YOUR FORTUNE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16431, 6 January 1917, Page 6 (Supplement)

YOUR FORTUNE.

THE SECRET. I think the secret lies in making the best of things. It is quite an art making the best of your face, you know. And if you aren't blessed with classic features, and hair that looks as if it had been born Marcel waved, your best plan is to no ahead and tee what you can do with the gifts the gods have given you. Lots of people would advise starting with the complexion; invest first in a jar |of good cold cream, they would Bay. But there is something one must do first. No ono ever looks twice at the girl who looks as if everything in the world bored her. There is no pleasure in looking At the girl who has a vacant, non-intelligent expression. The faces people look at, ire those which are "lit up from the inside." And these faces belong to the folks who take an interest in other people. They look at life as if it were something they had paid money to come in and see. They recognise that the streets of the city, with all its various types, and its love stories, and its little and big tragedies, are far, fan more interesting than any picture shows. And it is this knowledge that gives them this "alive" look. Y9U can copy it, by keeping your eyes open for everything which comes across your vision. ft is as if you said " Goodness, what a funny thing life is. Why did I never see it before! 1 What a blind bat I've been." Learn to ListenLearn to listen, not half-heartedly, but with your whole soul in your eyes. Put yourself into the place of the person who is talking to you and you will find yourself feeling for them in either their joy or sorrow. You will learn that most precious gift. . . the gift of sympathy. The selfish girl's face is never her fortune. If she is pretty it is a soulless prettiness, and there are dozens of people who never can see that she is pretty at all. And if she is plain, she is plain and no mistake. No soft, tender expression ever illumines her face. She is utterly absorbed in self, and too soon self lays its ruthless hand on her. Her face bocomes hard. Once you have found yourself, taught yourself t-o look at the world with wondering and interested eyes, learn to feel for others, you will have a new and outstanding beauty that defiies all other kinds. For it is a beauty of the soul. "And then. . . well, then, you can make a start with the cold cream, the massage, the hair drill, and all the rest of it. Your time won't be wasted cither. Every moment spent in improving ontv's personal appearance is a moment which j will repay itself an hundredfold.