CAN WE ACQUIRE BEAUTY?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1235, 21 April 1914, Page 4

CAN WE ACQUIRE BEAUTY?

This is a question that will 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 Kverylady’s Journal” for April hits upon a live topic when it gives the views—and the portraits —of a number 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 “Everylady’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,” lor example, advocates dancing, and says that even the oft condemned Tango has Its advantages as a healthexerciser. Miss Murray, a Scottish champion, votes for swimming. Miss Meryl Waxraau says that tennis is the game to make a girl healthy and beautiful. Miss Webb is an ardent supporter of systematic physical culture, and Miss Chris Lorimer advances the opinion that lendug gives a woman a mental poise and a physical beauty far above the average. But the most commonsense and practical adviser of all is a Toorak society belle, who declares that no sport or dumbbell movements known to science can touch plain housework for allround development and healthy exercise.

There are scores of other interesting and useful contributions to this April issue. The cover indicates the latest notes in fashion, from underwear to millinery. There are articles, frivolous aud learned interviews with Harry Lauder and other famous people, and a world of practical information of a household nature. No better sixpenny magazine, foreign or home grown, has yet appeared on the market than “Kverylady’s Journal.”