BEAUTY DESTROYERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3000, 10 February 1917, Page 5

BEAUTY DESTROYERS

A well-known nerve specialist maintains that women would not suffer from nerves if they would control their moods and cultivate a happy frame of mind. "Anger," says the specialist, "congests tile brain, throws every organ into disorder, flushes tho face, causing, if often repeated, a bloated condition. Worry degresses the nerves and heart, and by its effect on the blood makes the skin sallow. Irritability produces indigestion, and is one of the greatest causes of wrinkles. Grief and sadness destroy the appetite, rob the skin of its bloom, and the eyes of tlieir lustre. Fear, envy, malice, anxiety,) melancholy,. and all other disagreeable emotions lower tho health and leave their marks on tho face." Asked bow such emotions were to be avoided in this time of general stress and trouble, the doctor said that ninetenths of the harmful feelings had no sufficient cause: they were presented to the mind and accented, and in time thov became habitual. J "Something goes sorionslv wrong, for instance," ho said, "antTa woman gets angry; tho next time she becomes angry for a less cause, and the next time for a still smaller cause, and finally she begins to look for causes of anw. "This is the way," he continued, "all hurtful emotions get a hold on the mind. At the beginning it would be an *asy matter to refuse them admittance, but T must recognise that most peoolo are the victims of these bad habits that have become rooted, and in them it is no casr matter to effect a cure. Still, it can he done." Asked how the cure was to be effected the specialist replied: "I would advise every woman to set, about the task bv first putting herself through a searching examination and discovering her most pronouneed faults. This being done, she must devote a few minutes every morniiif to forming a strong resolution to avoid these faults during t.he daw and to fill her mind witVtheir opposites. F.vervMiiebt. she must ask herself how far she has been successful, ?"d reneat iior resolution. It is marvellous how a good resolution made when goinrr to sleep grows and strengthens during the ni<dit, and gives a good start to the following (lav. But it is not, onlv morning and night, but every hour of the day. that she. must take control nf her moods. Anger mav eome on suddenly; worrv and anxietv may take possession of tho thoughts by stealth, and irritability mav seem_ impossible to avoid. But if the linbit is only cultivated, it is as ensv to be cheerful as low-m'rited, good-humoured as sullen. .T"inhlo as b»d-tonipered."— Sydney "Dailv Telegraph."