HOME TREATMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 13

HOME TREATMENT

JUDGING BEAUTY.

(By PERITUS.)

In health and cleanliness, dress, drink and diet, posture, walk and carriage, expression, voice control, every woman has some opportunity of training herself to such standard of beauty as the time suggests or demands. Poets and artists, and in less degree actors and dress designers influence the. current idea of beauty in women. A Frenchman of note once said that a girl should be judged by twenty-seven points. She should have Three things white: Skin, teeth, and hands. Three things black: Eyes, eyelashes, and eyebrows. Three tilings red: Lips, cheeks, and nails. Three things long: Body, hair, and hands. Three things short: Teeth, cars, and feet. Three things broad: Chest, forehead, and space between the eyebrows. Three things slight: Mouth, waist, and instep. Three things fat: Anns, thighs, and calves. Three things small: Nose, head, and breasts. The value of long hair rests in its easy adaptation to various types of face and shape of head. Plaited, coiled or built up or smoothed down, the hair may be made to add appearance, height, or to enhance beauty, as a frame docs a picture. All the other points have been left unaltered and are possessed by right of birth. Artificial aid may affect four of the points, five perhaps, but on the whole they are born and not made. Old books and magazines often reveal a type of beauty (of society or the stage) which must make the girls of to-day hopelessly envious, and most of these old and almost forgotten types had something in them the poets name "soul," viz., expression. The eyes of greed, of brazenness, of untruth, and of shame, all reveal the soul within, and these qualities, as seen in the eyes, are clearly revealed to all men but the very young. The actress alone can defy the world to read her expression, for she trains it to deceive. Think only good things and you will look good and happy, for the growing face is moulded to growing thought.