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Show J isaioNT frown ! Don't you hate IJI j f (hosc words? Couldn't you al- ' jlfj most strike the person who i : j L continually warning you in this p !N v? Your best frincds arc as obnoxi- 2 as enemies when they try to correct i habit of your'. Of course their :j ) Erections arc well meant, and you ' 1 ZoW it, too, though you do answer li.Mv "I can't help it Do you suppose 5. f Slddoitif I knew?" ; J jjj-t's die whole secret of this pcr-! pcr-! ! riaoiis fiabit for habit it is you don't 0tf when you arc frowning. If you V 'mulct move around, with a little mirror : front of your face all the time you - 'nrht soon correct the habit. But 4' j there arc other reminders and cor- ' rtttives as efficient as this mirror would 1,111 ijVcrc it feasible, and all you have to j, to screw up your will power to &e 'ticking point and say: "J will oer that frown." m One of the best reminders, and a .faple one, loo, is the line of gumarabic Vi'jo the forehead. Each day, before j (j,e worries and work bring out the ugly .1 ' froWn lines, just take a soft camel's T ibsir brush, dip it in a solution of gum-i gum-i Ijrtbic and draw a fine line right across frown. The skin should be taut iktcn this is done, of course. Then wait i until you arc engrossed with some ab- ' ! h jorbing problem and watch how that , j ft invisible line will act as a quick rcmind- tf when the brows try to pucker, f I Another effective way of stopping the , Iffown when it comes from conccntra-7- I tion in the task at hand is to sit at work V Uforc a mirror. Of course, this is not jj Sjhvays possible, but when it is it will found an excellent way of seeing . yocralf as others see you when you !' have your mind otherwise employed I ; itaa on yourself. The casual upward ' irUnce from the work will show you ! ' vith all the disfigurement which the frown brings and -will be one more step Jtoward breaking the habit j Another reminder which has proved j effective in other habits as well as jfrovning is paying into a bank a penny eor, in extreme cases, a. nickel for "crery time you arc caught in the act by tyonrsclf or some one else. The results isioald go to charity to make the cure jnore effective. It is surprising how the jvciy fact of having to part with as lit-jtleasa lit-jtleasa penny enforces the falling from I grace so much more than a gentler re-jEDder. re-jEDder. One girl wears a ring on the wrong ,f:ger to correct a habit. The con-' con-' stint irritation of the ring where it docs Ifxot belong reminds her to examine II Sbrtbcr she is frowuing or biting her pl . nils or twiddling her fingers or what- , Cici uit iitiuii. may uc f But even with "the habit corrected, the fro7m lines remain unless it has been ! new habit too young to leave these i disfiguring marks. There is a treatment ,mth massage whidi will do a lot to case these lines. Select a food mas-3ge mas-3ge cream and then, with the thumbs 'resting on the cheekbones, rub in the direction of the wrinkle with the tips of the two forefingers or middle fingers, itfhichevcr is most convenient This treatment, followed by a wrinkle plaster at night, will soon undo what the frown Has done, if the habit is broken and the ,'treauncnt persevered in. The wrinkle piasters can be bought at any toilet jgoods department or drug store and cost about 50 cents. ' Of course, all frowning is a habit, because be-cause it is more or less unconscious ; but bad: of it there arc often disorders Ttuch make the growth of the habit an easy matter. Chief among these causes is eye strain. If you have any reason to think that failure to focus properly is : your trouble, consult an eye specialist hy all means. A little thing like glasses for a corrective period or for close work ; may remove the cause of the frown completely. Then there arc often plain nerves to blame. Consult your physician physi-cian here and learn to relax the whole body so that the strain will' not pucker up the frown between the eyes. Mental condition has a lot to do with this frowning habit If you arc a worrier, wor-rier, lacking in sclf-cohfidcncc, a pessimist pessi-mist or a plain grouch, the frown will be there as sure as you're alive. So don't frown, and don't give anybody any-body a chance to tell 'you this after today. to-day. Begin now. Look into the mir- ror. Ah, you were frowning, weren't you? And isn't it the worst habit you know of? To prevent pastry from burning set a pan of water in the oven while it is baking. bak-ing. Always use lard to grease vour cake pans( as the salt in the butter causes it to stick to - the pans. m:.y . ' y?sA5vz |