438 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



How to Develop Beauty and Loveliness. — All 



little girls want to be beautiful. Girls in general care 

 much more for their appearance than do boys. They 

 have finer tastes, and greater love for whatever is 

 lovely and beautiful. It is a natural desire, and should 

 be encouraged. A pure, innocent, beautiful little girl 

 is the most lovely of all God's creatures. All are not 

 equally beautiful, however, and cannot be ; but all may 

 be beautiful to a degree that will render them attract- 

 ive. Let all little girls who want to be pretty, hand- 

 some, or good-looking, give attention, and we will tell 

 them how. Those who are homely should listen espe- 

 cially, for all may become good-looking, though all 

 cannot become remarkably beautiful. First of all, it 

 is necessary that the girl who wishes to be handsome, 

 to be admired, should be good. She must learn to love 

 what is right and true. She must be pure in mind and 

 act. She must be simple in her manners, modest in 

 her deportment, and kind in her ways. 



Second in importance, though scarcely so, is the 

 necessity of health. No girl can long be beautiful with- 

 out health; and no girl who enjoys perfect health can 

 be really ugly in appearance. A healthy countenance 

 is always attractive. Disease wastes the rounded fea- 

 tures, bleaches out the roses from the cheeks and the 

 vermilion from the lips. It destroys the luster of the 

 eye and the elasticity of the step. Health is essential 

 to beauty. In fact, if we consider goodness as a state 

 of moral health, then health is the one great requisite 

 of beauty. 



Health is attained and preserved by the observance 

 of those natural laws which the Creator has appointed 

 for the government of our bodies. The structure of these 

 bodies we may do well to study for a few moments. 



