Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-02-05
A DESIRE FOR BEAUTY
BY NELLIE coNLAN.

being beautiful"
Dear mel" exclaimed her brother.
when did you stop? l can't say that
l notice any difference"
1--WE given up trying to be beauti-
full, of course. l mean" explained Lo-
retta severely. Goodness knows
worked hard enough at it. l bought
all the women's magazines and for a
time l was puzzled what course to
pursue of all those suggested by the
beauty editors. Finally chose one in
spite of the fact that no other beauty
editor agreed with her on two or three
subjects. The only thing about her
prescriptions that really minded at
all was the olive OIL"
"You had to take 1t internally or
externally, or BOTH"
"Well, it's generally useful" said 10.
retta, with reserve. What minded
was getting it out of my hair. 1t had
to be rubbed into the scalp at regular
intervals to prevent the hair from
falling out. That was the idea"
WAS yours loose?"
mo, indeed. but it might bother me
that way, you know. l wanted to be
on the safe side. This editor said you
could save any hair from falling out
If you begin early enough. 1t took me
a good hour the first time to get the
hair in condition to go to bed, and
then 1t was so sticky the next day
that had to have a woman come and
shampoo me before breakfast. That
was the day 1 was an hour late get
ting downstairs"
II remember"
well, another thing recommended
was egg shampoo, which you must put
on yourself in order to have fresh ma.
terials used. It said to rinse the hair
Immediately with warm water, but
when did 1t didn't like the effect"
"Poached eggs on Loretta" com.
mented her brother. What was the
matter with that process?"
IT thought should never get the
tangles out"
"This is interesting. What trouble
did you get into next?"
THE next was sort of funny"
chuckled Loretta. THE beauty editor
advised certain kind of cream for
the face, which l bought over at the
hairdresser's. I used it for several
days without looking any better and
then went over to ask about 1t. The
woman said I'd bought the cream sold
to Automobiles to keep off dust and
tan. Then she wanted me to take
the beauty lotion, but wouldn't.
couldn't stand putting any more
creams on my countenance.
Next I took up regular course of
work recommends by the editor
Every night and morning | brushed
each side of my hair 100 times, max
ing about half thousand strokes in
all, massaged my scalp for fifteen min
utes, spent a quarter of an hour on
my nails, took a bran bath and mas
saged my face very carefully. Every
week had a special shampoo that
took an hour and half, and had a
professional go over all had been do
ing"
Must have cost something"
"Oh, 1t did" moaned Loretta. 81
never got out of the specialists place
without buying a lot of creams and
powders, too. Then, of course. there
were the exercises"
THE what?"
Every night and morning l had to
stand on my toes a certain number of
times, swing my arms up and down
Dor fifteen minutes, touch the floor
ten times when standing, take twenty
long breaths and jump a rope"
. 'Is that what cracked the ceiling?"
queried her brother. 81 wondered"
mo, did it down cellar" retorted
Loretta. "The exercises took so long
chat never was in bed much before
midnight, and l was always late to
breakfast. 1 wouldn't have cared.
bat"
But what?"
well, just now l met that very
frank old Mrs. Cooper, who knows our
ancestors in the days before the flood.
You know herr"
ITO my sorrow. What did she say?"
''She put up her lorgnette and then
she asked me what on earth made me
so peaked She said she never dream
ed that l would look 80 dragged out
when my years began to show. My
grandmother, she said, was a beauty
even when she was as old as /, but
she certainly was disappointed In
me."-Chicago Daily News.
Birth Of the Press Agent.