A BEAUTY BOOK

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 21

A BEAUTY BOOK

"The Hygiene of Youth and Beauty." By Josif Ginsburg, M.D. Sydney: The Cornstalk Company. Dr. Josif Ginsburg, formerly of the Government Hospital of Plastic Surgery at Prague, and now occupying the same position at Los Angeles, has put forth a particularly interesting book on the subject of 'the hygiene of youth and beauty, one that appeals from its common-sense and practicability, as well as for its keen directions for the application of "make-up."" This last is regarded from the artistic point, and those who use it are urged to do the whole thing properly, studying the face and contour, and never indulging in foolish "patching" which so often disfigures complexions and distorts features. Those who jnako up should wash the face well and start again when necessary, and, apparently, Dr. Ginsburg would have little patience with those who do such "patching" in public with only the aid of a tiny mirror. He gives a set of studies of skins, greasy, dry, dark, and fair, with directions for the proper and reasonable care of each. Washing in warm water •to remove fine dust and heat is recommended, but cold water is the great beautifier, and he has little patience with those who use astringents, regarding them as dangerous, for they simply let the skin down afterwards with a worse result than' as if they had not been used. Wrinkles, blackheads, freckles, and liver spots are ill dealt with in detail, and the proper massage movements are clearly described. The second part of the book deals with the figure. Directions for reducing any over-fat part of the body are given, and also others for increasing the contour. The care of the hair is interestingly and sensibly described, and it will be found that Dr. Ginsburg is fully approving of the short hair for all women, regarding it aa generally both more becoming and more healthy. "It gives to the wearer an appearance of more youthful physical grace, and adds two more points to feminine beauty by exposing the back of the neck and the shape of the head, both hidden by the long hair. . . . The getting rid of l<mg hair with iron pins and heavy combs must be a great relief, and never before did women have such beautiful and healthy hair and clean scalps. . . . There may be no beauty like the beauty of a young person letting down her long hair, but comfort is another matter, and few ladies of the present era would prefer a beautiful but insanitary palace in Venice to a house with modern improvements. It is the same with the bobbed hair habit." Dr. Ginsberg, it will be seen, is intensely modern, and-his ideas on health and beauty are, naturally, on the same lines. The book is well and clearly illustrated throughout.—M.H.C.