RELICS OF BEAUTY CULTURE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

RELICS OF BEAUTY CULTURE

THE CRITIC OF MODERN WOMAN. The critic of modern woman invariably attacks her because of the time and money spent on beauty culture. Was there ever an age when there were so many devices pandering to the vanity of woman as to-day? The critic is misled if he thinks that the women of the past were less concerned to appear attractive. The only difference between the girl of to-day and the girl of 1829 or A.D. 29, or even of remote Egyptian and Babylonian times, is that the mechanism of beauty culture is no longer a secret, states a writer in an English magazine. There is a pronounced publicity nowadays about the desire to make the best of herself, a stampede toward the goal of charm. The girl of other time was less obvious with her lipstick and powderpuff, but is a singular and amusing fact that, whenever the relics of another civilisation are unearthed, implements of beauty culture are always among them. In the excavations on the site of the Bank of England a number of early eighteenth century wig-curlers have been discovered. When we look at the mountainous coiffeurs of the women of those days we are inclined to prefer even the Eton crop.