HOW TO RETAIN BEAUTY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 November 1913, Page 2

HOW TO RETAIN BEAUTY.

Tin' physical beauty oi' women should last until arc past- fifty. .Nor does beauty reach its zenith under the age ot" thirty-five or forty. Helen of Trov comes on the stage at the ;j>go of forty. Aspasia was thirty-six when ie a tried to Pericles, and she was a brilliant igure thirty vears thereal'te.'.

Cleopatra was past thirty when she met Antony. Diane do Poictier was thirty-six when she won the heart of Henry IT. The king was half her age. but his devotion never changed. Anne of Austria, was .thivtjreiiibt when" described as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Madame do Maintenon was* forty-three when United to Louis, and Catherine of Russia thirtythree when she seized the throne §he occupied for thirty-five years. The old saw about s.-weet sixteen Is exploded by the knowledge that' the highest beauty does not dwell in immaturity., For beauty does not mean alone the graceful form and colouring, a.s found in tho waxen doll. The dew df youth and a complexion of roses somi'ti nes combine in a face that,is iinmoving and unresponsive, as though lacking utterly the life spark. A woman's best and most attractive years are from twenty-six to forty, It is a great error for any woman to regard herself as "passe" at an earlier day.

In the course* of years, however, a -time Arrives when the Coming of ago ■must be recognised,.when the muscles begin to relax, the skin to lose its youthful tint, and roundness and softness give place to angles. Contentment, and good homour will still outrival all melical inventions as pre? servative of youth. A woman, beautiful in all else, but wanting mirth, will grow old, sour, thin, and sallow, while the merry, fun-loving woman will be fresh and ii'niable, despite life's trials and sorrows.

Every poi son should sleep alone, and all physicians support this injunction. A buoyant girl will bo rendered irritable, ill, and imbecie by sleeping with a sullen, morose woman. ■ . ■ '

This matter is understood in Oriental countries far better than in Western nations. Every girl is recommended to make a study of beauty — but beauty of the rear kind, and noit tho fictitious typo of cramped figure, gaudy apparel, and the liberal use of rougo washes. True beauty depends, in a great degree, on plain- living and high thinking—an bloqd, good habits, and brains.

The difference between genuine and meretricious-beauty is well understood by our ra-ce- according to its own standards. Temperance, purity and exercise create an external beauty indicating interior excellence.