Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 13, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 February 1939 — Beauty Aids Not Intended For Children [ARTICLE]

Beauty Aids Not Intended For Children

By PATRICIA LINDSAY

Tl/TANY mothers write asking m such questions as these: “Do you believe in permanent waves for young children?” “My child has a very pale face. When she goes to parties should I rouge her cheeks?” “My young daughter likes colored nail polish. She is only nine. Should I let her wear it?” And once in a while I get a question which makes me gasp—“l want my child, who is now five years old, to have a perfect complexion when she grows up. Should I give her a facial once a week at a beauty parlor?” Of course, my answer to all of those questions is “No—Definitely no!” A child should be allowed to grow into an adult, unhampered. Her tender hair can be ruined with intense heat and harmful lotions; her skin can be marred for life by creams which ware made for aging beauty, not virgin beauty; and how 7 horrible to look at a young child with lacquered nails or rouged cheeks! 7 If you wish your child to grow into a beauty be watchful over the fundamentals of a healthy body and mind. See that she is fed the foods that will nourish her. Foods that will strengthen her tiny bones and teeth. Foods that will keep her skin fresh as a dew-kissed petal. Brush the darling’s hair regularly, away from the scalp with a brush that is kept sterilized and used for her very own. Keep her scalp clean, free from rashes and dandruff. Try to discover a natural wave in her hair, and press it between your fingers while it is damp to encourage its curl. Self Neglect Never Justified, What mother failed to do was this. She neglected herself in-or-der to showier daughter with much—much she didn’t need. When daughter was at the going-out age, she saw other mothers who were attractive, who could speak on current topics and books, who were more or less companionable to their own daughters. By comparison her mother fell short. Didn’t she? Yes, the doting mother failed to keep modern. Her offspring outshines her. What these disappointed mothers should do, now that their daughters have grown, is to spend much more time thinking about themselves! Buy some new clothes, get a new hair-do and a few beauty treatments —if the budget will Stand for them by crossing out daughter’s ordinary provisions! Those will restore selfrespect. To restore self-assurance get active in something, preferably local, which will bring you out of the home into social activity. Head books, magazines, go to movies. Develop a personality—because you have drowned yours in your daughter’s. Don’t blame her. She is youngs and youth is ruthless! Win your own self esteem back and it will not be long before people will be saying, “Alice should be attractive and talented, just look at her mother!” © Bell Syndicate. —WNU Service.