| Show CARING FOR ONES I PERSONAL APPEARANCE Importance of Keeping Ones One s Self Always Attractive O many women are silly about SO their appearance in one way or another that many have come to regard the subject of Good Looks as frivolous and anyone anone consid considering considering considering ering them as given over to a foolish and senseless vanity The proper con consideration consideration consideration of good looks means several things which are the foundation stones of success in life In the first place they mean health for seldom can one who is sickly be In the next place they mean attainment of oi a better place in society for good looks are pleasing to everybody and the possessor of them themis is a sight and more eagerly sought for companionship Indeed at first they count for more than intellectual and moral qualities and all aU that tones nes to make up that thing t bg which we nJ character Good looks enhance Wiese diese qualities more than is ic i realized Importance cf of Good Goed Looks They also have a great weight wei ht in making a business success of life in inthis inthis inthis this relation being termed a pleasing personality Good looks have exalted the lowly to a place among the wealth wealthiest wealthiest iest have even seated their possessors posses ors upon thrones Therefore one should realize their importance and try to at attain attain tain tarn them But so many women other otherwise otherwise wise vise sensible do not understand of what good looks consist and are un tin unspeakably unspeakably tinS S foolish in in regard to them Women are silly about their hair If Ifa a few gray hairs are re seen they feel that thata a calamity has overtaken them and will vill do anything to get rid of them They bleach their beautiful hair with chem them chemicals chemicals heals to a faded yellow which not only Destroys the hair but makes them look haggard and old not appreciating the fact that the tones of the complexion change with the hair and that by such artificiality the whole of natures color scheme is thrown away awa Polly Poliy of Artificial Coloring Artificial coloring of hair or face de detracts detracts detracts tracts from the appearance Those who detect it and most generally it is ap apparent apparent apparent parent feel that the one who uses such things is foolishly vain and silly Sill and given ghet to deceit It has a counterfeit ring Those who do not recognize the cause feel that something is noC no just right with the person but they cannot tell what Many are disturbed by a few pimples which come on the face Imperfections Of jf the skin usually mean that some something something thing is wrong wron with the digestion and attention should be paid to it because it is necessary to look Jook after the health but these exaggerate their trouble out of all proportion Others are silly when wrinkles v come in the face Nobility of Wrinkles Generally such are lines of character which come with the lapse of time If the character is right lofty loty generous and noble wrinkles add dignity tp to the face but if they come from ill will ill humor fretfulness and envy they arc are ugly wrinkles that can only be gotten rid of by a t change of heart and disposition disposition disposition tion and no amount of cosmetics can an cando cando ando do any good The silliest of all aU practices which women employ in in the hopes of improving improving improving ing the looks is that of tight lacing One should always strive to appear neat and tidy and not sloppy but how can canone canone canone one think that she looks better by re I the waistline an inch or two is ismore isI ismore I more than I can tell tellI I Danger of Lacing The one who laces pays for her in inanity inanity inanity anity by bodily discomfort from the pinching by serious injury to her in internal internal internal organs which after a while are pushed out of place by indigestion be because because because cause of pressure on the stomach She cannot exercise or walk properly The only wonder is that so many women can endure the tightness of their cor corsets corsets corsets sets and keep as well as they do Women have an idea if they screw their feet into shoes which are a size or two smaller than what they should wear that they arc are improving the looks of their feet Who ho knows or cares what size of shoes a woman wears or even gives it a thought But the fact that her shoes are tight is borne in upon the wearer with a torturing insist insistence insistence insistence ence which half cripples her Equally silly is the woman who wears the high heels placed halfway under her ber foot to give the appearance of a short shoe or slipper She cannot walk w lk properly she topples along her feet are misshapen by bringing all thi th weight to bear on the ball of the foot spread spreading spreading spreading ing it at the joints and causing bunions It was thought that our grandmothers were silly because of their dress many years ago but the fashions of today are even more to be ridiculed The French a century ago called these styles which are arc in vogue today incredible Modem It is indeed incredible that women will wear through the coldest winter weather lace sleeves to cover the arms and md only a thin covering over their bare necks that they will go in the streets with pumps mere slippers with high heels and thin lisle or silk stockings covering their feet and legs that they will pile on their heads monstrosities of hats with crowns so large that they deprive the figure of any sense of pro or brims so broad that they can r not sit beside one without inconveniencing inconveniencing their neighbors or without dan danger danger danger ger of inflicting injury upon them Oh Ob no Good looks are re not en enhanced by silliness and lack of sense in dress Taste in dress adds more to the appearance appearance than can be calculated The dress should be distinguished by appropriateness appropriateness appropriateness to ones station in in life to j I daily occupations and associates by its becomingness bec and nd by its refinement of style I |
