The Archive · 1939

Doctor Points Way To Beauty

Importance of Sleep — Internal Nourishment And Posture — Ithaca, N.Y., June 12

Dr. Jennette Evans, medical advisor of women at Cornell University. believes "beauty is more than skin deep."

Outlining the components of physical beauty, most of which are far more fundamental than the average person realizes, Dr. Evans offered a few basic rules for achieving beauty through good health habits Of first importance are the contour of the body and facial expression.

"Our facial expression," she said.

made from the constant contraction of muscles underlying the skin, and the stimulation for that contraction comes from our thoughts and emotions," Thus "spiritual warmth, kind-lines and fortitude," are necessary attributes to beauty.

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