“MAKING-UP” AND HEALTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3254, 27 June 1911, Page 2

“MAKING-UP” AND HEALTH.

PAINT AND POWDER BENEFICIAL

LONDON- PHYSICIAN JUSTIFIES THEIR USE.

“Making-up often has a distinctly beneficial effect upon character, and many -women who habitually use cosmetics are justified in attempting to beautify themselves.” This ’ theory wee propounded by a leading medical man who has devoted considerable attention to the practice among society women of making up, who thinks the results of his observation show that the common attitude of condemning the woman who makes use of face pastes, paints and powders is often wrong. “Appearance means such a lot to a woman, mentally as well as socially,” he said, “that she is justified in aiding or improving nature if she secs fit. “Making up is, indeed, essential to the happiness of some women. A girl who has some slight personal defect a scar, a pcOr complexion, or bloodless lips, for example—is enormously handicapped. , r , • , “The knowledge of lie r defect, the thought that others mav notice and talk about it, makes her shy and lackmo- in self-eon fid cnee. “She shuns other people’s society on this account, and becomes morbid and miserable, missing much of the joy m life. “Now why should such a girl oe punished for‘a defect that she can conceal P Why should she shrink from using artificial means to hide her blemish for fear of whan the world may say?” ______________