SMILE AND KEEP YOUNG.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18395, 31 July 1931, Page 5

SMILE AND KEEP YOUNG.

DISTURBING THE MAKE-UP. Why is it that one sees so few faces which are really beautiful? Simply ■because most people are afraid to smile 1 Women particularly are afraid to smile, chiefly perhaps because they fear that it may disturb their makeup, or be the means of causing a much-dreaded wrinkle to appear. Actually the most damage a smile could do would be to accentuate .the charming little laughter lines, which one sees 'on every really jb*sautiful face, or bring into prominence that most fascinating of all beauty assets — a dimple. There is no need to be afraid of smiling, for a beauty point of view there is nothing more rejuvenating. Even the plainest face -can become quite beautiful when redeemed by a smile, while a good-looking one is immediately made perfectly lovely. Smiles and laughter are the two greatest beauty tonics, and will accomplish what all the cosmetics -in the world will fail to do without their aid, states an authority. Age seems to vanish into thin air the moment we smile, and not only do we feel years younger and heaps happier, but we look it. Smiling Is a most infectious complaint, and one of the few which we enjoy catching, so do not let us be afraid of it, but rather welcome it eagerly. The beauty of a face can be made or marred by a smile, so that to cultivate beauty we must 'cultivate 'the smile-habit too. The face that never smiles is never beautiful, while the smiling face wiil always inspire happiness and compel admiration.