THE 1911 WRINKLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 4

THE 1911 WRINKLE.

“The wrinkle that threatens the women of 1911,” to quote an American beauty specialist, “comes from too much thought, too much worry, and too much brain work.” “It is a wrinkle that encloses the mouth. The Parliamentary law wrinkle, again, is at the corner of the eyes. It reaches almost to the roots of the hair. The electric light is one of the worst of this series of wrinkles; its cause is the regular use of brilliant electric light for prolonged intervals at a stretch. Women who take the chair at club meetings are pointed out as the chief victims of this modern affliction.”

In a recently-published interview this student of the human features declared that he could easily trace the causes of the wrinkles in a woman’s face. The spectacle wrinkle, caused by too much knitting, had passed away, and its place had been filled by the law wrinkle and the shopping one. This latter bore the expression of grave anxiety, and he translated it into “I’ve spent too much money.” “It is not at all difficult,” he ivent on, “to cut these fine lines on the human face. Women forget that three months of concentration over one idea will produce a wrinkle that it is hard, but not impossible, to eradicate with careful treatment.” “Women’s faces have undergone cornsiderable alteration within the last half century,” said an observant student of facial characteristics. “Emotion is almost lacking from many faces; it would do some of our modern intellectual workers a lot of good if they would occasionally indulge in what their mothers knew as a ‘good cry.’ “Emotion good for the face and for the brain ? Why, of course it is ! This same emotion, expressed in tears, laughter, pleasant thoughts, kindly feelings, passing through the mind, leaves its mark. The skin is like fine, tissue-paper, and folds just as readily-. The woman who has the wrinkle caused hv a smile on her face is much more attractive than the one who goes about with that straght, hard line, resulting from incessant pondering over mental problems. For all the time and energy spent on beauty culture little attention is bestowed on that of. expression. “The University expression is one that gives a distinct wrinkle, easily detected; then we have, on more frivolous faces, the bridge wrinkle, the motor line, and, perhaps, most distinct of all, the speculation line. Women who are anxiously watching the money markets acquire the same Habit as the intellectual worker; Lips ai;e closed tight, drawn together so that the cornersof tho mouth cannot possibly dimple. Its surrounding muscles are too rigidlv compressed. Roth the expressions indicated, and the lines which result from them, are sadly deleterious to beauty. However careful a woman may be of her complexion, expression has more to do with real loveliness than most people realise, particularly when the first blush of youth has passed.”