The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1906, Page 12

THE SAN. FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL BY AATHERINE MORTON THE FACEYOU WOULD ¢ ¢ o look ever more be to have nose high elfin fingers itline by bones and to that a fairy er eek size of ere is health under 60 years mate good unt of time t of courage The reason we see £0 en is not that at they are not not arrive at that there is go at that. attitude of my corre- photograph, stitul by Thurs- follow some of t will be, if not & r more attractive e is now. The ping- ts are her entiful, and wearing A loose, le at the sides, will I neck s lower part of pinched v large, apely it s 1 and too reduce the y of the cold a each of pm- anet chips; let f rs; then s heese Apply to the s ss, if the lips are form- s < t curves—the n. A s often changes lips by developing the making them firm, and which is often the way of speaking and a the mouth open while Compressing lips firmly o give them the mouth and lips, always expressive fea- e of being molded By influence of the mouth the personal beauty of a ed by all, and mothers cularly responsible if ers grow up with ugly teeth haped mo Children should wed to suck their thumbs if mas expect them to grow up ths and even teeth. Con- this habit will often grow out of line or to ers are being performed in what is c dentistry. Crooked teeth ightened, decayed teeth fl discolored ones d ar 1 ones, which abso- detection, implanted. What- er economy one must practice, let be in the care of the teeth. To economize in dentistry is fatal to the would-be beauty. Nothing is more repul- sive then black or discolored teeth. For home use powdered two weeks only umice, used once in Il clean away the tar- day that she hated to write a let- ter, and that she put off the unwel- me task as long as she could. ellie, with whom she was talking, iting letters was a bore, but sdded that for her part she dearly loved to recelve them. Well, most of us do. When the postman comes in the morning it is & pleasure to find that he has brought you a letter from the girl who vigited you last summer, or your cousin at Yale, or your favorite uncle whose letters are & little old-fashioned, but who at Christmas, Easter and birth- dsys proves himself a generous friend. One salways feels satisfaction at be- ing remembered by the sbsent. If one is away from home, the malls are eagerly watched for letters from father end mother and the rest of the dear home group. It is wonderful how fest and how safe are the trains that carry the letters with the little red stamp af- fixed, to show that Uncle Sam is re- sponsible for their rapid transit. Only I HEARD Louise declare the other ¢ o tar and sediment which accumulate eon- stantly and which hasten the de the teeth, and give them the greenish- vellow look so often secn. Use the pum- ice this way: Get & cents’ worth of powdered pumice ne and an orange stick and a lemen arpen the stick to a flat point, cut the non in half and dip the erange stick o the lemon juice, 1 into the dered pumice. Ru the green and rub rub be- thoroughly ter. Pumice ove the tar- t those of resort to fmjure the our ping-pong girl's she was a baby, had started in to would have v to return to other defects: If, wh her mother or nurse mold the offending nose, it responded llke so much putty. For the ose has no bone and the daily pressure f thumb and forefinger can make a traight little nose out of the most shape- as baby pug. Now that she has grown up there is little to be done, and one has make the best of one’s nose, so long as it is meither absolutely crooked, nor the nostrils too wide. A crooked or broken nose can be made straight by an opera- tion. which, however, should only be re- sorted to when the feature causes real @istress of mind. Broad nostrils can be contracted by pinching them through a muscular effort or wearing at night a sort of nose slip. This resembles the good old-fashioned clothespin, and which all readers of Miss Alcott's “Little Women" will remember was resorted to by Amy for the same purpose. The nose clip is made of brass and may be had at any in- strument maker's. It is most uncomfort- able to wear, but what do we not suffer in the pursuit of beauty? Even a beauti- fully shaped nose cannot look well when it is shiny or red. Where the skin of the nose 18 excessively oily it s often neces- sary to remove the oil from the cuticle. This is done by impregnating & soft rag with benzine gnd wiping the nose off with it before applylng the zinc lotion, made LIKE T HAVE in this way: Sulphate of