Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1915, Page 20

Tiar, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE MAGAZ Why A'Woman NeverSeesHersel AsOthersSeeHer “When a woman looks at herself in the mirror she does not Her image is see herself as others see her. 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 Leli; i T HbH o E : ;\a There are also several other rea. sons why & woman does not see her- selfl as others see her when she looks . at herseif through her vell. The first fact that is very evident the imaged face. Now, what effect could that have? TLet us see. ‘The vell on the wearer's face is very close to the eye, and, conso- quently, the wearer looks through o certain small hole or mesh in the vell. Let us start from here and see what effect this has on any view- that of gazing at It through a very sreall hole. The easlest example of such is that of looking through a keyhole. The view has a certaln “frame” around it that gives the ef foct of a painted picture in the first place. In the second place other ob- Pects are shut out to some extent, reandings cannot be as full as usual Therefore, from the keyhole effect we may conclude that women see things through vells with holes in them In & rather roseate hue, or mather they are forced to look at they see in this manner conditions the (hi i g g § 11 §:f itk REE i FE ' i g: I L8 E | | 1.3E [ 4 i £ é i E i § § " Knowing Just How On the general effect of the vell. The de- vice of softening a view on the stage by placing a big meshed net in front of it Is famillar to all of us. Now, a big mesh far away is the same as & small mesh close to the eye. 8o the view is softened to some extent, That is the view elsewhere than the one gotten directly through the small hole in the veil direetly in front of the eye. Then this small hole also hf. parts about the mmage—every- thing would look more or less trim and neat. And, added to the effects explained above, would be the general effect of & vell on a person's face. As this serves generally to hide any sharp blemishes or pecullarly marked com- logical Effect on a plexion the genera! result ought cer- tainly to make almost any woman be . pleased with herself on looking at her velled image in a mirror. She often flatters herself when she views berself through a vell. But there have yet to oe taken up the factors of color, design and size of mesh. Differently colored vells have individusl effects of such obvious: nature that they need not be dis cussed to any extent here. The colo: bhas the general psychological effect of the same color on the eye seen or used anywhere else——red, for joy, ete. And then the effect on the wearer of belng In a coy seclusion gives to her A rather coquettish tura of mind. ‘This is almost necessarily so, for it [ HOW A VEIL'S PATTERN AFFECTS THE WAY A WOMAN LOOKS TO HERSELF. t, a Veil with Vertical Stripes Which Make a Woman See Herself in the Mirror Thinner Than She In the Centre, One with Horizontal Stripes Which Make Her Image in the Mirror Look Stouter. a Figured Veil, and Above. One of the New Lam enables the wearer to indulge in cer- tain faclal expressions which cannot be seen and which might mean a! most anything. Then her identity is very hard to establish when her face is behind even the thinnest vell.. In fact, the most deceptive masks ewer worn at a masked ball were those forms made to fit about a half inch in front of the face, but coveriug the face, and made out of ordinary fiy- screen wire painted different colors. Now, the very large meshed vells really have no particular effect ex- cept a psychological one. They only partly cover, but what they do cover they generally cover thoroughly with A more or less solld and large figure embroldered onto the veil. So these simply have the “seclusion” effect spoken of above. A vell, however, worn by & woman l}mon always tells a tale to the student of such subjects. There are a thousand different ways of wearing one, for instance, and there are cer- tainly many different kinds of vells to wear. Then the torn or perforated veli, What a tal¢ that nnfoids! A vell is an added plumage to the bird. It shows the desires, customs and habits of the wearer toward the op- Really 1s. On the Right, Shade Veils, Both of Which Have a Curious Psycho- ‘'oman’s Opinion of Herself. posite sex to a great extent, or else the temporary mood of the wearer. To get back to our subject of a woman gazing at heér image in a mirror: What. does she see there, even wiien she has no veil beautiful features? She certainly does not see herself as she actually is in real life, for the sides of her face are reversed, for if she 1ift her right hand the image lifts the left, . Her mirror image then is really not a perfect llkeness of herself. What difference does that make? Not as much as might be thought, but 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 Coovright. 1815 by the Star Comnany. » Great Rritain Rishte Recavvad ~ INE PAGE “The Woman with a Veil on Really Sees Her Imaged Face in the Mirror Through two Veils. other side. In fact, several years ago there came into vogue photo- graphs of people consisting of the right half of thelr face taken straight and the right half taken in & 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 ac- 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 of the plate to the semsitive paper, Then split each photograph with scissors directly down the mid- dle and paste the right half of the correct negative to the left half of the reversed one and you have a pleture of yourself compdsed of the two right halves of 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. This is generally, science shows, the one composed of the right halves of the face. The “velled woman" has always been somewhat of a mystery, both in 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- self Than She Does to Others.” fact and in story. This is harmon- fous with what is now known of the effects of veiling the face. It allows a certain stolidity of appearance even to the most nervous, Vefled women should make excellent poker players, ‘rivalling the excellence of the wooden-faced Chinee in this re- gard. As an actual effect and not a hyp- notized one, the pecullanly figured vells 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. Sippose that a woman has on a veil with only one little black star on its right cheek? This just as surely is a “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 vell beauty spots be worn in the streets or at church or anywhere, instead of just at a dance or reception, thereby making the wearer much more dangerous to the Opposite sex. Of course veils have other uses than those outlined above. They are used very often to hold the hair in place or to hold a curl at a cer- tain place on the face—sometimes an artificial curl at that. This, too, has its psychological effect, for it makes the wearer feel just that much more sure of herself, and conse- l(]uondy adds to her prestige in gny i Good Reasons for Saying ““Hail to the Chef” ATL to the chet 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 cleared away, blow seldom we think what has been the effect on humanity of the kind of meals that have been eaten three times a day (sometimes less, rarely more) for centuries! Cooking Is one of the principal forces in civiiization, 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 caused fillness, but now nearly all maladles are traceable to these tiny germs, many of which are found in food, and can be destroyed omly by the heat of cooking. Maf, owing to the very compli- cated machinery of his body, falls a prey to disease more easily than the animals. Consequently food which an animal can take without harm may kill a man. Cooking destroys 8 large proportion of the parasites, microbes and bacteria in food, thus giving man a chance to digest a dlet 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 i makes the mouth water, or, in other words, it'causes a great dea! of saliva to flow, with the result that the sa~ liva 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 troubie for the eater. In order to achieve the best results in the destruction of bacteria, and in the increasing of digestibility, meat and other foods should be sub- Jected first to intense heat, so as to form a retaining skin, as is done in roasting or broiling. Then the heat should be reduced and kept on for a long term, during which the juices gradually =often the muscular fibres. This b 't acts as a death-blow to the millk .s of bacteria which would otherwise have found g place in the stomach of the man or the woman who was to eat it, From this polat 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 benetastor to the race as whole as they have been a boon to the hungry. It is the cook who bas borne the banner of prog- Tess through all the ages. / : —