The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-13
FRIGHT KIND OF VANITY" Q. KID
 BY PEERESS
Women Should Make Best of What Good Looks They Have, Says Lady Tree,
By F. A. WRAY, International News Service Staff Correspondent.

London, Dec. 13-How vain may a girl be?
 widow of the famous actor, is trying to answer.
 "A little vanity she says, 'is a dangerous thing to be without.
 '~lhe question is, where pride in ones appearance-fCr 1 cOn1ine my self to that-Degins and whither an overweening belief in it may carry one.
 ITO look her best.'' continues Lady Tree, ito be at her best. to make the most of such gifts of beauty as she may possess, is the duty of every woman, and we will not accuse her of vanity, in it's bad sense, if she does her utmost to carry out this duty.
 ''Vanity, when it is ugly, is often the failing of those who have the least claim to consider themselves worth looking at. It is rarely that real beauty loves to see itself reflected; while certain silly girls who are en- sense-are never tired of looking in their mirrors.
 Raps silly Type.
 '"This is the day, l fear, of another She grew up during the war and elbows her way through the world with her mouth pursed up for whist ling, her gait adjusted for jazzing, her walk an imitation of a manne- quin, her artihci-I silk knees and bare arms defying the elements.
 T should not call this girl vain. She cannot be vain, or she would not be like that. Hence we are driven to the conclusion that too little and not too great vanity is the fault of the young people of the hour.
 '<The crammed-on hat, the slOuch, the stoop, the ungIoved hands, the skinny skirt, the epidemic of brazen- ly ''bandy'' ankles-these cannot be surely be the result of a decision, T will be ugly as cani'
 MOT do I call those vain who do their making-up in public. Surely it should be called the 'unvanity bag out of which in restaurants, street cars and tubes. at dances and dinners and halls at theatres and tennis tournaments, an otherwise charming lady will whip out her mirror, her powder-puff and her Hp-saIve-such blatant assurance that the process will not disqutet and dIsmay the on booker must spring from the very opposite of vanity.
 Vanity and Sense.
 "Yes. vanity. allied to common #susa, is necessary to a. woman and must not be denounced or discour- aged
 ~In my very young days powder, rouge and HpsaIve were unh of People who put on artificial com pLeHons were stared at. laughed at. talked abeut-were almost taboo
 The word manicure was un- known; but exquisite hands, shining
 
 nof. flo walk well, to hold oneself well, to have a back like a black board, never to be seen in society without gloves (except when one took them off at meals(-these were the vanIties, and strictly were they maintained.
 ''The right kind of vanity is to make the best of ones good looks.
 "One of the acknowledged beauties in the great world promised no beauty when she was a child. had scarcely any when a girl; but. having everything in her favor, she made up her mind to be beautiful.
 '-She gave up every indulgence that could coarser her skin, widen her waist; she conquered the longing to stoop until her back was like an arrow; she held her chin in the air until her head upon her throat was like a lily on it's stem.' s Her hair, al ady fair and grow ? ing we'll, became the lovely shining golden crown it is; her eyes, already blue doubled their size and their ex- pression-no one knows why.
 t'She had to perfect degree the right kind of vanity, and by it's means her beauty is as famous as her wit. To her garlands let us bring"