Can We Acquire Beauty?

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 17 April 1914, Page 4

Can We Acquire Beauty?

This is a question that -vi 1 i touch the heart of every lady reader, and though it may not be answered to every lady’s entire satisfaction, there is certainly a good deal of interest in knowing how other women have done it — or imagine they have, So that “ Evetylady’s Journal ” for April hits upon a live topic when it gives the views —and the portraits —of a n umber of leading women on “ How to be Beautiful.” It seems that beauty of figure is the great consideration rather than the beauty that is skin-deep, and we learn from the ladies who have given their views to “ Every lady's Journal ” that beauty, of both body and face will follow perfect health. This therefore, is the object to aim at, and the means suggested are many and various. Miss De Vere, the sprightly comedienne of “ The Dandies,” for example, advocates dancing, and says that even the oft-condemned Tango has its advantages as a health-exerciser. Miss Murray, a Scottish champion, votes for swimming. Miss Meryl Waxman says that tennis is the game to make a girl healthy and beautiful. Miss Webb is an a>'dent supporter of systematic physical culture, and Miss Chris Lorimer advances the opinion that fencing gives a woman a mental poise and a physical beauty far above the, average. But the most common-sense and practical adviser of all is’aToorak societylbelle, who declares that no sport or dum-betl movements known to science can touch plain housework for all-round development and healthy exercise. There are scores of other interesting and useful contibutions to this April issue. The cover indicates the latest notes in fashion, from underwear to millinery. There are articles, frivolous and learned interviews with Harry Lauder and other famous people, and a word of practical information of a household nature. No better sixpenny magazine, foreign or home-grown, has yet appeared on the market than Everylady,s Journal.”