"RIOT OF ROUGE."

Mataura Ensign, 29 September 1913, Page 4

"RIOT OF ROUGE."

THE GIRL OP TO-DAY. Notes on the disappearance of the "flapper" in. England- and the rise of a generation of "modern minxes, confident, brazen,, and eager to startle their men friends by their openness of speech," by <i British lady have furnished the American press with a congenial topic. The discussion has received increased impetus from pulpit denunciations of the American mother, who is accused of .abdicating her authority by permitting her daughters to make up and dress in an amazingly extravagant fashion. "We are living to-day in America," exclaimed Right Rev, Monsignor P. O'Hara to an audience of Brooklyn mothers, "in n, pandemonium of powder, I a riot of rouge and moral anarchy of dress." This and other philippics have brought into the field a number of literary defenders of the powder puff. A writer in the 'New York Tribune' argues that "powder on. the feminine face is the agency through which its natural beauties are coaxed to their highest stato of attractiveness just as the diamond is cut and polished so that its fires may shine forth in splendor. Moreover it. exercises a psychological as well as a physical function, as ia testified by the lines: Then powder your nose t powder your nose, For history shows that >a certain repose .' Is acquired by the lady who powders her nose." It is contended that there is nothing more immoral than a shiny nose. Complaints of the manners, behaviour and dross of young girls of_ to-day simply moan, in t'ho opinion, of a New York "writer, that the "English girl has become like her American sister—a splendid, reliable young person, possessing individuality of mind and amply ablo to tike care of'her young sweet self."