Health And Beauty MAKE YOUR OWN MOUTH!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

Health And Beauty MAKE YOUR OWN MOUTH!

MONTAIGNE'S warning. "God |Vl, gave you your other features, but you make your mouth yourself," has often been quoted, but just as often lost sight of by woman in her eternal search for the beautiful. The efforts of r.iost women in this direction,- the direction of self-beauHfi-cation, are spasmodic, or at best periodic; they will faithfully devote themselves to care of the skin or to culture of the hair, for a little while, thev will concern themselves over the contour of the neck and throat and seek every means to correct it, if need be but, the beauty of the mouth, to acquire which, is a gradual and constant progress, will be ignored. Emerson say that "of all the features, I the mouth admits of the greatest beauty, I and the greatest deformity." It can be ' made a thing of beauty, a joy, so long i as that beauty lasts, or it may be hard I and Ugly, and indicative of all that is I base in. the human character: exquisi ' tively curved, and sensitive or gross. ' sensual, and selfish and hard. It may f express puvity of thought, contentment. peace and courage, or it may betray its , owner as a constant Vielder to the lower , impulses, self-seeking and impervious to the rights of others. To know the man or woman—watch, not the eyes," but the mouth. The •xpreasion of the eyes, in duress, may

be controlled temporarily, but the expression of the mouth follows the inner thoughts, and is a faithful ally to but one thing only, the actual facts of the case.

By--A Specialist

Size and the Shape The size and shape of the mouth do nut greatly matter in'jifdging the degree of beauty which it may possess, although obviously, here as elsewhere, moderation is best. A mouth neither too small nor too large, whose lips are neither too thick nor too thin, will more easily lend itself to the achievement of these expressions, which will endow it with beauty. The lips are the centre of the nerves, surrounded by a network of muscles, whose action changes with every thought. They register every change of feeling, just as accurately and as immediately as a barometer registers every change in the weather, and the expression which the lips will most frequently display is the one whach is brought to them the oftenest, the one which indicates the thoughts and feelings most frequentlv indulged in. As a man or woman thinketh, so, is he or she, so

far as the lips are concerned. Bitter, stern thoughts, cruel or deceitful ones, will write their message in the lines of the mouth, the thoughts of love and hope will celestialise it, and keep the lines beautiful. Thoughts and Mouths To illustrate just what the effect of thought is upon the mouth, think of the mouths of your friends as observed when they are engrossed in a task which interests them. Have you seen a woman cutting out a gown, whose mouth is in conjunction with her scissors? Haven't you seen satisfaction at the completion of a task, expressed by the mouth's gesture of completion, or a hard task of rubbing a spot off a gown, or ironing a bit of silk underwear, or the toe of a shoe rubbed up, accompanied by the absorption felt by the doer? Children so often imitate the facial expression of their nurses and governesses that many careful mothers choose pietty young women to be with their children in preference even to women whose experience possibly has fitted them in a far better degree for the actual training and care. A mouth, to have its best expression, need not smile continually by any means. Indeed, _ a smile should be indulged in far less frequently than most people believe, for the absence of the smile does not neces- «>■ ily mean the absence of good humour. Tue ' perpetual smile only wears down the corners of the mouth.

BEAUTY HINTS | J BELIEVE that the day is not far distant when artificial (obvious) J make-up will be left to the stage and to a certain class of women who announce their "calling" by its use. + ♦ ♦ + f JjWERY woman should have an inter--8 est of some kind that makes her i active and busy. It will keep her young. |** ♦ ♦ i rpHERE is nothing so good for the t hair as plenty of sunshine and fresh i air. ' ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ I little meat and some fish—but i good fish—much vegetables and fruit, ! no bread, no sugar and a little milk, j * * ♦ ♦ - woman can be handsome by the s force of features alone any more r than she can be witty by the help of i speech. [ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ; d° not neglect daily exercise in the open air, there is nothing "just as j good." r + ♦ + + . D o not invite infection. Keep aw'av from sneezing, weeping and cough- • ing people. Do not eat without washi ing your hands. Colds can be caugb' by swallowing germs.