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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 3

A "SENSIBLE” BEAUTY

"Beauty," said Elizabeth, is a talent. Cultivate it, and it increases tonfold; bury it in a napkin, and it dies. "Im other words,” she added for the benefit of her puzzled little friend, "if you don't take car© of your looks, you soon, won't have any left to take care of. The Bride looked sad. She was a pretty little thing, very dependent on her colouring for her charm. In the strong light her small face was revealed as being a shade too powdered, the eyelashes darkened artificially; the, soft hair a trifle too obviously "waved." Her strong-minded friend Elizabeth sat with tho late afternoon sun pouring over her face and hair, and revealing no flaw in her exquisite skin. Her sober dress was a foil to the whiteness of her nedk and the smooth forehead from which 'the golden hair rippled back. Dark eyebrows and long curling lashes emphasised the clearness of her eyes. She was*good to look at. Yet Elizabeth was apparently scornful of her own good looks, cared little about pretty frocks, and ran a Government department with the greatest efficiency and common seinse. "Elizabeth," said the Bride, "it's all very well for you to be sneering about powder and things, but you've got a perfect skin and gorgeous hair. I have to make up a bit." "My dear child," said Elizabeth, “of course I take reasonable car© of my looks, just as I wash my hands and shine my shoes. You can't leave everything to nature; we all start well enough Took at babies' skins—but we don't wear well. All this powder has a good enough effect —for a time—but sooner or later your skin gets course and there's no hiding it." , . . _ “I wish/' said th© Bride, "that instead of lecturing you would tell me what to do. You say 'take care of your looks and 'don't powder/ but what shall I dor" “Vse your common sense/’ said Elizabeth. "If you thought deeply, you would soon see that making a mask of cream and powder over your face blocks up the pores and makes your skin rough and spotty. What you want is to peel off the soiled outer ekin and give the new one underneath a chance to show itself.Get some ordinary inercolised* wax from your chemist, rub it on at night, and wash it off with good soap and water in th© morning! * Or if you are in a h\ irr 7» wash your face first, and before it is quite dry, rub tho /wax on, and dry your face with a towel. Either of these processes absorbs the old soiled outer skin and leaves the new clean complexion underneath revealed in all its beauty. “But/’ objected the Bride, “my nose gets so shiny. I must powder." "There are other ways of preventing a. shimy nose/’ said Elizabeth. “My secret is a homely on?. Just get some

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