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Show Cava- ' ts.?J ' ? 03 ir" COPYRIGHT A. DJ?o.- L THE MOST FAMOUS ZlVMGBMmY No 195Do You Know.? I 3y Mma. LINA CAVALIERI COME, girls, whatever your age, for it is pleasaut to keep up the illusions of girlhood, though hair be white and skin tending tend-ing to the formation of hundreds of fine point lines, draw your chairs here on the hotol piazza and let us chat of newest things in biiy culture. cul-ture. - Do you know lliat ftiv wrist talk no more of facial massage? No, that is quite obsolete, really far out of date, you know. Now it is face manipulation, or feature building. Some term it face llfiiug. What is it? It is massage Improved, amended, amend-ed, rendered far more bcieutiflc than before. You didn't know that your face is Inclined to slip, did you? It is. and It is as aerious for your face to slip far on 'he toboggan slide of time as it is for the leet to slip on an Icy pavement in midwinter. And face manipulation or feature building build-ing work hard and successfully against th'- tendency. Tho cheek muscles are the chlof sinners In this matter of muscle slipping. The heavy, flat musclcB of the cheeks begin tc slide downward, and unless their course -J arrested the lower part of the face grows heavy. Th chin sinks with Its own weight and the fine, clear cut line of the lower jaw is" lost. In sagging muscles aud in unwelcorno and unbecoming fat. The face that iB falling must be lifted up. Therefore muEt there be strong, heavy, upward strokes from chin to ears, strokes so strong that the muscles tingle and the blood rushes In a flood to the face. If the linos about your Hps are growing deep and gaahllke it is because the cheek muscles are slipping down the sides of the face toward the chin. Strengthen them by strong, heavy, upward strokes. Have your eyes begun to look Biinken in n lake of dark, unhealthy looking skin? That 1b because the cheok muscles are drawing away from them and not giving them their needed support. Strong, slrapllke movements of all the fingers from the inner part of the nose along the upper cheekbones will stimulate tho muscles and make thorn firm. So for the perpendicular lines between the brows that show eyestrain, or worry, brush these away by deep, strong, quick strokes of tho fingers. Thie, raj' friends, ia the face build-log, build-log, or hoisting, for which a great deal that Is favorable may be said. Do you know that tho large, loose, lazy muscles of the abdomen that sag and give the tigure a vulgar, un-lovMy un-lovMy aspect, can be made firm aud hard In a most commonplace way? Doctors have noticed that the washer woman never shows these sagging muscles that so detract from the beauty and elegance of the figure. Why? Because she bloopB over the washtub hour after hour and day after day, and this stooping hardens tho muscles. Musclos In a woman's body that are seldom used and so very weak are those of the back. Gardening develops them. Tho chest is cx-panded cx-panded and the lungs enlarged, the blood purified, by gardeniag. It were well for us all to take to th.9 garden. The morning is the time when we aro most liable to be lazy and to shirk our exercises. Yet they should be taken beforu our bath. Did you know that there aro running ma-chines ma-chines that cm be folded up and hung on your bathroom wall, that jH taken down, take little space on the floor, and yet 'jy hlch you can have a vigorous run. equal to a couple of miles before your plun$ and breakfast? Beauty Questions Answered A. B. C. sends this apparently characteristic letter; "I don't know whether you will regard me as an intruder or not, as I belong to the opposite sox. But if you will answer this question I will never consider myeelf capable of thanking thank-ing you. I f.m six feot one, medium build, but with a voice like a baby, which embarrasses me very much. I have taken two years' singing lessons, practicing the low notes, without benefit. I wish I could kill the voice, stamp it out of existence." ex-istence." I suspect that your trouble Is in large par' timidity. The voice reflects re-flects the oharacter. Cultivate courage. cour-age. Practice deep breathing. Be encouraged by the example of Demoithenes. He had a weak voice, an Impediment of speech; yet he used to fill his mouth with pebbles and go out to the seashore and talk agalnBt the thunder of the waves. F-xerclBe determination and courage cour-age will eventually encourage a weak voice. Go Into the woodB or beside the seashore and rehearse that voice. F. AL writes nie: "I have read your beauty hints in tho Sunday newspaper for a long time and havo greatly profited by them. Now I am asking you to please nelp me. yk "I am a young girl of nineteen IH and for about two years have been jurling my hair. Lately I have noticed that my hair is lifting In front and is getting very thin. Please advise me what to do." I take it for granted that you mean you have been curling your hair with hot Irons. First atop that practice, which sooner or later ruins the hair. If you have been using curl papers stop that , No matter if your hair does look die-rvderly die-rvderly while adjusting Itself to new conditions, don't touch your hair with Irons again. Be resigned to straight hair, which so many pra.'sr. Massage the wholo scalp dally with fingers that have been dipped Into lanollne, but massags longest and most vigorously with larjullne. After a time let this treat-ment treat-ment alternate with any good quinine tonic jH |