PUTTING A GOOD FACE ON IT

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 12

PUTTING A GOOD FACE ON IT

|B</ WHiM WHAMi Tune and again, said Dame Hilda Ross, she wa.* approached bv young married people with families wno were seeking Estate houses. Young people today had more money than ever before, but they were spending it on things they need not buy. Dame 4 Hilda quoted increased cosmetics consumption from J 954 to 1956 as an example of mending on luxury goods that could be done without if necessarv.— Budget debate report. I detject a certain Austerity. , Not to say Severity', ■ Even perhaps a slight Deficiency./of Cherity In Dame Hilda's latest Admonishment Whicji causes me genuine, if mild, Astonishment I hasten to add, Sir, I wish to be emphatic That I Have no financial Interest in the Cosmatic Industry, lest Anyone should point At MY NoSe, as if it would be put out of Joint If any Woman put less Powder un Hers, And if the aesthetic Question occurs As .to-' whether the Beauty Bar impairs Or enhances Nature’s Workmanship On Cheek, or Brow or Lip, / I aip content to leave that Question wide Open, .or fdr Others more competent to deciderquestion merely the Principle which our Hon. Dame Has enunciated with the so praiseworthy Aim Of encouraging. Prudence and Thrift Among, the Young, who are aut to drift And in whose Pockets the Money s so apt to burn Holes, and who need bringing up with a Round Turn—I merely doubt l£ Tamil al AH to What we can do without If NECESSARY, I personally don't feel It NECESSARY to shave the Face, I appeal To Statistics—it makes me almost ill To think of the Nation’s mounting Razor and Lather and Lotion Bill, And the young Spendthrifts who persist in shaving Some of them twice daily, instead of saving The Money to buy nice Homes, and the Same applies To fancy Shirts (what’s wrong witn Sackcloth?) and TiesCome to think of it, if it s true We CAN do without these Things and a few Other’s, well it seems possible we could do (If NECESSARY) without nice Homes too-!