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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1915)
The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page Why A)0tman ever sOt "The Woman with a Veil on Really Sees Her Imaged Face in the Mirror Through two Veils. This Fact and the Curious Keyhole Effect Produced by Focusing the Gaze Through a Mesh in the Veil Result in' Making Her Appear More Beautiful to Her elf Than She Does to Others." """"""""'"'" Hll! "When a woman looks at herself in he mirror he does not see herself as others see her. Her image is reversed and also it is some thing seen at twice the distance between her eyes and the mirror." -' Various Scientific Reasons, Which Are Greatly Com" plicated by Veils, Which Prevent You From Ever Knowing. Just How You Appear to Your Friends w .1 NO worn in ever mm herself ss others see her. When a worasn looka In the mirror she thinks she know Just bow she appears to others, but this Is not so. - Especially It she deceived If she thinks she knows bow she sppeare to others when she Is wearing" veil. . This whole matter In complicated one, and involves many factors of light, shade, color and the anatomical fact that the right side and the left tide of the face are never the a me, and also InroWei some principles ot physics and optics. Veils produce curious optical Illu sion. If a woman 1a wearing a well with a Tertlcal stripe those running up and down she will appear to herself In the mirror much thinner than she reallj is. So sll fat Isdles, to look well to themselves In the, mirror, should wear veila with verti cal etrlpes. The reverse is also true. Very thin women should weer Tells ith horizontal stripes. Bear in nlnd that this does not make the veerer actually look to other people 'atter or thinner as the case may be. . But she looks that way to herself, it is also true that 1f you are tat, t and your friends wear Tells with horizontal stripes, you will appear to them fatter than you are entitled to look. There are also several other rea sons why a woman does not sea her self as others see ber when she look at herself through ber Tell. The first fact that is very Sfldcut Is that one has to look through two veils to see the face beneathfiat Is the Imaged face. Now, what effect could that have? Let us see. The Tell on the wearer's face Is very close to the eye. and. conse quently, the wearer looks through a certain email bole or mesh In th Tell. Let us start from bers and sea what effect this has on sny view that of gazing at it through a very srrall bole. The easiest example of ' such Is that of looking through a keyhole. The view bss a certain "frame" around it that gives the ef f.x-t of a painted picture in the first place. In the second place other ob ects are shut out to some extent, end so a comparison of charms be tTeen the sctual view and its sur rendtngs cannot be as full ss usual Therefore, from the keyhole effect we may conclude that women see things through vet! a with boles in them in a rather roseate bus, r rather they are forced to look at anything they see in this manner under unusual conditions and thus figure out that the things seen are really ot greater beaut- than they would otherwise think. Uuen there la an effect due to tba hazy oAidltlon brought about by the acts as does the pinhole camera. It must be understood that the eye is a regular camera and bas a combination of lenses which throw an Image of anything seen upon the retina. But the sharp definition ef things seen depends on a great many things, for the eye has what Is Known as spherical ' aberration, just as have lenses. Now, the smaller the bole through which light comes to a lens from an object the more sharply de fined is the Image on the retina. 8o the effect of this tiny bole would also be to sharply define the image of, one's self in the glass so there would seemingly be no slouchy look- 7 eesier r,h X X1:; ' 'X X " M .. I) !!x:v X!i :;-:iC- . ,.. XX X xv, -XX-X V '..-V- . , . VI S --t" ' v 't 1 - ' : v - I r .-" .,..'...." v. , i l:-':X:;.:V:. ;: TVv - '"x , VxM-A LJ - ' .. X;': . -v-.x V .; XX.-'-- X (tx i -Uv-;x: . Vs" ....,,A" .. ., V- ,.X X'- -,T ''.;te) "XlN -aS1':-. v V- X- xv-i;fa --v. 'tx- w xxxi . 4-xx x sv ' f . ? simply have the spoken of above. A veil, however, worn by a woman almost always tells a tale to tba student of such subjects.' There are a thousand different ways of wearing one, for Instance, and there are cer tainly many different kinds of veils to wear. Then the torn or perforated veil. What a tale that unfolds! A Tell is sn added plumage to the bird. It shows the desires, customs and habits ot the wearer toward the op 9 other side. In fact, several years ago there came into vogue photo graphs of people consisting ot the right half of their face taken straight and the right half taken in a mirror. These two were pasted together so that the resulting photograph was really not the right and left sides of the person's face, but two right sides, the left side in the photograph being the mirror image of the right side of the face. Any one with a camera may ao complish this feat with a little patience. Simply take two negatives of the subject in the same .position and at the same distance, or Just, one negative will do, used twice. Then print one negative correctly and the other one with the wrong side ot the plate to" the sensitive paper. Then split each photograph with scissors directly down the mid dle and paste the right half of the correct negative to the left balf of the reversed one and you have a picture of yourself composed of the two right halves ot your face. Now paste the other halves together and compare the two resulting photo graphs. Always will one be found that is to be desired a thousand times more than the other. Tbia is generally, science shows, the one composed of the right halves of the face. The "veiled woman" bas always been somewhat of a mystery, both in fact and in story. This is harmon ious with what is now known of the effects of veiling the face. It allows a certain stolidity of appearance even, to the most nervous. Veiled women should make excellent poker players, 'rivalling the excellence of the wooden-faced Chinee In this re f ard. As an actual effect and not a hyp notlzed one, the peculiarly figured veils take the prize. The effects here are most certainly on the be holder, and, of course, on the wearer when she beholds herself in the mirror. Suppoae that a woman has on a veil with only one little