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Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 55

Beauty Midway Between Two Uglinesses. EASTERN AND WESTERN IDEALS. 7TRTUE,” says Aristotle, "is a mean v between two vices.'’ Thus generosity is a mean between foolish extravagance and avarice; modesty a mean between prudishness and wantonness ; a good comedy a mean between a revue and a propagandist play. I suppose the reverse is true —i.e., that a vice is a mean between two virtues. But there i„s probably something wrong in the assumption. Lake the converse of “All cabbages are vegetables,” which is “All vegetables are cabbages,” and which landed one in a logical muddle in one's schooldays. The axiom holds goods when applied to beauty: a beautiful figure is the mean between the ugly extremes of leanness anc! obesity. A beautiful face has neither too much nor too little hair upon it —crudely, in a woman, the eyebrows and lashes are luxuriant, yet no downy growth blurs the outline of cheek and upper lip. Our convention which demands that women should have long eyelashes hut no moustaches would probably seem curious to certain savag'es who shave eyebrows and lashes, and admire moustaches in women, just as cur partiality fer white teeth would astonish the Hottentots who prefer them black or yellow ! In Europe, however, and among the civilised Eastern races, the beauty that long curling eyelashes and delicately marked brows cannot be over-estimated. What, glorious lashes one sees in the East ; especially among, the Greek girls in the native quarter of Cairo. The tendency among such beauties to grow superfluous hair on the face is combated by the razor or by depilatory paste, recipes handed down sometimes from the days of Cleopatra or tho glory of Cartilage. In this country women are beginning to realise that neither shaving nor electrolysis are ideal for removing unwanted hair. A method which is sieadily gaining in populatity is that of treat ng the superfluous hair with a paste made of p..ra prerninol and water, 'i he paste is spread rather thickly on the hair, and allowed to dry thoroughly. The hair is completely destroyed and can then bo painlessly removed with a very blunt knife or a picc® of cardboard. The application of a little tekko paste is recommended after the hair has been removed with the phcminol. The trouble with most women, however, is not lhat they have too much hair on their face,, but too little. Scanty eyebrows, and poor, light lashes are common in this country, and often render an otherwiso charming face insipid or even plain. It is a good and safe plan to encourage tho growth of brows and lashes by the occasional applied >n of a little mennalina. r.leunaline is rather a pleasant substance to use, and it. lias the advantage of not only increasing the giowth of the eye* lashes, but also of giving them a delightful inclination to curl up at the tips. The eyes owe half their expression and "harm to the lashes surrounding them, just as the face owes so much to its frame of hair. The Modern Woman is busier, more energetic, and has more enthusiasm than the woman of days gone by. And naturally she is harder on her dodoes especially on her corset. Warner's * ' £usf - Proof-' (f onsets - are designed ar.d made accordingly. They hold their shape through hardest wear —all'—' free movement always ensure comfort and a well-groometJ appearance. Obtainable in back and front lacing. Guaranteed not to rust, break or tear. Wholesale Distributors for New Zealand: ROSS & (iLENDININCi (LTD.). r SP