BEAUTY BY SUGGESTION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1749, 13 September 1905, Page 26

BEAUTY BY SUGGESTION.

HOW THE FRENCH GIRL IS TAUGHT. French women have from time immemorial been looked upon a® authorities as regards, the cult of beauty, and in many eases they guard their beauty secrets as carefully as. the necromancer of old guarded his magic lore. The New York “Sun, ’* however, publishes, the frank avowal of French women concerning the art of fascination as inculcated in her from her earliest- youth. “I am ’ beautiful;'• said this French woman “because I know I am beautiful. I am descended ‘ from a long race of proud French women. "In our childhood

we are taught that we are beauties. That thought is drilled into us and it never leaves us. To know you are beautiful is half the battle. "I was early taught to carry myself like a beauty. And then the art of be- / ing beautiful was drilled into me. “Any woman in the world can become beautiful with the ten secrets of beauty at her command. When I was a child and steadily on until I was 18 I was taught that BEAUTY WAS AN ACQUIRED THING ‘Beauty comes and goes,’ my nurse said to me; And I was taught that you could control its going and coming. “The first of the ten French beauty commandments is, Have a clear skin. No matter how dark it may be, let it be clear —as clear as wine, as clear as crystal, as clear as a drop of pure honey. Let there be no freckles, no liver spots, no blotches. Let your skin be of milky softness. “The second beauty commandment relates to the hands. Have beautiful hands is a strict command _in the French canons of beauty. Don’t let your bands grow old. “Then in succession come these laws: “Keep your teeth white. ‘Keep the wrinkles out of your forehead. ‘Keep your step light. ‘Keep your voice low and clear. “Keep your chin oval. ‘Keep your throat slender. “There are other commands, and the most important is, Keep your eyes bright. Don’t use them in the dim light. Don’t read while you rock. Don’t let the dust settle in them and remain there overnight. Don’t strain your eyes, and don’t try to clear them by rubbing them. “Cry a little every day, if you must, for women who cry easily always have beautiful eyes; but keep them bright, anyway • “The next of the French bdauty secrets relates to the smile. The French woman smiles a great deal. It is a queer little smile, and sometime® like her shrug, it looks artificial. But it is her stock in trade. Without her smile the French woman would be far less attractive than she is. “The only other nation in the world that understands the art of smiling is the Japanese. The Japanese woman knows all about the smile. “She uses it on any and every occasion. She smiles when she meets you on the street. She smiles at the table. She smiles when she embroiders. She smiles all the time. It is not an annoying smile, but a pretty one. “The French woman understands the secret of the smile and the value of it. At your first b on-mot she will smile. At your second she will smile and shrug heir shoulders appreciatively. She will smile at your witticisms, and flatter you into thinking they are good. She ie

WONDERFUL IN HER. SMILE is the French woman. It isv a wide, beautiful smile, and she shows a fine row of perfectly kept teeth. Smile often, and show your teeth, i® one of the French beauty precepts. “The French woman, while she does not believe in red cheeks, is a firm believer in red lips, and to keep her lip® red she will bite them. She will put aleohol upon them, she will touch them at night with a good lip lotion, and she will keep her circulation good in order that her lips may he bright. “The French woman pay® the utmost attention to her hair. It must be glossy, and her preference is for dark hair. She is less partial to the light shades, and she does not even fancy red hair, which is the aim and aspiration of every American woman.

“If your hair is perfectly dressed you will be beautiful is one of the French beauty maxims, and the French woman never forgets.it. She dresses her hair as it should be dressed every hour of the day. She show® off her wide forehead, she displays her lovely neck curves, she exhibits her best points, and site hides her other one®. ,

“A French beauty secret is that of hiding your poor traits. If your ears are big, cover them with little> ear curls. These are only tiny wisps of hair, but they can he coaxed to lie in pretty artistic waves over the ears. “And the same with the temples. If they are high and bald they can be coaxed into beauty, by curling the hair upon them so tha- fe the locks lie in little temple curls. They 'are easy to> manage. If your own hair will not kink in this way you can add hairpin curls just to cover the temples. “The French woman has one beauty secret which should he known to every woman under the sun, IT IS SO BEWITCHING, so fetching, so feminine, and so unstudied. It is that of perfume. “Never does the French woman obtrude her perfumes upon you. But she has the knack of being fully perfumed without appearing to be so. “She understands the subtle art of incense without heaviness. You whiff a delicious odour as that of a garden. But there is none of that cloying sweetness of the topics. It is a charming fragrance. “Another attractive French woman has a habit of laying her necklaces, ribbons, and strings of heads away in scented boxes. The result is that her throat is always delicately scented. As fox* her clothing, it hangs in a clothes press that is lovely with scent-o

“There is a decided trick in accentuating your eyes. Wear clothing that matches the spots in your eyes. If your eyes are blue, have a blue waist, or blue ornaments, or blue jewellery, or blue trimmings, or a blue hat. The blue will bring out the blue of your eyes.’’