Show LILLIAN V I TIT H T I IAN RUSSELLS RUSSELL'S I L BEAUTY UTY HINTS i J cJ J I PLEASURE OF BEAUTY v c. c I Copyright 1916 by Lillian Russ Russell ll AM constantly met with the question Why do women women fuss so 60 much about 1 I beauty not no-not Men donot bo bother her a about out it and they I look ol well enough Do po they I say no not no-not not the majority of men I The well dressed and p perfectly groom groomed d man Is an exception Have you ever noticed ed the difference a uniform makes to a man Of course you have Many a girls girl's heart has been lost to a man in a smart uniform that has found itself safe in place at the he first appearance of her hero in civilians civilian's togs g There is something about gold braid and buttons that appeals to the artistic artistic ar are eyes of women That Is the reason why the eternally feminine wish to appear charming The Tho culture of beauty Is a perfectly legitimate t art The beauty of adornment adorn adorn- adornment ment of the human form the culture of beauty and land In our age especially female be beauty uty is of the first Interest and Importance ance It Is impossible to people from their looks A womans woman's natural quality Is to attract and Having attracted enchain And how Influential she may be for good or for evil the history of every age makes clear The Tho culture of beauty therefore is the natural right of every woman Wh Why should It be considered f foolish or wicked to take pains with oneself In the present day our altered systems of education and nd improved conception conception con con- of womans woman's capacities may have diverted us s n a little HUle We h have ve been th thinking of the mind almost to the exclusion of cf the body It Is perhaps the time to t notice notee that hat the new views while pointing to o one t truth uth arin are in n danger of eclipsing sing another not another not as s some mindless people believe that mental culture cul cui uh ture can ever harm a woman or do aught but but conf confer r an added charm and grac grace but that the excl exclusive culture of one one good thin thing involves a deplorable loss ss while hite two good things do but enhance erch ech others etbert luster However important the mind may be in fitting woman Yoman for her place In the world either individually individual or as the comp apron of of man mal manthe the personal I appearance Is hardly less important And a after ter al all l th the e old fashioned notion I II I that a womans woman's first duty is to be beautiful is one that Is Is' justified by the absolute ab ab- solute Imp impossibility of stamping it out I I I should be the last to imply that tha p physical b beauty auty ie is i the only thing that that can make a woman attractive Many are are marvelously attractive and magnetic mag without facial facial lr beauty as It Irs in commonly understood And some are l too tod criticism I good and useful to provoke Physical beauty remains one one of f th the sweetest and nd f strongest qualities and i ione l lone j one which ca can scarcely b be too hi highly hl v valued o or too oo false falsely I despised I 1 The effect of the mothers mother's beauty is 13 impressed up upon n h her r children all all all' through life she is their model for all women The responsibility Is great I when one gives It serious' serious thought 1 I f The cultivation of beauty therefore is a womans woman duty to her race It Is' Is Isher Isher her Influence which stamps her children with be beauty uty or 0 plainness before their birth and for years after The Greeks considered beauty so e essentially a divine boon that the 1 m ther prayed that her child might f b be before al th 1 rigs beautiful Be Beauty uty seemed to oe the h Greeks Greeks t the e visible sign 9 of an Inward grace and an expression I I of divine good will |