Show BROWS AND LASHES Care That Will Cultivate Beautiful Adjuncts to thc Eye j Curiously examining the pretty toilet articles that Ho in great profusion on the dressing table you come across a tiny brush delicate and white with a finely chased silver back You wonder at its I purpose What is this for you ask holding it up The owner looks at it for a moment with a thoughtful puzzled expression Suddenly her face clears Oh yes thats my new eyebrow brush she explains i i The disciples of physical culture have anew a-new cult They devote themselves to the eyebrow and eyelash For the possibility ot the brow and lash as a factor in facial expression Is being more fully appreciated appreciat-ed Indeed Euffon the naturalist places the eyebrow next in importance to thee the-e e itself in giving character to the physiognomy phys-iognomy This is partly because he says I lof the marked contrast of this feature to the others of the face The brows are a shadow in the picture bringing its color and drawing into strong relief Eyelashes also contribute their effect when long i and thick they overshadow the eye and make it appear softer and more beautiful 1 It is indeed claimed by many that the I eyeball itself Is incapable of expression I that it is the drooping or sudden lifting of i the lid which speaks These even pass by the dilating or contracting of the pupil pu-pil and the sparkle of the eye and will ret admit that they are able independent of the lid to convey a suggestion of emotion emo-tion Whether this be so or not it is certainly cer-tainly true that the slightest elevation of the under eyelid the expressive onepro IRE I I Ii i j I I I I HEIt LOVELY BROWS duces that languishing look which the Greek loved and which one sees in the face of Venus AVinkelmann says To give an expression expres-sion of gladness or pleasure the opening lof the lids is diminished in order to par I tiallv exclude the excess of those impressions im-pressions whjch make even pleasure painful pain-ful Sir Peter Lely once painted a celebrated ri cele-brated belle of his time who possessed a peculiarly long and languishing eye It I immediately became the style of all fashionable fash-ionable ladies to affect the soft sleepiness I and tender moving look of the picture I Similarly also when a monarch of Turkey j I pxpressod his preference for large and darklashed eyes all the women who i possessed them not went to work to supply sup-ply the deficiency by circles of antimony S HEAD BV REYNOLDS The Turkish and Circassian women use Lcnha for penciling the eyes while those among the Arabs of the desert blacken I the edge of the eyelid with powder and draw a line about the eye to make It ap pear larurer In fact it is whispered that these women of the desert are not the j only ones who make use of this device The SnUnish grand dames squeeze orange j juice into their eyes it is a trifle pain ful at lirst but it cleanses the ball and Imparts remarkable brightness tempora The eyebrow according to the staid and ponderous definition we find in the books is formed of muscle and thick bKinrcox red with rather stiff hairs and resting on a bony ridge above the edge I of the orbit the hairs being arranged somewhat like straw on a thatched roof to catch the gentle dews ot perspiration atperolfng mdeth which may roll from the forehead Another An-other useful purpose is that of protecting the eye from any sudden or dazzling light for at such times they are instantly drawn down Eyelashes are thickest in the middle awl taper toward each end and are constantly con-stantly being renewed Each hair matures in five months and then drops out to be succeeded by a new one Long and silky eyelashes are said to be a sign of gentleness gentle-ness We all long for the large expressive eve of which the poet sings but after all it is not the ball which makes the size of the eye but only the extent to which the lid is distended The almondshaped eastern eye is mainly produced by the length oC fissure between the lids anti I this effect is often imitated by a prolong ing shadow at the other angle made with a fpw touches of the cosmetic pencil I The idcil brows are arched well marked I mark-ed though not heavy and distinctly separated I sep-arated Although indeed the Romans notion of beauty included a small forehead fore-head and united brows Ovid tells us that the woman of his time cleverly painted them so that they appeared as one I The perfect eyelid should form an oblong I ob-long for the large round eye in a oircu lIar aperture is indicative of boldness I I the small circular one of pcrtness Lash es should be long and silky The care of the brows is a very simple I matter At night just before retain take a little pomatum on the tip of the foreimger and rub it gently into the i arched eyebrow Then lightly pass a tow I el over the same This is to promote the I growth We do this every night and in the morning as one maiden jocularly I remarked we have braids In the morning morn-ing the sticky substance is carefully v ashed out with a soft cloth and warm I I water then a little fragrant eau de cologne co-logne is applied and the tiny silver mounted brush comes into play It gently gen-tly pats and smooths the fine hairs into a slender arched line If this be repeated every morning a deficient brow will quickly mend its ways and a wide refractory re-fractory one be brought Into meek submission sub-mission Eyelashes may have their ends clipped with the scissors once in every five or six weeks which is all the treatment they require to make them long and curved The best brightener of the eye is healthful health-ful sleep and just enough of 6HuBERT E A SCHUBERT |