Evening star., 1944-05-02
Growing Up Prettily

Every mother wants her daughter
to grow up to be pretty-and
whether or not she does is in great
measure up to mother-not so
much in the particular features
she may have willed to her daugh-
ter as in the beauty precepts she
teaches her. Except in the case OF
a few rare beauties, the main diff
ference between pretty girls and
plain girls is q matter of know-how.
There are lots of tricks to the
beauty trade and the girl who grows
up pretty is often the one who
started practicing young. In a
word, practice makes pretty.
The first rule of beauty Is cleanli-
ness. A girl can 60 a long way on
the road to loveliness simply by
welding enough of We olde soap and
water and you can instill in your
sprout early habits of cleanliness
simply by making 1t pleasant.
Sweet-scented soap, for example,
and her very own washcloths and
towels (perhaps with embroidered
chicks, ducks and her other feath-
cred friends in a border) will make
her love to wash-a lifelong beauty
asset. Special talcum just for her
also sweetens the process, at the
same time saving your bath powder,
which the young love and waste
with abandon.
In spite Of the best efforts OF
mother and daughter to keep small
faces scrubbed and clean, when q
girl reaches teen age, blemishes
have a way of popping out to mar
her beauty and ruin her self-con-
fldence at an age when she needs
1t most. There's a special medi-
Gated cream designed especially to
soothe and help heal such mild skin
blemishes Of external origin. It's
a hygienic paste that's a pretty
pink, pleasantly cooling and which
helps to speed the surface-clearing
process after removal of blemishes
For you mothers and older girls,
they say it has a way with con-
spicuous pores and will aid in keep
ing compilations dehcately fresh If
left on overnight In the danger spots
on forehead, chin and around the
nose.
Getting back to your kindergar-
tener, when she starts playing with
your manicure set, that's your cue
to get her one Of her own. Even
the very young can learn to keep
nails clean and push back the cuti-
Gle. Later on, If she starts biting
her nails, treat her to occasional
professional manicures to encourage
her In trying to keep her nails and
hands pretty.
The knack for doing things with
her hair is probably glamour girls
greatest asset and you can train
small hands and hair In the way
OF beauty by giving your tot q
pretty comb and brush and teach
ing her how to use them. From
six months on, any child loves q
mirror, SO very early in life put
one at her own eye level and show
her how to make the part and even
roll up the front curls. OF course
this doesn't relieve you of the re-
sponsibility Of nightly brushing OF
hair. That's beauty must" fol
all ages. Brush 1t thoroughly every
night with a good, firmly bristlec
brush that gets out all the dust and
stimulates the scalp. A small child's
hair is naturally thing of shining
silken beauty and II you teach her
to care for 1t, there's no reason why
your daughter can't start out In
front in the glamour sweepstakes
with the beauty advantage of lovely
hair.
In general, simplicity is the best
policy when it comes to a growing
girls use of cosmetics and creams
and the soap and water routine Is
best. However, there's complexion
milk that won't hurt her tender
skin and will probably help it at
this time Of year when growing
things who love the sun sometimes
suffer from too much of old Soils
rays. You can show your smallest
beauty how to pour out a dimes
size quantity into her hand, rub
palms together and then smooth
over her face and throat. Not only
Will she have fun playing grownup
but her sun-parched skin will soak