POWDER, ROUGE, AND LIPSTICK.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3463, 31 March 1930, Page 2

POWDER, ROUGE, AND LIPSTICK.

Powder, roupe and lipstick, and llm shinpled head provided Sir Thomas Oliver. consultin'! physician ol the Royil Vicf oria I n(innary. Newca stle-on-Tyno (Enp'and), with a snh.iect tor his president ifll address to I lie Institute ol I’rieholooist-s scientists ol the hair—in London (reported the Daily Alail).

"In restaurants and tearooms.” said Sir Thomas. "vie -ee yonny women, with hand’hays open, carefully scrutinise their faces in a small mirror. hTo hnre parts are touched up with powder and paste, and i lie exhibition hronyht to a close hy eomhiny the lia'r. This cannot he commended on hyyienic y ron nds."

Many yirls thought they could imnrove nature or artificially make a complexion beautiful, he said. There were many who need never use powder, ron ye. or lipstick. The artificial could never epual the natural. I,ess and less, was seen of anaemia today because yirls spent more time in the open air and enyayed more in yames. I.ony hair, not wit hstandiiur modern inshions. 'leinained attractive, and was (he yiory of womanhood, Shinyliny in many in stances added to a woman's I.(unity :l the lace was yood, hnt n did not suit all, 11 did not. add to the intellectual side ol woman’s attnu tivenoss. It w.is part of a beauty craze.

I’he ancient Kyyptiaiis were faun nil eosmeiies. When Rome was

the heiyht ol her yiory women finely dra)('d. roiiyed. and powdered visited

the Coliseum on yreat occasions, and reclined with their tea t i'll seals Hold the sun's rays made streams of colored liquid trickle down (heir laces. In the I’nited States the use of co-melics had hee nkillov, ed hy ill-health. In some cosmetics the piymenf had keen nnx”d

with benzole. Allowiny for climate ami other conditions, the most civilised nations were the best washed.