The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-20

Iedea OF an interview being sdndWiched
into my already crowded schedule. So
YOU found me pulling on the leash, the
collar we'll up around my neck"
What about the beauty culturists
and specialists and things" was Ques-
ton " way OF suggestion.
"Beauty culturists? Beauty specialists?
What do you mean" was the counter
question by way Of surprise.
why. experts IN the gentle art Of
making you beautiful OF keeping YOU
beautiful. Persons who charge 81 an
hour for the privilege Of paving you
over. running a vibrator up and down
your spine, bathing you In cold cream
and strange lotions. scalpinG YOU with
hot irons. How about all these hours
the papers say actresses Of note give 10
their persons? How many messages
do YOU take a day and do you battle in
buttermik or chaInnagne?"
What looked like a contemptuous snir
turned the Greclan nose OF one actress
of note a trife upward.
II hope you are not going to say any
Of that silly rot about me" said Miss
Ferguson. ANY one with reason knows
Il really serious worker has no time FOR
such nonsense. OF course every woman
must devote some time TO keeping her-
self well groomed. That is as II should
he. But az for taking every beauty
treatment that happens along and going
cosmetically insane--the day is too short
Anyhow I have a much more cffec-
tive way OF keeping whatever OF beauty
! may possess and Of improving it.
believe beauty Is matter OF mind. 1t
must radlate from within The beauty
We rub on with rabbits foot or acquire
across the counter is fleeing. Rouged
red lips are easily detected. The im-
tation blush never fools any ono but
the Wearer.
ITO he really beautiful am con
WINGED IL Is necessary 10 think beauty.
To have red lips and rose cheeks We
must think health, read health, do
beautiful things, go to healthful places
This method is much less expensive than
the beauty parlors, which in these times
of limited allowances may recommend
l. To the woman who has never given
IL q trial"
"lf YOU recommend II should say Il
would become an epidemic" remarked
the girl who draws. From her EXPIRES
sion | senScd another convert had been
won to the cause of wishing oneself
right into the beauty ranks.
| confess somewhat Of disappont-
ment. II seemed meet and right
should carry away with me some secret
OF beauty's boudor Think of the thou
sands of women waiting tn hear how
Miss Ferguson keeps her skin So creamy
white, or how Miss Ferguson coaxed her
/, hair TO grow six inches in three weeHs.
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entire coat Of summer tan by n single
application. or how Miss Ferguson
dropped from 80 pounds TO 1875 without
giving up French pastry.
If only might tell the dear credulous
feminine public that Miss Ferguson
rubbed cream Of cucumbers into her
skin every might before retiring and
balanced on her toes before an open
window for half an hour every morn
ing If only there might be something
definite 10 do in the search for beauty
a Ia Ferguson, Here was an oppor-
tunity to endear myself to a host Of
beauty seekers.
Alas and alackadayi A lost oppor-
tunity. must come ont ana tell women
10 think beauty, which, however true
lt may he, is the last remedy the
feminine faddlst would want to try.
However ! am giving II to You exactly
as II was told 10 me. II IL for YOU to
take it or leave IL as You Will.
II is a peculiar brand OF beauty, IL
that of Miss Ferguson. ! saw her the
other night in "Outcast' her current
play. As stage beauty she Is the Same
elusive type she was that morning IN
the sunshine, She is the shadow of
beauty rather than beauty Itself. She