If too fat, she is not pretty--and she is miserable until,
through self-control, she gets thin.
If too thin, she is not pretty. At present she has a crazy sort
of idea that to be "skinny" is to be attractive. That is a
passing delusion. In the long run women realize that there is
nothing beautiful about a female living skeleton, and they strive
through normal living to become normal.
Above all, no woman can have a good complexion unless she have
good health and live normally. This one absorbing question of
complexion does more for woman's health; it gives us more strong
mothers, and more sensible girls, than all the preachings,
beseechings, prayers and expostulations of all the world's male
advisers.
A woman's instinct is to eat buckwheat cakes, adding boiling hot
coffee and iced water. She likes to eat candy between meals, and
her idea of a fine luncheon is lobster salad and ice cream. But
small spots appear. Those fine pink cheeks get too pink or too
pale, and sensible eating is adopted as a life rule.
Even the hideous corset squeezing is counteracted by the power of
complexion. Woman likes to look like a wasp, and if she could
she would move her poor system all out of place for the sake of a
waist hideously small.
But, providentially, a waist squeezed too mercilessly gives a
bright pink tip to the end of the nose; and for the sake of the
color of that nose-tip the poor waist gets a rest--the corset is
let out.
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