USEFUL HINTS FOR UGLY GIRLS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 2

USEFUL HINTS FOR UGLY GIRLS.

"No woman likes to be ugly, but she who is born a beauty is fortunate indeed. But let not the plain, or even the ugly girl despair of acquiring a sufficient amount of beauty to render her attractive. When a woman loses a desire to please she loses half her charms. Nothing is more conducive to beauty than cheerfulness and good humor, and no sickly or unhappy woman can be good-humored and cheerful. Every woman ought to understand that nothing short of deformity can make a woman utterly unattractive, provided she will study her points; and points of attractiveness every woman has. A thoroughly refined, graceful manner can be acquired by any woman and is a powerful charm. The best grace is perfect naturalness; still, you must study yourself and form your manners by the rule of that art, which is but a carrying out of the law of nature. But if it is your nature to be forever assuming some unpicturesque, ungraceful attitude, pray help nature with a little art. If you are stout, avoid the smallest chair in the room. If you are thin, do not carry yourself with your chin protruding and your spinal column curving like the bowl of a spoon. Do not wear flimsy material made up without a ruffle or puff or flounce to fill up the hard outlines, of your bad figure, so cruelly defined by the tightly pulled-back draperies. Study the art of dress. We once knew a very plain woman who dressed so tastefully that it was an absolute pleasure to look at her. If you have been, moping till you are sick with the thought of your hopeless ugliness, be up and doing.