POLISHED CHEEKS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 2, 14 July 1914, Page 3

POLISHED CHEEKS.

A young woman appeared in a public pairk at Grosriyi, in South Russia. Half her face tad been blackened. The color was not. due to the little accidents of grate cleaning, The woman was not "the first woman chimney-sweep. 11 Neither had she embarked' on the arduous career of a coal-heaver. The "black" —blacking, perhaps, or blackleadi—had! been deliberately applied. Moreover, it had been polished, apparently, with tender oare, until it shone like a grate in a well-regulated household or the boots of an officer in the Guards. But the result was not "a joy for ever." The plebeians in the park were not in Wessed. They jeered. And before their jeers tfterr r , pioneer of the new fashion in faces Ead to retreat. The explanation of the matter is simple. :T|i£ woman, it seems, was a Futurist y?no. wished to go one better than a cofored' wig and violet face powder.