The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-03-10
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No Monopoly
OF Beauty
ELLINGTON DENIES IN
THIS ARTICLE THAT HER PRO.
FEssloN CONTAINS THE ONLY
EXPERTS ON LovLINEss.

especially quaIIHeu W l'OSe nVtyie wv
men newspaper readers as beauty eS
perts.
For that matter" she says. no 80.
man is justified In assuming the abiis
ity to guide others to beauty" sheI
tsays further, in one of the current
magazines in an article entitled. "Ths
| Mad Search for Beauty:
when one picks up the daily news
papers nowadays, ones first thought
on reading the woman's Rage is that
the dramatic schools must have added
new course OF study 10 the currl'
culum. think It was Charlotte Cush
man who said that to be an actress
one must have logical mind, nerves
as taut as steel, hut a heart big
enough to sympathize with the whole
great world Besides, one must have
! acquired knowledge Of fencing
painting, sculpture, dancine and liter
ature.'
To-day the woman who would
achieve newspaper notice as an act
| ress must he beauty specialist. as
we'll. Apparently she must know OF
every beauty Ill TO which women are
heir, and she must write as though
she had taken a course in therapeu'
tics and hygiene. the requirement Of
which would have used so much OF the
time that she could not by any posi-
hilfty have given moment TO her
supposed chosen profession.
Actresses have no open sesame toI
the vaults where the secrets of bear"
ty are stored, and they are much like
other women in their care. OF them
selves. They do the things they ought
not to do, and do not do the things
they ought to do. If they wear tight
shoes and their feet hurt them, they
go to chiropodist. II the need a mas
sage or a Turkish bath or a shampoo,
they 90 where they can he obtained
They don't learn to do these things
for themselves, for the clever ones
know that one profession Is enough.
"The truth Of the matter is that no
Iactress-or any other woman-"can i'm.
part the secrets OF beauty to another
any more than the rich man can i'm
part the secrets OF business success to
some other man. It is something
every woman must find cut 70" her
selr-7f she can. The method is DIFF
ferent in each case.
Beauty is in the eye OF the be.
holder. One of the most famous beau
ties, who, in telling her secrets" said
one very true thing when she launched
the epigram Many an ugly woman
has not known that she was not beat
tifll. because some good man has low
ed her and lied to her (Stranse how
loving and lying usually go in pairs
IF every man does nor think the
woman he loves is beautiful, he makes
her think she is beautiful. Usually
Cupid has pretty way Of making him
see thorugN roseacolored glasses, and
every woman believes The man she
loves. And II either Of hcm wants to
Keep OH loving and heing loved they
both have got TO keep up those hatter;
ing little lies.
1T is not because man knows that
his wife has grown fat and ugly. but
that he tells her so, that women are
perpetually seeking the fountain of
youth and Aocking to the obesity
cures. NNl"'Sl
personally. | do not think that
beauty is so much to b" desired as
many other things. II Is the most
ephemeral OF all the qualities that en-
nance the charm Of women.
"f think that II most women would
dismiss lot Of this silly trying 10
make themselves over. aud turn their
attention to making themselves inter
psting, they would be more popular.
And isn't it popularity we are ali
after?
Magnetism. temperament, beauty
are all born in us and with us--rolling
ten thousand times over the drawing
room floor will not bring item 70 us;
neither will rubbing the skin of our
foreheads or screwtng our mouths IN
10 rrrnes and rrisms gtyeNs a strange
hold on age, who delights in making
lines where we once had'dimples. NJ
We stop to think sanely, We will know
that the lines are better tnan the dim,
pies anyway, because thu lines mean
something"