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Show Tou stop working and where are you? "On the other hand, a moderately good-looking girl can put on a lit tie rouge and a ravishing gown and look adorable. If In addition she can fio anything at all above the average the world applauds her. It is surprised to Ond Ithat she has anything of the ordinary ordi-nary In her make-up. She has to work in order to make a success, and her work keeps her young. Doing, going. - accomplishing give her vivacity and charm. She has no time to worry about getting old or losing her beauty, and no beauty to worry over losing, and so the wrinkles forget to come, and hr eyes grow brighter with every triumph." I BEAUTY IS A HORRIBLE CURSE I 1 SO SAYS LILLIAN RUSSELL 1 aside your straight front and sing, "Oh, what's the use!" see Miss Russell settled herself a trifle more effectively in her broken chair, gave a sly pat to the little curl that protrudes beneath her .yellow pompadour pompa-dour at just the most effective spot, and loosened her furs so that the blue chiffon chif-fon waist and the dazzling brooch gave a more effective note to her costume. "If I had to start all over again." she went on. reflectively, "I would rather be Just fairly good looking than than anything else. "It Is a great deal easier to attain beauty, if yon haven't got enough of it. than it is to keep it if you have too much of It. Nothing; on this good old earth keeps woman young and makes her interesting except work and a pretty girl won't work.. Oh, I've seen them! I've watched them shoot up and come down with a thud. I've seen them come Into the chorus with all the world 'be lore them and Just as' good prospects "There Is nothing so dangerous or so useless as beauty; there Is nothing so dreary. o disheartening, so pathetlo as being beautiful; there Is nothing so disgusting as a beautiful fool." ' ; It was LllUan Russell who spoke; Lilian Lil-ian of the golden hair, the alabaster skin, and the superb figure, merely to gase upon whom the world has been paying top prices for twenty years. She was sitting In a wing of the Casino theater, where her greatest triumphs have been scored and where she mads a fortune. She said ltwltb lips as fresh and red as a girl's, eyes that sparkled like a thild's, and while wearing wear-ing a blue velvet frock and a blue velvet vel-vet hat, a broach, and a bunch of violets, vio-lets, that would have made the mouth of any natural woman water with envy. - "'Oh. it isn't beauty that matters so much and makes all the trouble." said Miss Russell, bringing one white gloved hand down emphatically upon her muff. ."It's the beast all the beasts that come with It; the beast of vanity, the beast of flattery, the beast of laziness and folly and contentment with oneself. I as I or any other prima donna ever had. and remain there nntil they were put out, or. had become wrecks, physical, mental and moral I've seen them grow old in three weeks, and I've seen them sink into nothingness or the gutter after three years of brilliant success. Fools! There is no more polite word which will describe them. And there is nothing I detest mors than a beautiful fool!" see "But are they all that way. Miss Russell? Isn't it possible for a woman to be beautiful and clever, too?" 1 "'Of course It Is! And more's the pity. The beautiful woman who is clever and ambitious, who reads and thinks and tries to accomplish something, is about the most pitiful object In the world. No matter what she does, or accomplishes, people stare and exclaim: 'Oh, how pretty she is!' She sings well, acts mar-velously, mar-velously, she talks sensibly, she works hard and it is always Just. 'Oh, how pretty!' She. wants to be something and she can only be pretty. . She has got to sing twice as well, work twice as hard and act twice as cleverly as Just an ordinary glrMn order to take the public mind off her nose and her complexion. Beauty Is bad but a reputation rep-utation for beauty Is a handicap that you can't overcome. You get dlsoour-aged. dlsoour-aged. You find It Is of no use to work. e WWW "A mediocre face, a passable figure, a keen business Instinct, and lots of common com-mon sense. These are the things a girl needs in this life if she wants to be a success. But the poor beauty who would succeed must succeed not he-cause he-cause of, but In spite of, her beauty. A straight nose and an elghteen-tnch waist has tent many a girl to perdition or the back row in the chorus, while some level-headed little1 thing with a lot of ambition and a complexion like bad .pastry has gone straight from that back row to the prima donna's position In the middle of the stage." . It was awfully hard to, believe, looking look-ing at Miss Russell's perfect nose and the wallpaper fit of her dark blue velvet vel-vet gown. It was awfully hard to believe be-lieve WUh the glint of Miss Russell's diamond brooch shining In your eyes and the odor of that bunch of violets, true emblems of success,. In your nostrils. nos-trils. ' You couldn't believe it, and you wouldn't believe, it If anybody else 'had said It. But LllUan Russell said lt,'and T Milan Russell knows. It mads you want to fling away your curling tongs, wine the powder off your nose, cast |