It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. \"Old ladies\"are already becoming rare. In a few years， we may well believe， they will be extinct. White hair and wrinkles， a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be regarded as medievally old-fashioned. The crone of the future will be golden， curly and cherry-lipped， neat-ankled and slender. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indistinguishable，at future picture shows， from the Portrait of the Artist's Daughter. This desirable consummation will be due in part to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax， facial surgery， mud baths， and paint， in part to improved health， due in its turn to a more rational mode of life. Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease， beauty of health. In so far as the campaign for more beauty is also a campaign for more health， it is admirable and，up to a point， genuinely successful. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still， it is sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing.The apparatus for mimicking the symptoms of health is now within the reach of every moderately prosperous person; the knowledge of the way in which real health can be achieved is growing， and will in time， no doubt， be universally acted upon. When that happy moment comes， will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful， at any rate， as the natural shape of her features， with or without surgical and chemical aid permits?