BEAUTY MATHEMATICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19060, 3 July 1925, Page 14

BEAUTY MATHEMATICS.

If you want to look fascinating brush up your mind. No one can grow flowers without putting in seeds; and yet in the matter of good looks that is just what most of us try to do. So many folks, quite without realising it, think the very same thoughts over and over; day by day, and then wonder that they look stodgy and dull, say? a contemporary writer. Don't do it; treadmill thoughts are invariably drab, and often peevish, and consequently can make havoc of even perfect features. Often girls buy lipsticks and powderpuffs when they would get more lasting results if they bought books of a really worth-while sort. The simple truth is that brainless beauty is no longer admired in these post-war days, and a girl has to have more than mere wax-doll prettiness if she is to be admired. And as the face mirrors the mind, one has to have a vivici and intelligent mind if one is to get a good reflection. They lift facei by surgery nowadays, but the woman who keeps her mind active and a storehouse of interesting facts will never need that operation. If I recommended algebra to shape the eyebrows, and geometry to improve the complexion, yon would laugh; and yet I should not be so far wrong. If there is nothing else to be said for education, it does improve the looks; the "public school" stamp on tho features is an attractive thing. And perhaps, even if we cannot all go in for higher education as a variety oi "beauty parlour," we can provide at small expense good mental food for oar sluggish minds and see that we do not become apathetic and half-asleep.