zinc, four grains; compound tincture of lavender, sixteen drops; distilled water, two ounces. ‘We must all go through our pilgrimage with eves the color and size it has pleassd nature to make them, but so much can be done to the eyelashes and eyebrows as to often transform their expression. I am sure if my ping-pong girl would only go and have those absolutely colorless brows stdined she will have less reason to com- plain of her looks. She is very fair haired, so she must not chose a bldck tint, which would look artificlal and vul- gar. The right color would be a light brown. There is no permanemt stain for eyelashes, any more than there is for the hair, but some good dyes last two or three weeks. A home-made stain can be concoeted in this manner: Gum arable, one dram; india ink, oges half dram; rose water, four ounces. Pow- der the ink and gum and triturate small gquantities of the powder with the rose- water until you get a uniform black lquid. It should be applied with a very tiny camel's hair brush. Dark-haired girls are often tréubied with eyebrows that are too heavy, or that meet across the bridge of the nose. These superfluous hairs should be burned out with the clectric needle If a permanent cure is to be effected. Whera the hairs are not too strong they can be removed by the aid of tweezers or by a good paste depilatory. A toothpick or a stick is dipped in the paste, and a tiny particle applied to each hair. Care must be taken that it does not reach the eyes. My eorrespondent is responsible for the hollows in her cheeks and the two long lines on either side of the mouth.. She undoubtedly sleeps with her mouth mx‘s, thus allowing cheek muscles to sag. - sage the cheeks internally, using th forefinger wnpfied in a handkerchiet pressing the outsidé of the cheek with the thumb at the same timne. This will stim- ulate the circulation, and a fattening dlet will also help fill out the chesks, but the mouth breathing must be stopped during sleeping hours, for it is not only um- healthy for the lungs, but utterly de- structive to the beauty of the face. a1 e f??:z AoLTE BRE A THER RN ALES 1 don't know whether my ping-pong ple- ture girl will have made all the improve- ments she aspires to by “‘Thursday.” but by following these ons, which have all been tried , for a week of Thursdays, any other Birl who is dissatisfied with her looks should be well on the road to beauty. Beauty has ever been considered woman's alvlnen‘gln. X B e —— “What Is the first requisite for W‘Llun'l greatness?' wes a question asl ‘:-fl g philosopher. uty, was the answer. And her second?” ‘Beauty.” “And the last?” persisted the In- quirer. “Beauty.” A heautiful woman is al s beauti- ful. REven if it Is true it n s couple of decades a splendid wo will be faded and unlo..vo'l.i the ml‘n gnlnt is that she is beautiful now and ag & distinet esthetle fnfiuence upon lite. 8he i3 painted on canvas, cut into stone and en: ed in verse. Beauty is ter now, and there is more of it in the Greece of the classic times. Bealde of the beau- titul women of our da. 0se glorious creatures who ride and dance and go out on the 1 whose perfect bodies are 1y ed—the Venus of Milo looks Iike & peasant girl deformed by overeating. . Some slim and faultless Otero. some Cleo de, Merode, could she slip back through a loophole of the years into old Greece, would set the world by the ears as Helen never did. The women of today outcharm all the dead women over whom there is so much pother. No woman has been more celebrated for her beauty than Mary Queen of Bcots, but if- she were to walk unan- nounced into a London drawing-room today It is doubtful if she would cause much remark. Yet Mary's beauty was endugh for the contemporaries; it sent the men of her day off their heads, and filled her cousin. Elizabeth with deadly Jealousy. The famous Gunnings were declared by thelr contemporari to be “the handsomest women allve. ‘When they went Into the park they were mobbed by curious gasers. When they were present at court, the other ladles attending the climbed upon the chairs and tables to get a glimpse of them. When they traveled, people sat up all night so as not to miss seeing them get into thelr coach i{n the morning. ‘We do not sep any such enthusiasm now, and we are apt to think it is be- cause we have nothing lovely enough to be enthuslastic about. But this is not the true explanation. The beauty of the Missea Gunning can certainly have lost nothing under Reynolds’ brush; yet his portraits of them do not reveal any loveliness which we should consider wonderful. It is