LADIES' COLUMN.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 7

LADIES' COLUMN.

WHERE WE DECEIVE NO ONE. There is a curious truth that some women absolutely refuse to believe : curious because it is so self-evident. It is that rouge cannot be put on the face without being detected. A woman may not put it on her face herself : she may have it urtirriciul'y applied by someone who is an expert at the "art." It as then a case of admiring the skill

of the "artist." But the pathetic part of the transaction is that the woman thinks she successfully deceives other women. That she doesn't every woman concedes. Then why, in all conscience, is it done ? For if ever there was a confession that Nature has withheld something from a woman it is the presence of rouge. And as one woman said recently : "Of course it is the catspiriis in woman to be sure that much more,has been withheld than is really the case." Whether in cruel daylight or under the more helpful glamour of artificial light, don't, let our women get the notion that they deceive anyone, woman or man. They don't : they stand exactly for what they are —painted ladies. And in the minds of men there is generally but one association for that type of woman !