| As we advance in years certain lines appear on the | | | | extending downward with a slight inward curve. |
| face and neck, which we associate with age. But | | | | Wrinkles on the forehead with a slight downward bend |
| these marks of physical deterioration are more often | | | | at the ends which parallel the line of the eyebrows, |
| due to neglect than to years. Some women, for | | | | appear. These are generally from three to five in |
| instance who are twenty-five, may appear ten years | | | | number, according to one's age. The wrinkles |
| older. | | | | commonly called "crow's feet" spread, fanwise, from |
| The preservation of the celebrated beauty of the | | | | the outer corners, of the eyes over the temples, and |
| sixteenth century, Ninon de L'Enclos, is a well-known | | | | are also usually from three to five in number. |
| instance of this theory. This woman was remarkable | | | | The skin below the eyes becomes loose and creased. |
| for her wonderful physical preservations. At the age of | | | | These creased lines start from the corners of the |
| eighty, creditable authorities state she retained the | | | | eyes, slightly curving and overlapping each other. By |
| great beauty of her girlhood. Her face having the | | | | this time one or two lines usually appear at the sides |
| freshness of youth, and being as free from the lines of | | | | of the neck, commencing at a point back of the ears, |
| age as it had been at twenty and her white-powdered | | | | extending below the jaw, and slanting downward to |
| hair, then fashionable, added to her youthful | | | | the throat. Immediately behind the ears, too, the skin |
| appearance. | | | | becomes slightly loose; two short wrinkles form, and a |
| From the data the writer has been able to gather, her | | | | line appears extending down to, and under, the neck. |
| smoothness of skin and freedom from wrinkles was | | | | At the next stage a great number of very short, tiny |
| due solely to persistent daily friction of the skin of her | | | | lines begin to appear all over the face and neck - |
| face, combined with an exercise for the muscles of | | | | some parallel, others intersecting. These lines give the |
| the neck and throat. Little was known of the laws of | | | | skin a withered appearance. The freshness of youth |
| scientific physical culture at that time, but as Madam de | | | | has departed. Now, the skin under the chin becomes |
| L'Enclos retained her elasticity of body and graceful | | | | loose, too. All of the long lines meet and overlay and |
| figure to the last, it is evident that some system of | | | | interweave, and combine with the short ones, just |
| exercises was systematically and persistently | | | | appearing to form a tangled web of crisscrossing that |
| practiced. In that way alone could her youthful condition | | | | deepen as the years advance. This is the skein of life. |
| have been preserved. | | | | This is the spinning of time. And the pattern is never |
| Usually the first marks left by time on the human | | | | beautiful! |
| features - and they are common to us all - are the | | | | The only sure method of erasing these lines is by |
| wrinkles extending from the nostrils to the corners of | | | | friction. And this is best accomplished with the palms of |
| the mouth and beyond. As the years advance these | | | | the hands. This treatment, if began when the disfiguring |
| are joined by parallel wrinkles, somewhat shorter, | | | | lines first appear, and if methodically and daily practiced |
| about half an inch distant on the cheek. Still later, | | | | along with the exercises for the muscles of the face |
| another, and even shorter, wrinkle appears at a further | | | | and neck, will surely result in a very marked and |
| distance of less than half an inch. Others are also | | | | satisfactory improvement in the personal appearance. |
| formed, beginning at the corners of the mouth, and | | | | |