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HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL: nature unmasked, a book for every woman
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL: nature unmasked, a book for every woman
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Contents:
CHAPTER I. BEAUTY
CHAPTER II. BATHING
CHAPTER III. EXERCISE
CHAPTER IV. CYCLING
CHAPTER V. WRINKLES
CHAPTER VI. EYES
CHAPTER VII. HANDS
CHAPTER VIII. BEAUTIFUL FORMS
CHAPTER IX. CORSETS
CHAPTER X. SHOES
CHAPTER XI. AGREEABLE MANNERS
CHAPTER XII. THE "GRANDE" AIR
ANNEX: RECIPES AND FORMULAS
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An excerpt from the beginning of:
CHAPTER I.
BEAUTY.
What is beauty? Successful beauty is individuality. Will I be forgiven if I betray some of the secrets of studio life ? " The end will justify the means" if I give to the public impressions, opinions, suggestions and information, which, in my contact with all classes of my own sex, I have gathered from time to time. Ladies from the "upper ten " and models from the " lower five" have each contributed their share in my conclusions of what beauty really is.
An artist goes through life looking for the beautiful in this everyday world of ours. Where others see a common bit of clay, a dreary sandy shore, a beggar girl in tatters, he discovers material for a picture that has only to be given color, atmosphere and thought to show that beauty exists everywhere. If with this common-place foundation the artist is enabled to produce a picture that gives pleasure to the observer, why not go further and impress upon our maids and matrons the power they have within their grasp to make themselves beautiful? An artist to insure success must paint from practical scenes and living models; but the tatters of the beggar girl are arranged to display the beauty of the wearer, the poise of the head shows the contour of the beautiful throat. As the artist brings to view the hidden beauty of the beggar, so any woman can make herself beautiful, for it is a truth that every woman has beauty in some form, whether consciously or unconsciously.
A beautiful hand, a beautiful foot, lovely hair, a fine pair of eyes, regular teeth—any one of these gives a woman a claim to beauty. And how many times they catch the wandering heart of some man, making the possessor, to him, a beautiful woman.
Nature has not endowed the majority of women with regular features, nor is it necessary to gauge beauty by them. Sparkling eyes, a lovely complexion, a fine figure, agreeable manners, are much more noticeable, and within the reach of all women, if they will give themselves the same studied care and attention that the artist gives his models to insure the success of the picture.
I became particularly interested in the subject in the early part of my studio life, when my ambitions were far greater than my executive ability, and I was endeavoring to find what sympathy there might exist between art and money for actual necessities. A beautiful woman came to me for a portrait. I say beautiful, and yet it was hard to tell wherein her beauty lay. Her features were not regular, but there was an exquisiteness, a magnetism, a charm about her that was indescribable and certainly irresistible. She seemed to fill the studio with sunlight, where the shadows had been so dense.
She gave me her name, and I recognized it as that of a prominent society lady, noted for her beauty, not only in this country but abroad as well. A close friendship sprang up between us, and through her I learned that a woman of ordinary looks can be transformed into a reigning beauty.
It is not necessary to go into the details of her early marriage to a young law student; her one ambition to make home beautiful for the husband; of the transition from a quiet life as the wife of a country lawyer to the brilliant life of a senator's wife in a gay capital; of the heartaches caused by the seeming preference shown by the loved husband for beautiful women by whom they were surrounded; women without the intellect, perhaps, that she possessed, but women who understood their own charms and knew how to make the most of them. She discovered that simply to have striven to make home beautiful, and to have lived only for the comfort of her husband, was not enough to retain the love she saw slipping away from her. She needed physical beauty and attractiveness as well. She commenced to study herself. "As in a looking glass " she saw herself plain and commonplace. In her aim to make home beautiful and attractive she had forgotten to study the thousand and one little details that make women, the plainest of them, charming. She had never been particular that the color of her dress brought out the brightest hues of her hair, that her foot was encased in the daintiest of shoes and slippers; that the length of her sleeve showed to a nicety the curve of her wrist and forearm; that her waist line was not marred by needless bands and gathers; that her hair was arranged to soften her face and show the shape of the head to the best advantage. She had never realized, until now, that in living for her husband...
