Show 1 1 1 anity Is ls the Great Great t I Preservative of Women i I I 1 By By Nixola G reel Smith reeley-Smith Smith y-Smith I Atherton's new book f L r vIng Present there is a chapon chapon chap- chap on on the middle aged woman woman- woman which whIch that to Sains a Ins me a casual reference which comes to every I ia arU who ho has had the wisdom to tober lher ber vanity alive time since any- any kh has been been a long g q s sane ne was said to women I flail jaU ali the gifts of fortune to woman My uty brilliancy amiability vanity Ism is ism m ast t to to be valued for vanity alone I pr preserve serve and increase the others fanity r by the way has come up in world now that the pall of purism puri purl sm which overspreads America is nning N ro lift about the edges that edges that h Atlantic 1 and Pacific coasts To- To I children hIldren are told that no longer to Is only slightly less than Uhan tb n to be wicked I was the pleasing custom of our 1 to discourage the saying pleasant personal things A little was never to be told that she was ty ti ty Frivolous preoccupation with I Wor complexion or other attributes I fresh m made de to be was I discouraged A hats hat's purpose J solely to protect a woman from the I leniencies of weather Garments elto iello sinful bodies The cover pos- pos Von sion lon of beauty was almost a con- con tion of sin And for a woman so to admit the blight was to the crime Even today In conI con- con I I yative circles her esthetic sense her critical faculty are supposed to Ifer Instant paralysis wh when n she looks ier er own face In the glass etto possess beauty one must deI de- de I hit It The woman who has said to toI self I am beautiful Is nearer by byI much to beauty And if she l keeps I saling sating it Into the fifties and sixties at atthe the same time does her best to toI toI I true she will remain so blithe the beauty dies but she never renders And in the face of her herr erb r defiance Time like a gallant gentleman makes way for her I. I pay no attention to time r. r Is no such thing really Time st an abstraction like the Infinite h I remarked last week of finance to he hear r you say there is no 1 thing as time to a business man mant I a note to meet he replied good t Time doesn't seem a bit bita Want a abstraction to him tw r should beauty take Its laws I Beauty Is poetry made Sand Taud poetry is the highest form of ani e expression To be a great I ln ln ty Is s one way of being a great greaty greata I Trinity a ty y is the preservative of beauty desire to square public opinion with their own that mal makes es great men and women The woman who has lost her vanity I her pride in the lines of her figure Inthe Inthe in inthe the bloom of her face has lost the I motor power of her life unless she is a strong impersonal truly great and I appalling person who holds herself above su such h things As a matter of I fact it is impossible to be above beauty but it requires no c Tort Cart at all to be below it In a countr country house recently I came caine upon a fellow guest a very beautiful woman as she was combing her hair Her husband had sailed for France in tn command of one of the base units and she had not ceased to weep since she received his farewell letter from a transport As she arranged her long chestnut hair I noticed that her face was turned I away from the small mall mirror of her het dressing dressin table Dont you want to come over oyer in my I room where there is a pier glass glass' I I suggested hoping to cheer her up INo j I No she answered liquidly her voice and her eyes brimming to together etherI ether I shant shan't bother to look at all What's I the use use The use of keeping leeping yourself alive I answered of continuing to look like I a woman worth dying d ing for Do 00 you know I intend to have a mirror set InI Inthe in inthe I the top of my coffin and to have a I powder puff within easy reach so I Ishall Ishall 1 shall make decent I Ithe a appearance when the angel Gabriel sounds the last call for judgment day The Chinese I added bury all sorts of beautifying things with their loved ones rich ones rich rolls of brocade jars of gold and jade and ivory ornaments Among the well to todo todo do these things are real among the poor they are made of paper for every copper must be saved to feed the living living liv liv- ing and it Is hoped the dead w wont won't nt be too critical of their gifts j My friend listened with an absent I look I was not sure even that she had heard me but when I 1 ceased she spoke And now her face looked eod at atme atme atme me from within the mirror j i Tom Torn brought me a beautiful jade i necklace when he came back bacle from I China after the boxer boier rebellion s she he began meditatively but Ive I've never I worn it because I thought green would make my skin look yellow What do do I you think I. I Where is it I asked Let me roe I see how It looks on you She had brought four trunks and she spent a feverish half hour going through them in a search for the I necklace Finally it was found tried on admired the sort tort of gown that I would enhance its loveliness discussed discussed dis dis- cussed cussed cussed- 1 i I I believe Ill I'll have my mv picture I |