BEAUTY AT ANY COST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 July 1924, Page 10

BEAUTY AT ANY COST

Speaking at the social hygiene conference in London on the psychology of adolesence, Sir Frederick Mott said {the Daily Telegraph reports) that from the most hum bio to the most elevated conditions of life,, at all times and among all peoples,, young women did not recoil from any means, and would submit to any form of physical discomfort or suffering to increase their attiactiveness. “She pinches her feet in tight shoes,” he said, “she wears short dresses and thin stockings in winter, pierces the ears, and even the lips and nose, in order to attach ornaments, and brings to her aid besides jewels and ornaments, emotional reactions which make her more interesting and attractive.” He urged the encouragement of early marriages among people healthy in mind and body. Addressing the congress on “Education and Social Hygiene,” Professor -T. A. Thomson said the problem was how education must help social hygiene. The solution must be found by experiment. “It- is probable that love has suffered considerable materialisation,” be said. “It is probable that the ideals of ehastitv, faithfulness, control, and clear-mindedness have. been weakened, and that men in particulareven in a country with our traditions —• like pleasure more and endure hardness less than their forefathers did.” He strongly suspected that some devotees of psvcho-nnal.vsis were doing harm by bringing into everyday life and conversation a method appropriate to the laboratory and hospital.