CHAPTER I. BEAUTY
CHAPTER II. BATHING
CHAPTER III. EXERCISE
CHAPTER IV. CYCLING
CHAPTER V. WRINKLES
CHAPTER VI. EYES
CHAPTER VII. HANDS
CHAPTER VIII. BEAUTIFUL FORMS
CHAPTER IX. CORSETS
CHAPTER X. SHOES
CHAPTER XI. AGREEABLE MANNERS
CHAPTER XII. THE "GRANDE" AIR
ANNEX: RECIPES AND FORMULAS
***
An excerpt from the beginning of:
CHAPTER I.
BEAUTY.
What is beauty? Successful beauty is individuality. Will I be forgiven if I betray some of the secrets of studio life ? " The end will justify the means" if I give to the public impressions, opinions, suggestions and information, which, in my contact with all classes of my own sex, I have gathered from time to time. Ladies from the "upper ten " and models from the " lower five" have each contributed their share in my conclusions of what beauty really is.
An artist goes through life looking for the beautiful in this everyday world of ours. Where others see a common bit of clay, a dreary sandy shore, a beggar girl in tatters, he discovers material for a picture that has only to be given color, atmosphere and thought to show that beauty exists everywhere. If with this common-place foundation the artist is enabled to produce a picture that gives pleasure to the observer, why not go further and impress upon our maids and matrons the power they have within their grasp to make themselves beautiful? An artist to insure success must paint from practical scenes and living models; but the tatters of the beggar girl are arranged to display the beauty of the wearer, the poise of the head shows the contour of the beautiful throat. As the artist brings to view the hidden beauty of the beggar, so any woman can make herself beautiful, for it is a truth that every woman has beauty in some form, whether consciously or unconsciously.
A beautiful hand, a beautiful foot, lovely hair, a fine pair of eyes, regular teeth—any one of these gives a woman a claim to beauty. And how many times they catch the wandering heart of some man, making the possessor, to him, a beautiful woman.
Nature has not endowed the majority of women with regular features, nor is it necessary to gauge beauty by them. Sparkling eyes, a lovely complexion, a fine figure, agreeable manners, are much more noticeable, and within the reach of all women, if they will give themselves the same studied care and attention that the artist gives his models to insure the success of the picture.
I became particularly interested in the subject in the early part of my studio life, when my ambitions were far greater than my executive ability, and I was endeavoring to find what sympathy there might exist between art and money for actual necessities. A beautiful woman came to me for a portrait. I say beautiful, and yet it was hard to tell wherein her beauty lay. Her features were not regular, but there was an exquisiteness, a magnetism, a charm about her that was indescribable and certainly irresistible. She seemed to fill the studio with sunlight, where the shadows had been so dense.
She gave me her name, and I recognized it as that of a prominent society lady, noted for her beauty, not only in this country but abroad as well. A close friendship sprang up between us, and through her I learned that a woman of ordinary looks can be transformed into a reigning beauty.
It is not necessary to go into the details of her early marriage to a young law student; her one ambition to make home beautiful for the husband; of the transition from a quiet life as the wife of a country lawyer to the brilliant life of a senator's wife in a gay capital; of the heartaches caused by the seeming preference shown by the loved husband for beautiful women by whom they were surrounded; women without the intellect, perhaps, that she possessed, but women who understood their own charms and knew how to make the most of them. She discovered that simply to have striven to make home beautiful, and to have lived only for the comfort of her husband, was not enough to retain the love she saw slipping away from her. She needed physical beauty and attractiveness as well. She commenced to study herself. "As in a looking glass " she saw herself plain and commonplace. In her aim to make home beautiful and attractive she had forgotten to study the thousand and one little details that make women, the plainest of them, charming. She had never been particular that the color of her dress brought out the brightest hues of her hair, that her foot was encased in the daintiest of shoes and slippers; that the length of her sleeve showed to a nicety the curve of her wrist and forearm; that her waist line was not marred by needless bands and gathers; that her hair was arranged to soften her face and show the shape of the head to the best advantage. She had never realized, until now, that in living for her husband...
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