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Why A)0tman
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"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."
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"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."
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Various Scientific Reasons,
Which Are Greatly Com"
plicated by Veils, Which
Prevent You From Ever
Knowing. Just How
You Appear to Your Friends
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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