFERTY.