Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained. [Illustration: LADY CURZON] THE WOMAN BEAUTIFUL By MME. QUI VIVE (HELEN FOLLETT STEVANS) CHICAGO JAMIESON-HIGGINS CO. 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY STEVANS AND HANDY PREFACE The Woman Beautiful is not a radiant creature of gorgeous plumage and artificial beauty, but a woman of wholesome health, good hard sense, sparkling vivacity and sweet lovableness. Her beauty-creed hangs not from rouge pots and bleaches, but suspends like a banner of truth from the laws of wise, hygienic living. Her cheeks are tinted with the glow that comes from good, well-circulated blood, her eyes are bright and lovely because her mind is so, and her complexion is transparent and soft and velvety for the reason that the true art is known to her. The Woman Beautiful is all sincerity. She doesn't like to sail under false colors and so insult old Dame Nature, whose kindnesses and benefits are so well meant and freely offered. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE THE COMPLEXION 9 Expression 14 Useless Beauty 16 Washing the Face 20 Facial Eruptions and Blackheads 23 Tan, Sunburn and Freckles 27 Complexion Powders 32 Wrinkles 35 Recipes for the Complexion 39 CARE OF THE HAIR 46 Dressing the Hair 56 Superfluous Hair 63 Recipes for the Hair 65 THE HANDS 68 Bathing the Hands 71 Care of the Finger Nails 73 Recipes for the Hands 75 THE EYES 79 The Girl Who Cries 83 The Eyelashes 86 The Eyebrows 86 THE TEETH 88 BATHING 93 DIET 100 SLEEP 109 EXERCISE 114 STOOPED SHOULDERS 125 BREATHING 130 MASSAGE 136 DRESS 144 THE THIN GIRL 149 THE PLUMP GIRL 154 THE WORKING GIRL 161 THE NERVOUS ONE 167 PERFUMES 174 The Woman Beautiful THE COMPLEXION