RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29726, 20 January 1962, Page 17

RANDOM REMINDER

NEW WRINKLES, ON FACES

The eagerness of the Japanese to westernise their lives is giving a livelihood to many people, including those who write articles about the eagerness of the Japanese to westernise their lives. One of the more recent and revealing reports comes from the Tokyo correspondent of a London newspaper, who recorded that surgeons were giving hundreds of Japanese the double - lined western eyelid each day. But not only Japanese women are availing themselves of the strange clinical services available at laughably cheap rates. One of the latest crazes, evidently, is the removal of the businessman’s

paunch. It costs only £5O. Businessmen, in New Zealand as well as in Japan, are noted for their macabre interest in their figures. They look at their flabby fronts and make notes on memoranda pads to do something about it all. The usual course of action is to make another note, some weeks later. Some executives do take a more positive line, such as joining a golf club, pulling a trundler for three or four miles on a Saturday afternoon, and feeling very virtuous about the benefit of it all as they pour in the calories at the nineteenth. This column has decided to bide its time. If, as

seems likely, New Zealanders follow the Japanese lead and make themselves into a nation of Gregory Pecks and Brigitte Bardots, all with clever, cheap, cosmetic surgery, there is going to be a deadly dullness about the look of everyone. So many handsome faces . . . the coinage will be devalued. Then this column • will come into its own. The third and fourth chins will be the mark of the distinguished man, die greying wisps of hair will have the girls swooning. The thing, obviously, is to concentrate on developing a really fine paunch. And it’ll be no trouble all.