THAT TALCUM BATH

Northland Age, Volume 14, Issue 32, 19 April 1917, Page 7

THAT TALCUM BATH

That bright American Periodical “The Fra” is rightly caustic on the question of powdering as an artificial aid to beauty. “I yield you, messieurs and mesdames, that I am, more or less, without my prerogatives when I touch on the human person. But 1 I meet so many young ladies these days who evidently substitute talcum for a rough hand-scrub, I must raise my voice 1 It can’t be done 1 Some talcums have forty-horsepower odors, and some are not powerful enough 1 Moreover, it may be art to look as though one had been caressed between the eyes with a flour-sack, it may be laziness, or abhorrence of God’s Free Gift. When I see a young lady with powder flaked on her eyebrows, and layers of it turning brown and peeling off behind her ears, I always think I would prefer to see her shine or sweat! I do not at all resent talcum as a finish, buj I do resent it as the whole thing.”