UNASSISTED BEAUTY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2040, 1 May 1890, Page 4

UNASSISTED BEAUTY.

This ia a refreshing candour and simplicity about the young lady who signs herself “ Unassisted Beauty ” in the columns of an English contemporary. The fair correspondent—she incidentally remarks that both herself and sisters have “ a very fair share of good looks”—writes with a view of ridiculing those girls who, in their extreme anxiety about their personal' appearance, adopt “ the troublesome plan of using so many and various cosmetics.” Such a course, we are assured, is useless-care and a little forethought, about eating and drinking are really all that are necessary. That, at any rate, is the experience of the young lady and her sisters, who lead a healthy, open-air life, and are, one might conclude from the foregoing, veritable children of nature. But, stop —are the good looks which they boast so entirely “ unassisted ? ” They subordinate their appetite to personal appearance by curtailing their consumption of bread, vegetables, and liquids. They constantly wear well-' fitting, well-laced corsets. (Do they discriminate between “ well-laced ” and “ tight-laced ? ” Some ladies, it is said, are not able to.) They wear gloves habitually—always out of doors, and even in the house when doing anything likely to injure their hands. They use cold cream occosionally for their faces, after being exposed on the river or after yachting. ' hey wear broad-brimmed hats, and sometime’s veils, when the weather requires it. And, what is not a little remarkable in a bevy of “unassisted” beauties—the youngest sister, who is just seventeen, keeps her figure encased night and day in corsets “to preserve a remarkably slender waist, of which she is rather vain ! ” After this a few particulars anent “ assisted beauty ” would be acceptable. Perhaps, however, some people will exclaim—to parody a familiar saw—“ Beauty unassisted is assisted the most.”