NATURE’S FIRST AID.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19698, 16 January 1934, Page 10

NATURE’S FIRST AID.

Have you ever noticed that the brother who rates his sister before they go out to a dance for using a little powder and a touch of rouge, never spends his time with the drab little pale-faced girl in a corner? The minute he gets to the party he navigates to the girl with the rose-leaf complexion, the marcel wave or bobbed hair, red lips and thinly-arched eyebrows. He would not believe you if you told him that most of these charms were accomplished before her mirror with the aid of many toilet requisites. He would say that the girl was wellgroomed, that she knew how to take care of her skin—anyone could see that. And he would probably call you a cat and say that you were jealous. Men surely are blind about certain things—which is just as well. Of course, we all know' that good grooming—meaning a regime of diet, fresh air, daily bathing and right thinking—is the best cosmetic. Nothing can endow the face with a lovelier glow than health of body and soul—plus a dainty touch of colour here and there. Pallor is, sometimes, a very pretty thing, but all pale faces are not good to look upon. And if Nature has fallen down on her job—why should we not resort to colour?—even as we have resorted to artificial aid in our coiffures. A discreet use of cosmetics is Nature’s first aid. Not to make you look artificial—but to make you look as beautiful as Nature should have made you.