Jottings About Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 16

Jottings About Town

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pENTURIES ago somebody's goosequill scratched out a saying- — "A woman's face is her fortune." But no one seems to have taken it seriously until quite recently when, the. Chicago Education Board sanctioned tuition m the use of cosmetics as a worthy innovation to the curriculum of girls' schools. It may, at first, sound rather ridiculous, but just reflect for a moment. Take a walk along any of our city thoroughfares. Count the number of females betwen the ages of 12 and ???-ty who do not take up modern chisels to the masonry of Nature and Time — very few! Retrace your steps and scrutinize the faces of matron and maid. Count the ghastly daubirigs of a clumsily-wielded powder ' puff, the squashed cherry effect of a "lippey" that aspired to the reproduction of a Billie Dove mouth, the clownish disfigurements of an over-used eye-pencil — alas, too many! : . Our streets carry a walking monument to the ancient sage who said: "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and there is more than a little common sense m introducing early to a girl's mind the fact that if she must jnake-up, let it be- done properly. The modern .woman's face toilet is now unmistakably an art, and as such can be feasibly recognized on the basis of education. Besides, as most girls know, you can safely: . wear, any- old -thing any-old-hpw, but make a mess of yourself at the dressing-table, and HE is the first one to notice it! ,