MAKEUP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 5

MAKEUP

DESTROYS ALL PRETTINESS. Make-up destroys all prettiness and accentuates the mask-like appearance, but today most women feel positively naked unless they are sheltering behind lipstick. The emotional woman grows old much quicker than the calm one. Each different emotion has, for the most part, its own special organ of expression. Thus rage hastens the heartbeats, shame dilates certain blood vessels, fear reduces the tone of many muscles, dilates the iris, and dries up the glands of the mouth. The nervous person is a person in whom the nerve centres are not sufficiently under normal control. Some of the expressions of nervousness are restlessness, sleeplessness, irritability of temper, emotions too easily roused, a tendency to weeping, some forms of indigestion, altered heart-beat, headache.

There is a gradual or sudden failure of the staying power of the nervous system which expresses itself in that common experience, a nervous breakdown; and a nervous breakdown would seem to be commoner among men than Women.

Sleep is the natural process of giving rest to the nerves, of getting rid of the effects .of “fatigue poisons” circulating in the blood.