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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1920)
THE ALLIANCE HERALD, V 19 n?ISCIUA DUN AH1U1.K TWKNTY Ikituty IoM hy I (canty Cure "Ve have all hoard about people being klllod by kindness. One of Ihe sadest cases that lins come to my knowledge Is that of the young woman who recently wrote nie a do tailed account of how she had slain what beauty she once possed by sys tematic ilMrealnient. The pity of It Is that the Ill-treatment was given under the misapprehension that it was the bst possible care. It is far belter, sometimes, to let Well enough alone. I have written nsain and again that the very best ail to beauty Is lien Mi. In nine c:h('S out of ten. If I ho health is well cart d for beauty will take care of It self. So many apparent ('.(ftcts of beauty could bo remedied better and In far less time If the wo tenn In the case would consult hr physician or cor rect her habit of living Instead of ap plying more and more salves nnd lotions. I am getting a bit out of patience with young girls who are so attras tlve In their youth and freshness that they do not require any artific ial aid, yet who Insist upon exper imenting with a hundred and one "remedies," useful enough, perhaps, (or cases requiring them but sadly handful to the tender, sensitive com plexions of girls in their teens. Many of tho girls who write to me are from small towns. They have little, If any knowledge of the outside world. I know, and they will some time learn, that the continual use of cosmetics is bound to clog the pores of the skin and force them to enlarge in order to carry on their proper (unctions. Unless cosmetics are really necessary for the sake of hiding de fects or for business purposes, as among theatrical and moving picture people, I am personally not in favor of their use. Certainly I do not fa vor cosmetics for girls of fourteen and fifteen years of age. As an Illustration of what damage school girls can do to their faces in their anxiety to grow up beautiful I will mention two letters I have Just received. I am sure the writers of the letters will not object to having their cases quoted in order that other girls may profit by their sad experi ence. One writes: "I have very enlarged pores on my nose And upper part of my cheeks.When I was a school girl I worried because I bad a few pim plett on ray face. A person upon Whose advice I thought I could rely, told me to steam my face every night for two weeks and then put on a lo tion which was to remain over night. I followed directions. The pimples were not helped in the least. As I grew older they went away of their own accord. Cut as a result of the treatment my face was more disfig ured by the enlarged pores than it ever was with pimples. "Of course I at once Bet about re pairing the damage. I used one so called remedy after another but tried treat- without success. Finally I some much advertised home mrnt given by a woman beauty doc tor. For three months I followed her advice. Three weeks after I discontinued the treatment my face was worse than ever because, prior to that, the pores though open and enlarged, lookel clean.. After the course of treatment, however, they look (logged Willi a dark substance. "Lately I have been experimenting wiih witch haztl, using it full a; r'.ngth, night and morning. The : kin of my nose soon gets drawn and bt-gius to harden and whiten, In :.L ut three days the Bkin pet Is off. The ii w skin Is an improvement be cause the pores are a little finer. I lnvc Uiied this peeling method twice but there is not enough improve ment to encourage me very much. Tho open pores make my face oily iuhI 1 am obliged to use powder con stantly. 1 have tried squeezing out i lie poles evtry few weeks but it is u p.inlul and difficult process. My face ha3 now become very tender and sensitive." Aud all just because a foolish young school girl commenced to med dle with her complexion before her face had really matured. Here Is an extract from another loiter: "I am fifteen years old and have been so troubled because there are blackheads in my forehead and Just above my upper lip I keep pinch ing them out but they come again, bigger than before. Would you ad vise me to buy a regular wash or an ointment. I tried something a friend recommended but it burnt my face and left a little brown scar so I did not use any more of it. I don't like the blackheads but they are better than scars. My arms and hands are covered with little hairs that do not look well when I wear short sleeves. I whisked them over the fire several times and burnt off the hairs but they all grew again much blacker and stlfler than they were before. Now I can't ever wear short sleeves. I don't know what to do. I am so worried that I am getting a wrinkle in my forehead. My freckles are worse, though, and I want to begin treating them right away." If she begins to use all these things at fifteen, by the time she Is nineteen she will be hopelessly de pendent upon them; and by the time she Is twenty-five she will be willing to pay any price to undo the damage her excessive and totally unnecessary care has accomplished. What she ought to do is to live In the ope n air as much as possible Play games, get tanned, freckled, if needs be, forget all about her looks and think only of cultivating good health. She will be beautiful before she knows It. If she tans, it will be a good, healthy tan such as our soldiers cultivated when they were In the training camp. Each of those tanned veterans soon bleached when he got black into civil life but the splendid physique and hardiness which he gained during the period of tanning will benefit him for the rest of his life, barring accident. Fresh air and sunshine are the I best possible aids to beautiful hair. Don t begin doing it up on the head too soon. Let it hang loose as much as possible; wear it in braids; don't; spoil It with hot irons and break it off with p'atent curl appliances. Be natural. Cultivate persons! charm more and prtlflcial complexions less and you will be referred to as beauti ful much sooner thr.n you expect. They say that love Is blind to de-i fects. I think that the average per-' ton can be made blind to defects if Fome worth while ouality Is made so conr-plcuous as to rivet the attention and admiration, to the complete ob scurement of less attractive features and abilities. j Cleopatra's reputation for beauty was duo not to the perfection of her face but to the subtle charm of her magnetic personality. I read once that the much famed b' 'nuty of Madame de Stael was en tirely In her genius, which was man ifested In every movement of her body and surrounded her plain face like n halo. Many prominent women of today who ore reputed beautiful are, in reality, plain looking. It Is some higher and better quality Fhining forth through their personality which magnetises nnd fascinates to the extent that the observer unhes itatingly describes them as beautiful. Rome day, when you have exhaust ed your adjectives in describing such a woman u friend, less Impressed and of a cold analytical mind will shock you by exclaiming: "I don't see anything beautiful about her. I know lots of women much better looking than she." Yet those very women would doubtless pass unnoticed in any large assembly and the one whose beauty was of the intangible, indescribable variety would not only have her pict ure published in every newspaper in town, but would have a dozen movie contracts laid at her feet. It is the woman who has begun to fade who needs artificial aids, not the young girl whose beauty is yet Unmatured and undeveloped. To her I can recommend no better aid than nature. Care, you know, Is said to have killed a cat, and despite the fact that pussy has nine lives. Deauty has but one. Beauty can survive a certain amount of care. But there Is a limit, beyond which beauty fades and dies, the victim of too much care. (Copyrighted 1920 Universal Service Syndicate. A Voilh-Wliile Job A pessimist and an optimist were discussing life from their different view-points. '"I really believe," said the former, "that I could make a bet ter world myself." "Sure!" returned the optimist; I that s what we are here for. Now let us get to work and do it." Bos ton Transcript. In with his report of a public meet ing. The eagle-eyed city editor read: "Three thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine eyes were fixed on the orator." "Here, what do you mean by such stuff?" wrathfully asked the C. E. "That's accuracy, sir. There was a one-eyed man there." The C. E. went out for a drink. For Publication Only. "And about the salary?" said the movie star. 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