Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1913 — TAKE CARS OF YOUR LOOKS [ARTICLE]

TAKE CARS OF YOUR LOOKS

Much Wisdom Conveyed In This Advice That a Woman Gives to Her Sisters.

One reason why so many women begin to “go off” in their looks after thirty or even_jearlier, is a growing habit of carelessness about their appearance. In particular, the woman that marrieß aud has children is very likely to fall into the notion that “it doesn’t matter how mother looks.” Indeed, I have known women who seemed to consider it a part of theic. duty to their families to get old and ugly as Boon as possible. No woman can make a more fatal mistake. A woman wants to be proud of her children, and her children have an equal right.to be proud of her. A woman who has become a wrinkled, faded, humped-up, dowdy, “back number” at forty may get a certain tolerant, affection and perfunctory gratitude from her family, but she can never inspire the admiration and respect and willing pbedience that every child should be able to render to hiß mother. Depend upon it, excellent wife and devoted mother, if you find yourself too busy ( to take, a daily bath, too busy to keep your scalp clean and your hair brushed, too busy to go to a dentist at the first sign of decaying teeth, too busy to massage the blackheads out of your skin and manicure your nails and provide yoursdlf with suitable, becoming clothes, then you are absolutely too busy. - You are either being imposed upon by some shirker, or else you are voluntarily sacrificing more important to a less important consideration. If it comes right down to a choice, madam, I think your husband would take more pleasure in your clean complexion than in a clean pair of attic stairs, and I am quite sure that it is better to provide your children with a neat, trim, well-groomed mother to look at at table than to harass their little stomachs with some elaborate and indigestible “made digh.”—Woman's World.