CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

! ' CHARM OF GIRLS. .! — — t, THE LONELY ONES. v, (T?y a Paris Beauty Specialist.) j . ? There is no question that some girls I are so born with that indefinable charm 1 jtor men that little efiort is required of I hem to attract a swarm of suitors. Exactly what the component parts of this "appeal consist of is difficult to analyse. 1 ,\o one ha.- done it successfully yet. 1 Some have laid it to sex appeal,* others •to beauty. Again, it has been ascribed to a merry disposition. A dozen different ( definitions have been attempted, but , none seems to cover the popularity of all „ ' I'e popular girls, the lonely one watches, , with envy and bewildernient. [, So. for the benefit of the "lonely ones." _ let us tackle the problem from their [ point of view, rather than waste time on .the girl born with the power to attract, iShe is well taken care of. i' ' Why Try to Imitate Others? i Accept this type ot girl as you accept I:i L-irl born with superlative beauty. If j you i n't :-.e like her, you just can't, and i the .s no use trying. That doesn't ' . v ."u have to sit at home and ' lu " ' i,,! your tiuimbs. It does not mean • tor a moment that you cannot have men r jfriends, that you must make up your mind to be a wall-flower, as far as they are concerned, and even to spinsterhood jlor tho rest of your days. You may not

lit; able to attract an many men, nor a: I snowy a type ot man, but for every gir\ who is lonuly there is a man who is i lonely 100. ILe is the solution for the J lonely girl problem. | In almost every girl's acquaintanceship, in her business environment, or at !any social gathering, she will find, if she lused her eyes to see him, and her wits to | ferret liim out, a boy who is shy, suffering the identical qualms of feeling liimjself superfluous, and quite possibly, ; wondering why "Hill" can get so many girls, and he can't get any. He is the boy for the girl who is not over-sought to pin her hopes on. Maybe you think that's not a promising outlook tor you? But you never can tell about just what they will amount to a few years hence, when some girl takes the shy ones in tow, and buoys them up with courage and assurance. Armed With Self-Consciousness. •Armed with a little self-consciousness, a sincere interest in others, and an agreeable manner, any girl can put unhappiness to rout. We live in an ago where we are taken pretty much at the value we set on ourselves. If we are willing to admit for a moment that no one cares about us, that we are unnecessary to anv one's happiness, the bald fact must !*■ faced that it is so. A certain amount of assurance you must have. You cannot feel you are unpopular, and that you are going to rfbiain unpopular always, without having others sense the depression

! Instead of envying tlie favourites of [your group, look at tlie girls who have no more native charm than you have, who dress no better than you, who dance no better than you, and tell yourself, if they can get invitations, so can you, or you are going to know the reason why. l'ut a little spirit into this campaign. I don't think there is anything wrong with the way you lonely ones dress, nor the way you look, but it is the spirit with which you meet people, and more especially men, that counts against you. You have no faith in yourselves, and only you can cultivate that. If You Have a Disagreeable Manner. | Of course, if you have a disagreeable manner, a formidable one, a curt way of addressing people, these things count against you, but they cannot be changed. Usually the lonely ones are more afflicted with an inferiority complex than with any other ailment, and that simply gets you nowhere in this world, and the sooner you work yourself up to a good wholesome appreciation of your own value, the quicker you'll dispel those lonely hours in your life. Loneliness is the mast destructive thing in the world for you. The foolish things, the desperate things, it will drive some people to, makes it an appalling vice to encourage in yourself. No one need be lonely, really, if he, or she, can adjust the values of life, and separate the gold from the glitter. There is a lot of selfishness about encouraging oneself to hide away, and neither give friendship where it is needed, nor ask it for yourself.

Beauty Hints. I Exaggerated slimuess is not beautiful. Flio present silhouette of woman is a disgraceful caiicature of tlie ideal female form.

Cleopatra explained confidentially) that the beauty on which lier devastating reputation was built, was due to the fact that she had nine hours' sleep everv night. Helen whispered that perfect nutrition had enabled her to maintain a sweet disposition during the more trying periods of the Trojan war. ' ° A "cave-woman." clad in brief tunic, 'and a great many beads, would, were she alive to-day, exhort her women friends ito stick to the simple life. J Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat. attributed her premature demise to lack of good spinach. The fashionable figure of the moment corresponds neither to that of Venus, nor to that of Diana. It tends towards emaciation, and it is brought about by) deliberate and continuous deprivation and starvation. By frequent hot baths, Turkish baths, massage, the squeezing, and the strapping of the body, and by rubber corsets! A modest degree of comfortable plumpness is not altogether unattractive. )