Show PAINTING THE LILY I 1 HAVE often felt that perhaps cowers have a kind of 0 conscious feeling of their own beauty a and nd that possibly like young girls they would like sometimes to touch it up perhaps the illy sighs for a lipstick or a box of rouge of course a young girl likes to loot look pretty it Is a feeling quite human it gives her self respect and makes her feel more comfortable to know that she Is well groomed and becomingly dressed and it glies elves her a sense of satisfaction to realize that her friends both male and female recognize her attractiveness not kot even a savage puts on her simple costume carelessly I 1 have never quite understood however why the modern girl lias has so BO little faith in the effectiveness of youthful natural beauty why she would take a perfectly fine complexion or a beautiful head bead of hair bair and daub the one with parti colored cosmetics like a unless I 1 hate bate to think it she I 1 Is determined deliberately to attract attention to herself at any cost of course she must follow the fashion changing as it Is she cannot b have a v her skirts trailing when other g girls irl have theirs at the shoe tops or at the knees she cannot wear puffed sleeves when tier her friends are eliminating that part of their garments entirely she cannot wear her hair down her back straight or in curls when cootie cages ire are in style but she can be conservative she does not need to make herself seem either freakish or extreme she should give some thought to fitness I 1 met a little girl yesterday morning when I 1 was on the way to my office her hair straight as an indians naturally was crudely curled until it stood out like a bunch of 0 wire her face flamed unnaturally as it if she had been cooling cooking doughnuts over a hot kitchen stove in the summer time her openwork open work silk stockings through which a sharp wind was blowing were quite in contrast to tier her heavy fur coat the collar of which was thrown open exposing a rather wide expanse of chilly bony chest perhaps she was comfortable undoubtedly she was sayi lab but pretty not even to her family she was grotesque she was a caricature ot of youth south she was a lily illy daubed up with paint by the crudest hand band she looked like a bareback rider at the circus I 1 could only laugh and then feel sorry borry she was a perfectly nice girl spoiled |