Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1920 — Beauty Chats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Beauty Chats

BEAUTY AND AGE

THERE’S the sweetest old lady that ever was who has written to me regularly now for more than a year. She wrote once and asked me for the cold-cream recipe, and inquired whether I’d think “seventy and a grandmother” silly, to try and make herself pretty. And I answered that her duty was to make hetself pretty, for there is no prettiness like that of whitehaired age. WeU. she began beauty culture at once, and she has made rapid progress tn the art ever since. She uses the flesh-building cream to soften the texture of her skin and to smooth away some of the wrinkles. She powders, too —and I’m sure it becomes her. She washes her hair with alcohol, alternating with plain water shampoos without soap, with a bit of blueing in the rinse water, to avoid the yellow streaks and to make her hair the-sil-very white that Is more beautiful even, than brown or golden shades. She tabes splendid care of her hands, a point most older women neglect, though the hands show all of age's ugliness. And she changed her whole style of dressing. She doesn’t wear black, which tn the one color, age should avoid. She wears soft pastel shades about the house, and gray or dark blue or very dark brown for- the street She wears lace fichus open a bit in front, in place of high unbecom-

By Edna Kent Forbes

Ing collars. And she her with a tiny lace cap. And I’d like to see ber—wouMgft you? (Copyright) ■<

The Elderly Woman Should Be Beautiful Also.