A FAIR CORRESPONDENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 73

A FAIR CORRESPONDENT.

< r Another_ letter from Mdlle. Helene Rubinstein reached me the other day, arid

I pass it on to my readers as being in-

teresting to those who require her beauty . cult and those who don t care a dump about toilet preparations, yet appreciate a good letter- full of curious developments: So here it is:— I am still in the Hohenzollern town, Berlin. There is more-^to do here than I anticipated. The city is simply given over to "the ambiton of out-Parising Paris in Bohemdanism. But any interest in Berlin does not^ turn on this circumstance. It is because of the phenomenal progress which this Prussian town las made in beauty culture that I am obliged on my third month's sojotirn in Berlin. Two- years only have elapsed since I was here last. Since -then so many new things nave sprung Tip that have for their object the enhancement of woman's beauty that I am simply bewildered 1 . - "It seems as though quite a. considerable portion of men of science, serious and earnest men, had "taken , vows to devote their lives ■io the salvation" of Geimania's beauty. Have , these Parsifals arisen- because Germanic is

in dire, need of them? - Troth to say, if you meet an attractive - -, iroman "in the sffcreets of Berlin, i^ >is safe - to say -that she wtte not" lorn -on the Spree, or that' she was not quite "as attractive ar year or so ago. - However, the doughty German scientists are certainly trying their utxnost to make - the best of — shall I say an. - indifferent job? For instance: Suppose Fraulein has a good olive -complexion and fine, dark, glossy bail, - but the shape of her eyes is in some way"- repugnant to harmony of features. If the eye could be made, longer or given almond shape, the head, ■would then be one of perfectly' Oriental type. The delicate hand of an expert makes an incision at the outside corners of the eyes, and 'this" added length of the eyelids will make the eyes "fit enough to ' adorn the head of a favourite -wife of the Sultan. Just now another oculist in Berlin is studiously working on a process of permanently changing the colour of th« : eyes. >Y«u have -a Watery, colourless eye? Very -well — it shall be made a, fiery black or a lovely limpid blue, and at shall retain that colour to your dying day. I have seen' < thin straight lips lose their shrewish thinness and straightaess. How? They were made fuller and, given charming curves by tattooing.- Your eye would 1 have to he of more than ordinary keenness to ; distinguish the natural colour of the- lips from "the red which had been tattooed into the skin — to remain -there for ever. Remarkable things, you may say. Perhaps, but if " they contribute ~ the tiniest bit to the sum --- total of human happiness, who is"~lhere to raise the voice in cavil? Of the various methods of beautification and beauty preparations which are brought under my notice, only those which have stood the severe tests ■to whick I subject them find their way to my institutes in Australasia.