HARD FACES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 28 (Supplement)

HARD FACES

PROBLEM FOR 'WOMEN. EFFECT OF SPORT. Sydney, August 7. Many Australian women are faced with the problem of how to engage in sport and yet retain smooth cheeks and soft lines in their faces, according to a Sydney beauty specialist, who declares that hard-faced women are increasing because they take their sport too seriously. “What does a typical horse-trainer look like?” she asked, and she answered: “Why, a horse. He has a lean, restless look, like onej|of his own charges, because he is always thinking about horses. Before very long he looks exactly like a horse.” Women flyers, motorists, golfers, and even bridge players, all go to the specialists to have the lines removed from beneath their eyes and a certain grimness from their jaws. “The sport itself would not hurt,” the specialist explained. “But these women think of nothing else. The flyers come here, and even while they are being treated they talk of struts, propellers, motors, and new models, so that while the lines and the calculating jaws are being combatted they are putting in new lines, screwing up their eyes and tightening their jaws.” .Of course,, women flyers do not begin to look like aeroplanes, nor does the golfer take on the shape of a niblick; but as soon as the sports-woman gets carried away by her recreation, thinks of it all day, and dreams of it by night, her face begins to harden. Australian sunshine is blamed , for a great amount of the damage, but the specialist has pointed out that the confirmed bridge player also has fine lines under the eyes, and a grim jaw. The English sportswoman is not so serious, and the American takes much greater care of her face than the Englishwoman or the Australian. TJae specialist’s advice is: Take up sport, but treat it strictly as a' sport. «