ATTRACTIVE WOMEN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 1647, 11 March 1922, Page 6

ATTRACTIVE WOMEN.

THE ART OF BEING NATURAL,

SECRETS OF STYLE AND GRACE

Is there a normal woman on the face of the earth who does not wish to be considered attractive? If so, her sex would be quite justified in disowning her; she is a betrayer of their interests, a renegade, a slacker. It is one of the important duties of life for a woman to cultivate her appearance. Powder and paint aie only admissions of failure; confessions of a lazy mind concerning a lazy body. The well-groomed woman disdains such adventitious aids, though well she knows that, for the sake of her own dignity and selfrespect, she must assiduously study her type, her age, and her pursuits if she is to develop a personal and distinctive style that will suit her make the very best of each of her good points—under all conditions.

The Craving for Beauty.

It is not altogether that she may be attractive to the opposite sex that a woman instinctively desires to make the best of herself, though, to be frankly truthful—human nature being what it is that motive cannot be entirely denied. Chiefly for her own delight or to satisfy the instinctive feminine craving for beauty in everything concerning her person and possessions, the woman of decent up-bringing gives thought and infinite care to her appearance. It is the well-groomed woman of whom I speak —she who in a little cotton gown stands out as something eminently pleasant to behold, often eclipsing by her freshness and good, healthy, clean-minded air her silkclad sister, who has resorted to the usual artifices for her adornment. You see the difference in the women’s minds; one is direct, goes straight for the object she aims at, acquiring’ a beauty which is moie than skin deep. The other is content to pause half-way in her quest; her nature is susceptible to the allurements of a subterfuge by no means subtle; she is satisfied with the pitiful palliative of a very evident “make-up.”

“Bring me a nice clean one,” were the parting instructions of a young man the other evening to his hostess, as she set out to find him a partner at her dance. And, turning to an elderly woman who had known him all his life, he explained that he could not stand the perfumed peris who left lingering traces of Morny or Coty on his coal, and as for the cherry lips and rosebud cheeks, for whose tint Nature was not responsible,, “the truth is not in them,” he brutally remarked.

The Art of Captivating. A very rude young man, no doubt; but there are many who share his sentiments. Make-up spoils a woman’s manner —she cannot help being conscious of it, and the consciousness always shows. The brightness of well brushed hair, the clearness of a carefullytended skin, the easy, steady look of eyes that do not shrink from broad daylight—these are charms to hold and keep the heart and interest of everybody. The woman who sets out to captivate only men will find that she has succeeded in captivating' — only men. That is a poor compromise to accept when she might have the whole world at her feet. Imitation looks inspire imitation sentiments. There are no short cuts to the high places of love and honour.