not, then, tbat we admire beauty less than our ancestors gid, but that we have more of it, and therefore it excites us less, It 18 not merely that thers are more beautfes of the first oucz than there #gem ever to have been befors, but that ity beconie 50 general, Youcan more lovely women in one after- noon in the sireets of an American city than in all the Reynoldses and Gains- boroughs. Indeed, in the mm »b:::treur axe ® & & of all its nhru m rs, Wa in the most heautitul of the world. Beauty is greater now and there {s more of it than at any perfed of the world's his- tory. ‘Where shall we look for the highest type? In Americg? | Native beauty, as developed In America, is the outgrowth of such heterogeneous elements, such a congjomeration of na- a thin slip of paper and a little gum protect it from the world, but the let- ters with its story of homelife, its check from papa, its little love gift from mamma, goes fiylng from New York to South Dakota, or from Boston to San Francisco, or New Orleans to Narragan- sett Bay, passing from hand to hand un- til 1t reaches its destination. Nothing 8o slight as a letter seems to me 80 strongly and so entirely protected from risk and dangers. T & oot think girls would dislike to write lettere If they observed two or three rules. One is not to write & letter in too greet a hurry. If you are on tiptoe to go down the street with Jean, or have made an engagement to skate with your brother and his chum-at 4 o'clock, you will hardly be able to write a creditable letter if you give yourself only five min- utes to do it in. A girl needs a sense of leisure and & spare half-hour in which to write the letter that shall carry some- thing of ber real self to her distant friend or her enxigus mother, miles away. No compliment is conveyed by frantic haste. Decide what you can do and what you can omit, and get a little clear space and unhurried time before you begin a letter. Next, elways answer & letter as soon as you can after you have read it. Itis then fresh in yoyr mind; the questions it asks tnd the news it conveys are altke full of intérest to you, and you can carry on your -part of the written comversation without its belng one-sided and indiffer- ent. “I have a letter from Ruth,” complained Ruth's sister Rose, ““and she has not told me = single thing I wanted to know, nor given me the address of het muaic teach- er, nor so much as inquired how grand- mother 1s, and grandmother will be sure to ask me to read her the letter,” In this case Ruth's letter was a disap- pointment. A good plan before one begins is to gl again at the letter received and note the particular points that should not be overlooked in the reply. : A third suggestion conterns one's correspondents. A achoolgirl ousht mot Don’t Write a Letter When in & Hurry—Giris Should Have Few Young Men ents—Any Hasdwriting =@ Fallure That Is Dificult te to engage in letter writing about which her parents and friends are in the dark. For instance, Adeline con- sulted me the other day about the pro- priety of corresponding with & boy whom she casually met at her Cousin D's, when' spending a day there last summer. “He seemed a very nice boy,” she sald, “and I liked him yery much. Now he is at the university and has written to me and wishes me to write to him. What shall I do?” ¥ The thing for Adeline or any other Iy, A girl to do in this instance is to show her boy friend's letter to her mother or teacher, and be gulded by the advice given My own would be simply to answer such a letter very politely, but to explain that I was too busy to engage In a correspondence. A girl's letters to boys should be limited to members of her own family, to the cousinhood, and perhaps to somebody whom she has known all her life ‘When you meet a person accldentally and only for a short time, you do not know him well enough to writs to him or receive his letters. A fourth bit of counse! concerns itself ‘with the dress of a letter. .I do hope you girls will write a legible hand. What- ever else handwriting may be, 1t is & fallure if it is difficult to read. Such little things as correct spelling.and punc-. t important. . Misspelled blask ink are indispensable in the cor- respondence of a young lady. Every let- ter ghould have at the top the full post- office address of the writer and the dats of the writing. Many people date their letters at the end, a fashion that has little to commend it, and which should be changed as soon as possible by us all for ithe mors Intelligent manner of dating what we write at the top of the first page. Do not write