POWDER-PUFF PROHIBITION
It was mainly the women who brought about the enactment of Prohibition in the United States. In a witty speech at Washington's birthday celebration of the London branch of the United -States Navy League, Admiral Sims said that if American women carried out their new threat to make the country tobacco-less,. as well as " dry," there would certainly lxj a men's movement. to ban face powder and decollette eifects. The Admiral read some lines on ' Topics of the Day at Home,' including:— Now, we're not going to stand for such one-sided stuff; We're next going to tackle the girls' powder puff. We're after short dresses, low necks, and long hair, So we give you fair warning, dear girls, to beware!
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Evening Star, Issue 17031, 30 April 1919, Page 2
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122POWDER-PUFF PROHIBITION Evening Star, Issue 17031, 30 April 1919, Page 2
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