Have you ever stopped, dear reader, if only for a few minutes, and considered how much influence your eyes have on your beauty? Your eyes are the window looking out upon your soul, in the expression of our forefathers — at whose mention our lips part in a delicate smile that we soon bury with the past... Let us pause a little, then, at this important part of our face. It is important not only because it displays the freshness of our beauty, but also because it is the mirror of our good or ailing health, and even the mirror of our thoughts...

When the body is tired and worn out, the eyes appear lifeless and the skin around them wrinkles. Laughing eyes, on the other hand, are sparkling; they lend the face a vitality and liveliness that give it beauty and radiance. The eyes of one in love, for instance, or of one who is happy, hold a captivating sparkle that spreads its vitality over the face of their owner and gives it fresh-ness and luster. You too can obtain such eyes, provided you give them their due of daily care — a simple procedure that takes no more than half an hour.

When you are very tired, lie down for a few short minutes and place over your tired eyelids a clean piece of cloth moistened with cold water (as in figure 1). This operation rests the nerves of the eye and lends softness to the skin around it, so that a lady feels — and also looks — ten years younger than her age. Try it and see!!! Then, too, massage is a great ally in the war against time, that enemy of the fresh face, and it also helps against the effects of worry and poor health.

Continue your daily exercise by opening and closing your eyelids rapidly. There is no need to waste time over this; you can do it while you are cleaning your teeth. Then, while you are thinking which dress you will wear, or what you will cook for lunch, close your eyes for a minute or two and pass your little finger over your pupils, over the closed lids, making the movement in a circle (as in figure 2); then open your eyes as wide as you can, as though marveling at something, and repeat several times. After a few days you will be astonished at the great improvement these exercises produce.

Do not hesitate — weep, if you feel you need to weep. Only do not make of this a habit to which you grow addicted!! Crying now and then relieves the tension of the nerves.

But beware of letting tears take the place of washing the eye daily and removing the fatigue that clings to it after the day's work.

Is there any need to recall that the bloodstream must be kept pure? The cornea of the eye has no channel of its own; it is nourished by the substances the blood carries. The stream must therefore stay pure to help develop sparkling eyes.

And there is another element no less important than beautiful eyes, and that is beautifying — not with cosmetics, but by improving the natural form.

You may be, Madam, one of those who detest eye make-up in the daytime, and I agree with you; yet there is no harm in a little care that gives your eyes charm and beauty.

If cosmetics are foreign to your experience, or if you have prominent eyelids,