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Show ! Dorothy Dix Talks THE REAL BEAUTY CULTURE j In- DOROTHY IUX. tlie World1! Highal Paid '.Vnman Write? j The other la S woman killed herself bcc-uuiie she liad ii' I her good looks She had heon .. noied beauty, bui III health and grl.-f over the death of her child and tor approach of middle age had robbed rob-bed her of her pulchritude, and sh end" ed her life her-anse u was iluriil- to liei when she WOJ despoiled A her physical charms, i 1 1 If ii I and paltry tragedv. this Vet j perhaps there is no more bitter onleall thsAi the on,- ihe beanty endures who sees her good look." i' S,- i.lio.-. J the agony -.f gazlrig Into her mirror, snd watching the gold of her lyiir ti.rr. to silver, the r..S' s die out of her ..eel.s, the light fade from her eyes, ihe gray-ness gray-ness and the wrinkles creep Into her ;skln. the -lendernoss of her form rhnngci Into scrawnlness, or fat. It U aa i one watched oneself slowly dying; for lo the w.nuin the charitM .e dissolving that gave zest to her lite.' No more will she he a .picen hi le World, no mort will sue see a tribute1 of admiration in every eye. No nioi . Willi she be ".".'in.-. I. and Mattered, and rfullgnt I BTtei Perhaps she win even no longer; I..- able to hold the love she has won by her I'.aniy. for with her g.-.ui IrM.ks t..i'-. her wand of en n.uitment Is broken. To. pretty woman's beauty Is generally all the stock she has on her shelve, : anil when It I- gone, all Is kone. ,Sh bankrupt Thai Is why women hang on so frantically t the last vestige of inelrl good looks, why they dy their hair, ' and paint their cheeks and trv to camod- I j flage th. ir lost charms. Trial i wny I Uiey spend fortunes on salves, and unguents, un-guents, and fall victtitis to an charlatan who pretends thai he can restore Ihelrj i youth and beauty. i Such a miracle Is, alus. impossible. No .mortal band .an ward off the ravages ! of sickness, or anxiety, or stai the pass-1 nge of the years that take their Inevlla-i Inevlla-i ble toll of a u. man's looks. Age and thn fading of her physical charm are' bound lo com. lo every woman, and then her beaut) depends upon the kind of sotil she has. i It is strange that women do not thin' of this often, i. and realize that If they , spent half as much time, and effort, and' 'money. In cultivating an inward ..... as they do In vainly trying to keep their outward beaut . they would hu . no reason lo fear age. for they would u. IliOVO an Imperishable . harm. I Suppose, for instance, a woman spent as much tin).- cultivating the In Idi ol her head as she dors the outside. Suppose Sup-pose si.e ga"' a much time t" tu.l ever "lay a- -lo does, to brushing and fiddling with her hair. Suppose she put in as many hours reading new books as .she did In having a permanent wave, orl doing ll up on . rimpers herself, lo , liothilii: of tJo I"" -leven I. rate h- I literature she might explore In the line It takes her to execute a first-class hand- made complexion. What an Inti re companion she -ould make of harself'j 1,1. .w Aide and varied would bel her i D-ver.-atl'.nal repertoire! What a responsive listener she would become! The main reason we avoid homely r "l ladles is because they are so dull, md j such bores. We don't mind a p.-Liiy wo- I man's bring stupid, because we can feat our eyea on her beauty, and enjoy her1 as we would a living picture; iui whdu such .. one loses her looks. ..li" ha:, lost all claim to our consideration, Nobodt i cares u rap ni.m tno color Of a woman wo-man "i.'ir. a long as she p eni-M i. lining I! is onlj the tedious whom vc Ueinand ' . orl.-, and shining ir. ss. n a matter of fact, no womgn Is ve-ally ve-ally uglj i- highly int. Illgent. mil who lu! a s mpathetlr and understand n soul shining out .f Ikt eyes. Auyonel vv ha., trivrled In the iirlent. a. id i'ri the women who are hideous hags, or lumps of fat, with their dull, stolid, ex-press ex-press ton less faces, must nave realised that H pays to educate women j.;i to. keep them from being sr, hard on tfl when the) are old. And suppose women spent as much 'lm m putting saie on the cranky plai s ID their disposition a they do In rubbing ' cold cream n their countenance. How much more profitable the results would be. After all. a wrinkle In your cheokii I Isn't so disfiguring aa a wrinkle In your I character. '. . i are thousands of women who live In f ar that they win lime ihelrj I. usl-aiid s w! . ii Ih,-.' lope the;;- g. O.I ami so they spend their time and) nioii. '. In beauty parlors, and arc Obllod. I and frlfd. and stewed In oil. and massaged, mas-saged, and kneaded to a pulp, trvlna to ward off Die tell-tale lines with which time stamps a woman's face. And n. I uin. x j Out they could get results If they ga'.c the same amount of energy and effcit J ultlvaling sweetnens of spirit, tor life, Is a faithful scribe, and It stamps good- I ness. and kindliness, and gentleness or. a I woman's face Just as surely as It 'doj temper, and Irritability and discontent. Mq- be o young man USt looks for color I and ' DtoUr In n gin s face, but an old ' husband l.x.k" for something else, and no man whose wife jus- c sis dearer audi sweeter every year, and more suave and ..t- t.. live with, ever funis out thai .he i .' lost h. r beauty, She looks better-to better-to him every time he looks at her. And suppose a woman devoted as much time and K If-.b nial to reducing her nag- : rii.c :t - she doe to reducing her figure. Suppose she made a.-, great an effort to gel back the altitude she took toward her husband before marriage as she does U regaining her girlish figure, wouldn't! there I..- something doing? Oh my, 1 should say, . yes. After all. what does a middle-aged! man . are whatnot his: mlddlt aged wife weighs a few pounds more or less? ..lh-Ing ..lh-Ing man has got to be tied DO n wo man by something Stronger than a .or-sel .or-sel string If she holds, him What counts With him Is a peaceful horn.- and an easy- i -oin' reasonable wit. who can get :tU I or int of view on things, and who l will-1 Ing to accord him a reasonable amount : of personal liberty. '. ..ir.-e. it's all right for women to iak .arc of their beauty and make them- selves as good looking a- tbev ..in. Hut ' ih.- want to get action, let them devote de-vote time and attention to cultivating! their minds and souls. That's where1 iej v. ill g.-t tre lasting results that pay. |