TO RETAIN A YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8309, 6 May 1905, Page 3

TO RETAIN A YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE.

Oommonsoase aad. Neatness. | (_few Tork Sun.) " How old am I?" asked a woman who was sunning herself in the sun parlour of a winter resort. "I have learned the secret of disguising my age. I do not do. it by legerdemain. Ido it by actualities. "Legerdemain and may do for a time. But you can't keep on fooling people in such a. matter. You must let them see you in your real light sooner or later. "Here. am I, a woman of uncertain years, looking a great deal younger than I really am: And when I am ten years older I expect to look a great deal younger .still. It. is all a matter, of learning how to look young. "Here, off-hand, are a few of my rules. They are. not set and absolute, but they will do as a sort of guide. " Dress younger than you are. Never dress older. . ...,..- .;■ "Never wear old ladies' clothes, no matter how old you get to be. Forget caps and wraps and shawls and easy chair gowns. " Keep your figure young. You cannot hope to look young if your figure isvold. - ,:,.,- . P . "When you look in the lookirigglass, gaze at yourself from the back, not from, the front. If you look old, that is the point of view from which to realise the fact. "Beware of what Kate Field called the middle-aged figure. It is round in the shoulders and hunched up in the belt-line. is a certain rolypoly look about tlie woman who is older than she ought to be: ' T Take care of your hair. Straggly hair goes with old ag&. Old people forget to shampoo, and they give up waving their locks. 4 "Don't let your hands get bony. Bony fingers belong* to the aged. Keep the knuckles' plump by the use of a plumping cream. < t ' _ ' ;> ''**' Watch your boots. Flat old shoes, sloppy, and unattractive, are affected by old women. You oan generally guage a woman's age by, the looks of her heels. , "Beware of hobbies. "Don't be too opinionated. Don't have your mind irrevocably set on all subjects. Be changeable. Be youthful and ready. Young people are never set in their ways. "Take care of your expressiori. The look of settled sadness comes over most faces at forty. Though you are sixty, force your lips to smile. " Lift them at the corners and make them bow. Do this if you are one hundred, even though your teeth be false and your cheeks flabby. You can Btill force your lips to smile. "Keep your teeth nice. Old people are apt to neglect them. Nice white teeth are the property of every attractive young woman. You can't be a nice young-looking- woman if your teeth are neglected. " Sit Up straight, walk erect, and be brisk in your manner. Old people are tired all the time. ' If you feel tired, take walking exercises .and massage, and get rid of that tired' feeling. "Don't act old if you want to be young. . "These aro pimple rules and there is nothing strange about them. But they are hard to follow, judging by the number of women who do not follow them.- Yet all women want to look young. "How to walk well is a thing all old women should learn. The minute a woman, gets slack in her ways she begins to walk badly. "The old woman who wants to be young mi^st learn all over again how to walk. And before she does this she must learn how to stand. Stand well and you will walk well is a pretty good rule. "To stand well your feet must be comfortable. Few old women are able to stand well because they have aches and pains which make their feet ill at ease. " Feet can be kept comfortable by rubbing them with vaseline every night. They can be kept comfortable by changing the shoes every day. Never wear the same pair of shoes all day long. If the shoes feel hard and stiff, rub them with oil.' Stockings should fit the feet. , " And when the matter of shoes and stockings has been arranged there should come the. question of heels. As soon as a woman feels old and tired, she begins to wear low heels. Have, your heels of good height. /'Preserve the arch of the foot. Don't ; let your feet grow flat. Try always to have trim, neat-looking. shoes. These are excellent foot rules for any woman. "Now about the walk. An English instructor gives these rules for walking young: — • K "' To walk young walk erect. Bring the abdomen in. Throw the chest out. Take long steps. Place the feet at right angles, or as nearly as you can. Lift the chin. Throw back the head. Raise the eyea. Breathe deeply* Arid dori't' mince.' " Learn body 'balance. Stand on one foot several hours each day. You will riever walk well if you do not learn to balance yourself. "Swimming girls always wallc-well. They get a certain slender' adroitness in their movements. They get a- cer-. tain poise, a gait, a swiftness "which is most attractive to the walker. "There is one infallible rule for walking well. If you are slim, walk rapidly. Nothing is more pdetio than the sight of a. slim, pretty girl gliding over the ground as fast as her feet will carry her. "There is always a suggestion of j litheness which is very attractive and in some cases bewitching. Diana at the

chase walked rapidly over the ground, going so swiftly that she might have been running. " Walking swiftly is all very for the slim woman. But the woman who weighs 1801 b should walk slowly. There is a dignity of carriage which she should adopt."