black star on its right cheek? This just as surely is "beauty spot" as the ones worn in olden times (and sometimes even now) by the belle of the ball. The only difference is that these Tell beauty spots may be worn in the streets or at church or anywhere, Instead of just at a dance or reception, thereby making the wearer muA more dangerous to the opposite sex. Of course Tells have other uses than those outlined above. They ere used very often to hold the balr in place or to hold a curl at a cer tain place on . the faice eometlmea an artificial curl at that. Thia, too, baa its psychological effect, for H makes the wearer feel just that much more sure of herself, and conse quently adds to her prestige la any line. " ; Good Reasons for Sayinfj "Hail to the Chef" HOW A VEIL'S PATTERN AFFECTS THE WAY A WOMAN LOOKS TO HERSELF. On the Left, a Veil with Vertical Stripes Which Make a Woman See Herself in the Mirror Thinner Than She Really !s. In the Centre, One with Horizontal Stripes Which Make Her Image in the Mirror Look Stouter. On the Right, a Figured Veil, and Above. One of the New Lamp Shade Veils, Both of Which Have a Curious Psycho logical Effect on a Woman's Opinion of Herself. general effect of the veil. The de vice of softening a view on the stago by placing a big meshed net in front ot it Is familiar to all ot us. Now, a big mesh far away is the same as a small meh close to the eye. So the view la softened to some extent. That is the view elnewbere than the one gotten directly through the small hole In the veil dlreetly In front of the eye. Then this small bole also ing parts about the image every thing would look more or less trim snd neat. And, added to the effects explained above, would be the general effect of a veil on a person's face. As this serves generally to hide any sharp blemishes or peculiarly marked com- p eiton the general result ought cer. t a Inly to make almost any woman be pleased with herself on looking st her veiled image in a mirror. She often flatters herself when she views herself through a Tell. But there have yet to oe taken uj the factors of color, design snd site of mesh. Differently colored veils have individual effects of such cbvloui. nature that they need not be dis cussed to any extent here. The ooloi has the general psychological affect of the same color on the eye seen ot used anywhere else red. for Joy, etc. And then the effect on the wearer ol being In a coy seclusion gives to ber a rather cotjuettUh turn of mind. This is almost necessarily so. for It enables the wearer to indulge In cer-' tain facial expressions which cannot be seen ami which might mean al most anything. Then her identity Is very hard to establish when ber face la behind even tue thinnest veil.. In fact, Uie most iltveiitlve masks ewr worn at a masked ball were thoe forma made to tit about a half inch In front ot the face, but covering the face, and made out of ordinary fly screen wire painted different colors. Now, the very lan;e meshed veils really have no particular effect ex cept a psychological one. They only partly cover, but what they do cover they generally oovr thoroughly with a more or lesa solid and large figure embroidered onto the veil. So these Coovrlcht. ISIS tiv lh Ftar Cnmnanv. t Orl Rrl,.l ntt... .4 petite sex to a great extent, or else the temporary mood of the wearer. To get back to oiy subject ot a women gazing at her Image in a mirror: What does she see there, anyhow, even wiien sbe baa no Veil over her beautiful features? She ctTUlalr does not see herself as she actually is in real life, for the sides ot her face are reversed, for if she lift her right hand the Image lifts the left, viler mirror Image then is really not a perfect likeness of herself. 'What difference does that - make? Not as much as might be thought, Jut still a certain amount. It Is a fact that one side of every person's face is much more expres sive and "human looking than the ATL to the chef who in tri umph advances!" Why not chef Instead of chief? Nobody ever gives enough credit to the cook. We all enjoy a good dinner, but after it is eaten,' and the dishes cleat ed away, blow seldom we think what has been the affect on humanity of the kind of meals that have been eaten three times a day (sometimes less, rarely more) tor centuries! Cooking is one ot the principal forces In civilization, and it has played a tremendous part in bring ing mankind to the high place it now holds. The principal reason for cooking our food is to destroy disease germs. For many ages no one knew what csuaed illness, but now nearly all maladies are traceable to these tiny germs, many of which are found in food, and can be destroyed only by the heat ot cooking. Mah, owing to the very compli cated machinery of his body, falls a prey to disease more easily than the animals. Consequently- food which an antmal can take without harm may kill a man. Cooking destroys a large proportion of the parasitea. microbes and bacteria in food, thus giving man a chance to digest a diet that otherwise would kill him. , Frequently one forgets that cook ing is primarily not Intended to make food more pleasant to the taste, but to make it easier to digest' But when a dish is toothsome H makes the mouth water, or, lb other words, if causes a great deal of saliva to flow, with the result that the sa llva and food go down Into the stom ach together, and the food is more easily made available for digestion. If. however, the cook Is anxious to tickle the taste of the man who is to eat her food and thinks more of satisfying the palate of an epicure that of the digestibility of the meal, she is only storing up trouble for the eater. In order to achieve the best resulta in the destruction of bacteria, and in the increasing of digestibility, meat and other foods should be sub jected first to intense heat, ao as to form a retaining ekln, as is done in roasting 0r broiling. Then the heat should be reduced and kept on for a long term, during which the Juices gradually -often the muscular fibres. This h :t acts as a death-blow to the mailt .a of bacteria which would otherwise have found a place in the stomach of the man or the woman who was to eat it. From this point of view, therefore, the cook is one of the most impor tant factors in the upward progress of the race from brute to man. Cooks have been ac much a benefactor to the race as whole ss they have been a boon to the hungry. It is the cook who has borne the banner ot prog ress through all the ages. ' v ' -9
