LESSONS IN LIPSTICK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26792, 8 June 1948, Page 2

LESSONS IN LIPSTICK

Part of School Curriculum? Special to the Daily Times LONDON, June 4. Girls at a mixed school in Welwyn, Herts, may be taught in class the best way to put on lipstick. , Mr G. A. Savage, head of St. Marys modern school, said: "Most girls rush for their lipsticks as soon as school ends. They need guidance on how to apply these things. You must have seen,” he said, •’ how they just slap it on." Across the sitting room of the school house Mrs Savage looked up from cutting out a pattern: "And not very well either, In S the mind of Mr Savage, lipstick is all bound up with the teaching of good manners. "I was at a conference with the Council of Industrial Design yesterday,” he said. We are studying a new curriculum on the art and design of living. It includes everything, even furnishings. , „ T Details? Mr Savage would not say. I must refer you to County Hall, Hertford. ’ Teaching? Mr Savage was tentative. " jf we decide on the scheme, it will be Intensified from the fourth year at school onward.” But about a report that some of his women teachers have been to Bond street for facials and make-up tips, and came away with a six months’ supply of cosmetics for a trial class, Mr Savage was definite. “It is inaccurate,” he said. Then he added: "As headmaster, if I ask my girls to stand on their heads for the good it will do them, I don’t expect to ask permission first. All I expect is to be answerable to the county authority for my instructions.”