Lovely Woman.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4362, 19 January 1909, Page 4

Lovely Woman.

A woman, writing to an English paper, protests against “ the n3ver-varying talk as to the personal appearance of women. It is really tragic that we should for ever be dogged with this necessity. Very few are bom goodlooking, and they themselves have nothing to do with it. It lasts but a few years. Is not character, disposition, or temperament, which are all more or less within their own control and powers of training, of infinitely more importance ?” the writer asks.

On the subject, the Bulletin adds :—A broken complexion is worse than the breakage of the whole Decalogue. The fat lady, who cannot wear the Directoire gown is condoled with more deeply than if she had lost a beloved liusbaud—or failed to get one at all. She is told how to train .down, and to obliterate all but one ehir. Anon' the woman with lines on her neck is reminded that by those lines her age is made known to other women, and she is instructed in the art of ironing herself out Smooth. According to the gospel of Saint Face-Massage and the epistle of the Apostle ''kin-Food, there nesd be no bad figures, no mottled complexions, no poor hair, no lines on face or neck. “ Hold yonr head up and your eyes will appear larger,” says one voice crying in the wildeaness of cosmetics. *• Worry makes wrink’es under the chin,” wuls another of the wives of Solomon Eagle “ Guard against your month collapsing at the corners,” says a third Cassandra, as if anyone can defy the law& of nature. No wonder some one has arisen to protest against being dogged by the personal ap--pearance bogey.

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