The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-02
A Word In Favor Of Means Whereby Fair Woman Makes
 Herself More Fair
If Done At All Should Be Done Righ-"Firs Aid to the
 Beautiful Scorned At First But Afterward Couldn't Live Without It-Now Defends Position Strenuously
ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

Not really?n exclaimed her companion. Was 1t badly done? Is that what you are raising such hullabaloo about?'
 "Too we'll said number one. What do you think? She took a red artificial rose out of her slipper bag and wet it with her hips and smeared the red stuff all over her face. Now, what do you think she is coming to-"
 Blood poisoning or some horrible skin disease' said her friend Why doesn't she do 1t properly? There is no excuse for a woman doing such Crude and obso- lete things in this day and time. when the beauty doctors offer such perfect methods"
 Peggy and l then held a consultation and we felt sure that if that particular persons remarks ever got to the rouged ladys ears she would never more be re- ceived in that sanctum, but would be os- tracked without loss of time, and as we were busy deciding this question, up tripped another woman, who when asked by the demonstration, to stop and inspect the delightful articles she had for sale. scorned all First aids to beauty, as she would the smallpox, and Peggy and 1 looking at her just hoped the demonstra- tor was going to have magnetism enough to interest that especial person, because IL ever llleIt WAS dHNDOuN III uttu LII beautifying, that was the lady.
 To her mind, powders, tonics, pompa- dour cushions, psyche knots, botticelli coiffures, were alike anathema and were in one red burial blent. And she boast ed to the beauty lady that she owed noth- ing of her looks to eXtraneous means, and Peggy nudged me and said:
 "A blind man could see that"
 And then I recalled to Peggy such funny story about a woman who looked very like this one It seems that the one I knew came home one evening to find her husband sitting alone by the library | fire, and in a moment of especial self righteousness, and looking at her wist- fully after she had seated herself, said You look so queer, dear" What's the matter, James, reflected | she, knowing that whatever it was 1t couldn't be rouge or powder. | Now, James being only mere man. ' and nothing if not untactful (with his own wife, calmly replied:
 T was just thinking how pretty Browns wife is
 At this an outburst akin to an earth quake shook the room, and the irate | wife replied:
 Now. Thomas, I am going to rell you something that is for your ears alone; I wouldn't say this to anybody else for the world, but that woman makes up. She rouges and pencils her eyebrows and paints her lips and cheeks and she wears false harl Now, then!'
 | But instead of the dull thud she ex- pected, Thomas replied:
 | Well, she does it alarmed well. Do you think she'd tell you where she gets | it, so you could use some of 1t, too?" | All of which, believe me- does not mean that l approve of "extraneous means improperly applied, for l do not.
 But 1 do believe that when one is go- | ing to use cosmetics it is wise to secure the best, and go to those to put it on who will do it properly, and teach you to do it that way. And I must say l am | like most men In one particular! l do admire a pretty woman and I never know | half the time when she is artificial or perfectly natural. All l know is she is pretty, and I like that
 1 In my opinion, poor belated white eyebrowed person, bordering on the Al bino type, Is absolutely justifiable in pen cling her eyebrows, though l hope she will always take the precaution to see that the pencil is black one and not a | dark blue, such as a friend of mine used | inadvertently the other day to the great | merriment of those who saw her after ward-and that's just where the beauty doctor comes in.