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