The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-14
Dorothy Dix TALKS
The Real beauty Culture
BY DOROTHY DIX
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! Lie Itcdl bSduty Cuiture-S.
The main reason we avoid homely
told ladies is because they are so dull
and such bores. We don't mind a
pretty woman's being stupid, because
we can feast our eyes on her beauty
| and enjoy her as we would a living
picture; but when such a one loses her
looks, she has lost all claim to our con-
Isideration. Nobody cares a rap about
the color of a woman's hair, as long
| as she is entertaining. 1t is only the
/ tedious of whom we demand curls, and
| shining tresses.
! AS a matter of fact, no woman is
really. ugly who is highly intelligent,
and who has a sympathetic and under
standing soul shining out of her eyes.
Anyone who has travelled in the ORR
ent, and seen the women who are
hideous hags~or Jumps of fat, with
their dull, stolid, expression1esS faces,
must have realized that it pays to edu-
cate women just to keep them from
being SO hard on the eyes when they
are old.
And suppose women spent as much
time in putting salve on the cranky
places in their disposition as they do
in rubbing cold cream on their coun-
tenances. How much more profitable
the results would be. After all, a
wrinkle in your cheeks isn't so dis
figuring as a wrinkle in your char
acter.
There are thousands of women who
live in fear that they will lose their
husbands love when they lose their
good looks, and SO they spend their
time and money in beauty parlors. and
are boiled, and fried, and stewed in
oil and massaged, and kneaded to a
pulp. trying to ward off the tell-tale
lines with which time stamps wo-
mans face. And in vain.
But they could get results If they
gave the same amount of energy and
effort to- cultivating sweetness of spirit
for life is a faithful scribe, and it
stamps goodness. and kindness. and
gentleness on woman's face just as
surely as it does temper, and irritable
ity. and discomfort.
Maybe a young man just looks for
color and contour in a girls face, but
an old husband looks for something
else, and no man whose wife just gets
dearer and sweeter every year, and
more suave and easy to live with. ever
finds out that she has lost her beauty.
She looks better 10 him every time
he looks at-her. =
And suppose woman devoted as
much time and self-denial to reduc-
ing her nagging as she does to re-
ducing her figure. Suppose. she made
as great an effort to get back the at
titude she took toward her HUSBAND
before marriage as she does to regain
ing her girlish figure, wouldn't there
De something DONG! On my, ShOufd
say. yes. ss
After all, what does a midd1e-agc
man care whether his middle-age,4
wife weighs a few pounds more or
less? Nothing. A man has got to be
tied to woman by something stronger
than a corset string if she holds him.
What counts with him is a peaceful
home. and an easy-going, reasonable
wife. who can get his point of view on
things, and who is willing to accord
him reasonable amount of personal
liberty.
OF course, it's all right for women
to take care of their beauty and make
| themselves as good looking as they
can. But if they want to get action.
let them devote time and attention to
cultivating their minds and souls.
That's where they will get the lasting
results that pay.
Copyright. 1920. by the Wneele. Syndicate.