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In the Driftway
March 6, 1929 issue

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It is opined that dumbness may live to a hale old age, but beauty doesn't stick by it. It takes intelligence, hard work, and self-control to maintain beauty. Without them one is likely to be fat and faded at thirty-two. Lily Langtry practiced all three or she could not have married into one of the oldest families in England at the age of forty-seven. And if it takes work to remain beautiful, it requires more to exploit beauty. It is informed that Lily Langtry was a rarely intelligent and capable woman who would have succeeded with the face of Medusa and the figure of Old Mother Hubbard. Fortune having favored her with beauty besides, she became one of the most famous women of her day.

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LANGTRY, Lily; AESTHETICS; BEAUTY, Personal; INTELLECT; SELF-control; DISCIPLINE
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