Show 1 L Pep Big Factor of Beauty i fy By CYNTHIA GREY Keep as young oung as you ou can as lon long as you can That is the only beauty secret worth knowing This pearl of wisdom is a French proverb And it is the secret of ot the charm for which the French women are Justly famous The wOmen of France are not beautiful women as as a a. whole Their features are too big for one thing And their complexions are too sallow callow But their pep the vitality that lends a sparkle sparlIe to their eyes eys and a springiness to their walk walk gives gives them an attraction beyond mere beauty I sat in the lounge of a a. I. I liner in mid ocean one Sunday Sunda afternoon recently watching the women around me Some of them were Americans some were English and a few were French The English Englishwomen women are very staid and dignified the Americans talked In a lazy sort of ot way ivay But the Frenchwomen Frenchwomen French Frenchwomen women were alive They chattered chaptered and laughed They were enormously enormously enormously enor enor- interested In everything around them They talked not only with their tongues but with their sparkling eyes and their expressive hands and shoulders Sarah Bernhardt was like that For years and years ears we people o of America went to the theatre to see her act Most of us didn't understand a word that she said It was her vitality her pep that drew us That same thing is true of some of the movie actresses today Gloria Swanson is not good looking But she's filled with a liveliness that comes tingling to her audiences from the black and white screen Then rhen there Is the case of Constance Talmadge They say that Constance is the most popular gIrlin girl girlIn girlin In all America They say she has more beaux than any other six girls from flom Harlem Harem to Hollywood But dont don't blame it on my looks Constance said the other day Nobody ever tells me my hair hall hairIs hallis Is like spun gold or my eyes like lile stars everybody I know though has come to me toe privately and asked ed Ye Te gods where did you get all aU your pep And where do you suppose she gets all her pep From using it up she sa says s 's I For pep Is like the battery of a car It generates itself Itsel And the more mor you use up the more you have Everything E I do I do with all an my might and main Constance goes on to say I keep on the go every minute And she I does oes When she's not acting in the movies she she's shea s driving or dancing or 01 fencing or swimming or going to parties The raving I beauty hasn't a chance with the peppy girl says say's Constance A man likes to go around with a girl who has a good time every minute she's with him a girl who knows how to talk and how to Ito la laugh gh A girl who's vho's alive aliveto to the ends of her fingernails And she is right Women who tell teU themselves that they're too tired to do 10 this or ordo do that soon lose all their popularity For they're not interesting The most beautiful woman of the eighteenth century f was Madame The The cleverest woman of of that time was Madame de Ce I always have sit near me In h a. a room Madame de once told Napoleon for as soon as I begin to talk nobody looks at he hel again during the evening She has beauty but vitality And vitality vItality that that gift of the gods gOds Is Is nothing but p pep pep p Cultivate it it |