in a haphazard way all over your paper, so that it is as bad as splving a puzzle to find out where the next page begins. Sign your letter with your full name, no matter to whom you are writing. Never write a letter to any one which would give you uneasiness or disturbance should it fall into the wrong hand. Write as you talk, the more naturally the bet- ter. Stilted, high-flown letters are not welcome anywhere. In old times people bedan a letter by saying, “I take my pen in hand to write you s few lines, hoping they will ind you in good health, as 1 am now” £ tionalitles, the interrusion of so many races and types, that any attempt to classify or even account for it, save as American, is futile. It has been said thaf™the ideal Amert- can type of the future will combine the head of a Greek statue, tresses of classic tint, the eyes of the odalisque, the fi tints of a Bouguercau, Roman shoulder: Ionian arms, Austrian bust and Boetian feet. She will be a marvelous being ani- mated with French savior fair Irish wit, German imagination, Russian adapt- abllity, Hindoo grace, Japanese talent and Indian fortitude. An American girl is wonderfully fine in her finish. She has a mingled complete~ ness and delicacy which make her per- fect in detall, like a line engraving. Tall, perchance, as a daughter of the gods, and slim as the legendary alder from which Odin made woman. Then there is the type which possesses picturesque charm—a type which fascin- ates quite as much as that which pos- sesses beautiful eyes and a Hamask rose complexion. Added to thig 13 a certain air of fine, keen brilliance, which conveys the idea of Intense vitality—the arch glance, the melting eye and the spirited carriage of the head. “Prettier, more attractive, more be- witching than the English woman,” s Hall Caine’s verdict on the American girl. He qualifies it, how by adding, “but not so regularly beautiful.” The English ideal of womanly loveliness is something quite different from the product of American environment—calm- er, less vivacious, more regular and stat- uesque, less bewitching and beguiling. The pretty Irish girl ia a charming type —blue-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, well-rounded, with soft, brown hair. A grace and fascination all her own belongs to a Russian girl. BShe knows the value of her glancing eye and the tendril twist of her halr. The girl of Flanders must be tall graceful, with blue eyes and halr burnished gold. Brought up on grapes, their warmth and bloom get Into the blood of the Span- ish girl, and give her a loveliness that is as intoxicating as wine—an exquisite type. Tha little Dutch beauty has & complexion and flaxen locks, are always coquettishly arranged. Teutonls approval is for the buxom damsel, with & smooth pink and white skin. No Circassian maiden can be attractive unless she have finely arched lps and a .. o figur “Beautiful as an sagel,” an Itallan cavaller of his lady love. T oyes are large, humid and with long curling lashes. Next to the iy of the eye is the beauty of the teeth. The Italian girl is also blessed with magnificent halr. Each M"adl‘ hlz would seem, bas its own ideal, and the poet asks despairingly, “What s beauty?” ““What all women think they possess,” answers the cynic. “Ask_your mirror,” says the French. man. But the philosopher replies, “It is that which every lover gees in his sweet- heart, whether she possesses it or not.” (Copyrighted, 1%06, by T. C. McClure.) Sometimes they were even more formal than this. When I was fourteen I re- celved a letter which began in this way: “Respected Miss.” Nobody would think of starting a letter in that fashion to- day, and taking ome's pen in hand and the allusion to & few lines has quite gone out. Write naturally as if your friend were In the room with you, and you were cozily chatting with her. It is proper to address a stranger as My Dear Mrs. C.." and not as “Dear Mrs. C.” The personal pronoun adds a touch of ceremony. ‘Dearest” is to be reserved for those to whom it applies, mother or sister, or the chum who is your very confidential friend, and almost your other self. If you are obliged to write a business letter, address the firm or the person by name, following it on other line *Dear Sirs,” or “Dear Sir,” or “M First, last and all the time, rg a letter as a thing with which pains Shoulg be taken. Long vears hence the letter a girl writes may come back to her out of the past for, strangely enough, letters ara emong the most indestructible of earthly Ppossessions. (Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) -