CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 305, 26 December 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

MIND MOULDS FORM

SUBJECT OF DIET.

(By A PARIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.)

Women in their constant endeavour to secure personal beauty often make a fundamental mistake which grievously defeats their efforts. They fan" to realise that beauty comes from within. It is beautiful thoughts and beautiful feelings that will give beauty to the face, and it is the perfect performance and perfect correlation of the functions of the body which gives beauty to the frame.

Not all the face creams in the world can vie with a poem appreciated, to lend beauty to expression, nor all the contrivances of the beauty parlour, match a morning's exercise in the open air, to give clearness to the skin or lightness to the carriage.

Besides expression, what, we may ask, are the most important elements in female beauty. A clear complexion and a graceful figure surely ranks high if not highest of all.

Nature does not endow all women alike with these lovely attributes, but every woman of average health and build, can do much to acquire them. And the things that she should do are often the very things she neglects, while

she spends time and trouble over more expensive and less effective measures. Take Care of the Face. Take care of the skin, for example. Elaborate creams and expensive salts are rarely necessary. Most bath salts, indeed, are to be used sparingly, for they are made with soda, which has a drying, ageing, cracking effect on the skin.

It is natural to desire a pleasant perfume in the bath, but it is better to get this with liquid eau-de-cologne, than with crystals. A glass of water on rising, accompanied, for those who need it, by a dose of salts, and then five minutes "physical exercise," followed by ten minutes' rest on the back in bed, make a sound beginning of the day for the woman who intends to keep slim and active. During the day, let her spend

at least an hour walking in the open air, and let her drink as much water as she can between meals. A Mistake. There are many mistaken notions prevalent. Many people think, for example, that drinking much water makes people fat. This is an entirely mistaken notion. . Almost the only bearing that water has on the matter is, that if you drink it with your meals it enables you to eat more, and to that extent helps to fatten you. Consequently, the frequent and correct advice to drink water by itself, and not at meal times. People are surprised by the fact that tall thin people are often huge eaters, and they therefore argue that much eating cannot be responsible for making people fat. They do not understand that the tall thin person needs more food than the short, fat one, and, therefore, can eat more without getting fat.

This is because from this much greater surface extent, the tall person gets rid of much more heat than the short fat person. The fat person needs comparatively little food to support his body heat, and he can bear starvation, or partial starvation, better than the lean person, because of the body's capacity to feed on its own deposit of fat.

Many drastic systems have been devised and practised for fat reduction. Many of them are harmful. What my readers require is a system of living by

which they can reduce unwanted fats without interfering seriously with their ordinary mode of life. Reduction must be scientifically managed, but it is the first essential in any sensible system of weight-reduction. Baths and massage may help, and exercise certainly does, but the reduction of the amount of food consumed is thp one thing of prime importance. < When it comes to laying down definite diet, it must be remembered that no two people are exactly alike. One can easily put on weight on a diet which only just suffices to keep up the body weight of another, apparently similar individual, and one person may find his energy much depreciated, by a reduction in diet, which will not interfere at all with the activities of another man of parallel physical' buijd.