Good morning girls I'm going to talk to you this morning about the way you look
Now I've heard it said that we women attach too much importance to our
appearance. But that isn't true. After all the way we look exert so much influence
on the way we feel and on the way other people feel about us that it really is
very important. When I talk about good appearance or good grooming or looking your best
You probably think immediately of
clothes or hairstyle or makeup. Well I realize that those things are especially
interesting to you and they are important and I am going to talk about
them. But please remember that they are just really the trimmings, just like the
icing on a cake. If the icing is very good then that's
fine. But if the cake itself isn't good you'll soon lose interest in the icing.
So let's start with the cake and come back to the trimmings later. Basically of
course, good health and intelligent physical care are the foundations of all
beauty. We all want a lovely skin, shining eyes, a beautiful smile and loads of pep.
But we can't have them, except in a healthy clean body and I mean clean !
Remember you can't have good looks without soap and water. There's no
substitute for the daily bath as a groundwork for glamour. Brilliant teeth
need brushing. Gleaming hair means frequent and thorough shampooing.
Keep that air of freshness by using a deodorant regularly. It's a shortcut to
social security. Sleep comes next to cleanliness as a beauty base and I mean
sleep. Not just go to bed if that means sitting up writing letters or listening
to music. I've seen lots of sparkling eyes and good complexions sacrificed to
swing records at bedtime. Mind you I'm all for music and it's place.
But there is a lot of sound sense in that old expression - beauty sleep.
So snap out that light early enough every night to get eight or nine hours
of this most effective beauty treatment. And then there's this business of eating
It worries me to see that so many girls think a balanced diet consists of soda
pop and a sandwich or a big gooey Sunday. Let's remember what we were taught in
home economics about a well-balanced diet. Meat, cheese, eggs or fish. Milk
butter, bread, fresh fruits, especially citrus fruits. Green and starchy
vegetables in proper proportion and of course the sweets. And please go easy on
fried foods. Beautiful skin, vitality, fluffy hair. All the things you want, begin with
a balanced diet. So watch it girls, it pays big dividends.
Then there's exercise, preferably outdoors. And when I say exercise, many of you may think of
work. Well a little work as a helpful beauty hint . But so is outdoor play
I'll leave it to your own conscience whether you work in the garden, ride a
bike, play ball, hike swim or ski. And try to spend some time every day outdoors
developing the grace that comes from toned up muscles and a complexion that
goes with good circulation. And even the ordinary things that you do every day
can help to make you more graceful. But none of you do them like this. Walking up
stairs reaching up to a high shelf dusting, all can be good body conditioning
if you use your muscles to do them vigorously, instead of slouching through them.
I'd like to speak to you please Miss Stuyvesant. Go ahead, I want you to ask questions !
Well I guess I have a round face and I wear my hair the way you said I shouldn't and I don't see how
things like that and posture and mannerisms and the other things will
make a girl more popular if she's not pretty to begin with.
Sometimes I could shake you girls when you worry so much about being pretty or not being pretty
as though prettiness were a woman's only attraction. If you'd spend just one month
doing everything I talked about to make the most of your appearance, you wouldn't
need to worry about being pretty or popular. I wish that I could wave a magic
wand, to show you what the difference would be. Presto like that !
Why it does work. You will be prettier. You will be more popular.