Show M X im most women wish I 1 to tn be ir beautiful i j v by JEAN NEWTON t it HAVE two letters asking our opinion I 1 on beauty contests I 1 am going to quote tor for you first what the fa moos bou british artist C B R W net incon con who has served as a ju judge age in uch contests and may be said to know something about them lias has to oay ay in the matter 1 I believe that these beauty competitions originated will the real estate tte agents ot of america who used the female of some gome small town to boost the female of some smaller town and so advertised the locality in which they intended to speculate these beauty competitions are indirectly encouraging unfortunate women to imagine that beauty Is sufficient in spite of the fact that every day we have proofs that any woman who dares to face the mail mad scramble in any form of public life must be equipped with a brain as sharp as a needle a ruthless opportunism and a abkin as thick as a a rhinoceros the edans are possibly under to women than we are they prevent this natural and adolescent mania for self exhibition by compelling their women to hide themselves behind a ion s from which we gather that mr does not approve of beauty competitions and while I 1 do not agree with him film that mohammedan women are better belter olt off than we I 1 do i believe that lie he tins has lilt hit at tile the crux of the matter clion ile points out the danger of lending girls to believe that beauty la Is all su mel ent even on the lie stage it is not enough to be just beautiful Is 14 it a girt girl aspires to more than just tile show girls part of walking on all and oft off and certainly in aery other oilier field of en cn leaver deavor mille beauty aill help to open doors unless there Is something iery ery substantial it in the forin of talent or ability alil llly to hack it up lip its glory will lie he ery chort abort hied filed in the ordinary relationships of life people do gravitate to beau beauty i i but without lle force of a persona personality ll 11 ity behind it abis is a fleeting neet iii magnetism you inny lime hale heard won remark of a dull woman that athes beautiful rii ouli to lip lie dunch and get away with fill it allot eliut if iou ou will observe thein 1011 i ill see fur for flow short a ahne this is true since branly een in lis ill lay Is not sufficient 1111 11 ll limit hout stich qualities as intelligence talt it a galle of bunjor li unior interest in things iK anil and benle individuality of personality how leaky a bark it must prove to the pirl girl who nanan to set get out jut in it without equipment on the tea ea or of lle life for uha teNer the degree of beauty with which aich we e may lie girled emried allee Is one phase of it flint is universal awl indisputable reality fades the tears bears enrich eniS cli other qualities take constant lull loll front froin tills this rift gift which they must and destroy therefore it Is wise for a girl not to its powers or exaggerate agg ernle its importance to tile the point of oe tile hie cultivation cult hatlon 0 of f deeper and iame allore perman plit qualities nc 9 1931 cell bell syndicate |