HYMN TO THE POWDER PUFF
Powder puffs are spirituals, not physical. When this great truth is realised not only by our doctors of medi: cine, but by our doctors of divinity, we shall have taken another ten years off that middle-age which no longer has real existence. For middle-age for the woman of today is anything from 40 to 60. To keep young is to feel young. It is here that spiritual urge comes in. When a womq.n powders her nose, she is also, because /'of the subtle selfrespect the powder puff engenders, rejuvenating her soul. When I see my friends after dinner or afternoon tea, working vigorously in a circular direction with the now essential powder puff, a process which at one time used to leave me faint. ‘I now say to theifi: “Let the good work go on.” And it doos go on. Thick, too.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7013, 12 September 1929, Page 11
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147HYMN TO THE POWDER PUFF Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7013, 12 September 1929, Page 11
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