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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 7 (Supplement)

Make-up for Schoolgirls? Should schoolgirls ; be permitted to use powder-puffs, rouge their lips, and employ other artificial aids to beauty? The growing practice among French college girls of making-up has raised a controversy which may lead to action by the Minister of Education, states a writer in a London journal. In principle, powder-puffs are forbidden in girls’ boarding schools, but headmistresses have generally confined themselves to drawing the attenf m of pupils to the regulations and then turned a blind eye to the practice. “The modern girl,” said the headmistress of a Paris girls’ college, “is so clever in the art of make-up that it is often hard to say whether or not she deserves a reprimand. I do not consider the use of powder-puffs, rouge, and beauty creams as immoral in itself, but a fresh-coni-plexioned girl of 16 or 17 should not require any artificial aids to beauty, and it would be deplorable for the good name of our boarding schools if the habit were allowed to spread.”

I often wonder how old knights, Who wore those natty suits Of steel and chain mail; helmets, too! And iron things for their boots. * I say I often wonder how These things they could endure, To sneeze in armour and without Some Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure