WOMEN'S BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 10

WOMEN'S BEAUTY.

"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said. This reply might easily be applicable to an Englishwoman who recently received severe facial injuries in a motoring accident and was awarded £1000 damages. Her face was badly cut, mainly above the bridge of the nose, which was smashed, and a delicate surgical operation had to bo performed. In his summing-up, Mr. Justice McCardie said there was no doubt the claimant had suffered acutely from the accident, which had had the effect of ageing her considerably in appearance. He added: I have never met a woman who did not desire to preserve the youthful outlines of her face, and from that point of view this accident was a tragic one. The judge said in defence of witnesses who, in the hands of experienced counsel, tell conflicting stories: "I am always gentle with witnesses. The more one sits in these courts the more one realises the unfortunate lot of a witness. He stands in the box faced by a jury sitting with the placidity of a constitutional tribunal. He is asked questions by counsel, not always in the clearest terms, and for the first time he makes a public speech. I have heard some first public speeches. It .is for that reason that one has to be sympathetic with witnesses, who sometimes must feel that they are regarded as semi-criminals, so much is their evidence criticised by one party ,or the other." /.