1904—1929—AND AFTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11132, 15 February 1930, Page 12

1904—1929—AND AFTER.

S - tm L ‘ harry, harpy Woman i 0 ' lovelier, than ever. I (By Harrington Alain, the famous s artist). i 'There lias been some controversy lately upon the subject of loveliness , to-day compared with the ideal of . beauty of past centuries. We have , no records of the beauty of Cleopatra or Helen of Troy—only tradi- [, tiom A\ e have fairly accurate pictorial records of the great women of the , loth and 16th centuries, hut of the humbler and .peasant types of that . epoch we can say nothing whatever. : The task of comparison is easier over the last twenty-five years. Wo liavjO perfect authentic records through photography and countless reliahle portraits. There are solid reasons for the argument that there is an upward trend always. The young girl of today is taller and leads a more healthy life, she knows that a good sun- ; burning is an added touch of tyShe knows she. can rouge her lips and color her cheeks by artifice without .incurring the-.scorn of her sisters, her-cousins, or.even her aunts She has learnt that in dress she can do not better than follow the lino of her body as God designed it. Her silk stockings are prettier than long skirts and petticoats why should slio hide or disguise the shape of her figure? I have loft till the last the adornment of woman’s face, but it is the argument. She follows the shape of her-head. Her hats fit her, they do not perch, on the top of her head. There, arc no dead birds or artificial flowers or ribbons to make the shape •’ more grotesque. A woman with a finely moulded skull has nothing i more to do than to clothe it like a j glove tight round her face and forget about her hair altogether if she ( likes. 1

Therefore I think a woman looks more beautiful, mainly because rue knows that she cannot go wrong if she sticks to nature’s lines and loaves all distortion of form In-fLo generations ol the- past.