NATURAL BEAUTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17986, 3 April 1930, Page 5

NATURAL BEAUTY.

Powder, rouge, and lipstick, and the shingled head provided Sir Thomas Oliver, consulting physician of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, {Newcastle on Tyne, with a subject for his presidential address lo the institute of Triehologists—scientists of the hairin London recently. “hi restaurants and tea rooms,” said Sir Thomas, “we see young women, with handbags open, carefully scrutinise their faces in a small mirror. The bare parts are touched with powder and paste, and the exhibition .is brought lo a close by ‘titivating’ the hair. This cannot be commended on hygienic grounds.” Many girls thought they could improve nature or artificially make a complexion beautiful. There were many who need never use powder, rouge, or lipstiok. The artificial could never equal the natural. Less and less was seen of anaemia to-day, because girls spent more time in the open air and engaged more in games. Long hair, notwithstanding modern fashions, remained attractive and was the glory of womanhood. Shingling in many instances added to a woman's beauty, if Urn face was good, hut it did not suit all. It. did not add to the intellectual side of woman's attractiveness. It was part of a beauty craze. The ancient Egyptians were familiar with cosmetics. When Rome was at the height of her glory, women finely draped, rouged and powdered, visited the Colloseum on great occasions and

reclined with their feet on seats until t.tic sun’s rays made streams /of coloured liquid trickle down their faces. In the United States the use of eosr melies had been followed by ill-health. In some cosmetics the pigment had been mixed with benzole. Allowing for climatic and other conditions, the most civilised nations are the best washed.