ON TOUR WITH MADEMOISELLE HELENA RUBINSTEIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 19

ON TOUR WITH MADEMOISELLE HELENA RUBINSTEIN.

.SOME OF HER EXPERIENCES BERLIN, 10th October. I am still spending my days in the capital of Genn.uiy, bicuking my stay by occasional trips to Vienna. I am .^atisiied thai tiic Auslrians and Germans between them aro wresting fiom Franco ihc supremacy in maiei'a •of Beauty C'u'.ture vhich she hus been eujoying these many y-nrs. And with justice. Beauty Culture in France v/ds always purely a mutter of cusmetfesj : Cacher, pas guerir — covering up, not curing. Complexion blemishes in France were covered up, pasted, painted, powdered o\cr. Tiien came the Americans with their surgical and electrical remedies and devices ; after them the Austrmna and Gormans, who not only overtook them but completely outpaced them, remaining the scientific masters of ,the situation. Prevention and cure — permanent cure — is then motto. I can give numerous illustrations, but two or turee will show what I mean : Freckles come to plague women in France as elsewhere. 'iho Frenchman gives you a lotion or ointment, which limy or may not remove them; at all events you will get a liquid-powder to cover them up. fho Teuton, too, lua remedies for lrccklcs, but he must atao find out how they are caused ; and knowing the cause" must overcome it. He learns that freckles are caused by cert jin rays of the sun which on reaching tho skin set up a chemical process ot dibcolouration- Tittle aic the blue and violet rays. He sets himself to counteract this chemical action by another. He discovers the very substance which when rubber! into the skin scouts the power of the sun's rays, protects tho skin and keeps it beyond harm's reach. This article, for which I have secured the sole Australasian rights, is now on its way to Australia, and New Zealand. So much for prevention! Now for cure : Take tho frequent cases of red noses. Again, the Frenchmen will cover up— perhaps \uii give you uu ointment with which he will attempt to bleach away the ledii-et-s, but which will not act 011 the c;>use or seal of the trouble. The Teuton on the other hand knows that the affliction is caused by widened blood-vessels in the skin, which ho destroys painlessly >v ith .111 elec'iiiv needle — and th's rrrl nose X "a 1....-, been" ! • And so dowa the line. Whatever is ]

done is dolie with 'a viewvto jjerniancncy. Pale cheeks, for instance. In I'^uuice — Toxigo, of course. Tlie Tcjulon women do not liko pale cheeks eithei. But fanatically enough, sho would much lathci not uso rouge, if she can help ifc. At the expense of being confined to her room for a few days she can and docs help it — by having rohebloom tatoocd into hei cheeks, there to remain 'permanently Thus you can't accuse liqi- of painting. Sec? The next lot of gossip will be scut you from the domain of the Sick Man of Europe, Turkey: .Floating do'w.n thoDunHibo part of the way, I expect to be in Constantinople about the 'end of this month. Till then lebc wohl. HELENA RUBINSTEIN. — Advt.