The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-26
MUCH BEAUTY DOPE POISONOUS SAYS STATE
Many Skin Foods and Other First Aids to the Desper-
ate Are Made Up of Deadly Ingredients Which
Leave the Face Worse Than Before.
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
The following interesting bulletin is-
sues from the state capital:
Five complexion creams, guaranteed
to feed the skin" and restore the
the state board of health by the chief
chemist, H. E. Barnard, as containing
prussic acid. gum t~ragacanth. wood al
cohol. citric acid and tale. One of the
creams labeled Almond" gave of an
odor of almonds caused by the pres
ence of benzaldehyde.
Wood alcohol is deadly to h optic
nerve and in the case of a cosmetic
advertised to remove freckles Mr..
Barnard reported: "As to freckles, the
only way the user might hope to bene-
eyes Of her best beau. That would eff
f~ectually prevent seeing her sun
marks.
I'VE are no able to find the slight
est trace of good in the cosmetics.
There is nothing to make the skin soft
or restore the bloom of youth"
These are they which make the pop
ulace shudder and grow pale.
For 1t Is a fact that the use of cos
metics is widespread"
They're like drugs.
Their effects are so subtle that very
few people recognize them.
You hear on every hand of the uni
versal and constant Use of drugs.
But do you honestly actually know
anybody that uses EN-?
And yet they say their victims are
to be found in every other house and
flourish as the green bay tree.
So it is with cosmetics.
No oma living or dead will adj
nit that she uses 'em.
With the beautiful flush of youth on
her cheek bought at the drugstore or
Of the agent who delivers the goods
sub rosa. she unblushingly-literally
unblushingly for she can't blush If she
would-declares that she Eve saw
rouge in her life.
The still hunt for beauty doctors
continues apace Notwithstanding warn.
ings from the pure food experts and
the evangelists.
The pity of it, some people say.
But why?
To look nice is exemplary.
So far as women are concerned not
one of EN- would yer take the trouble
il it wasn't for the men.
Men have established a standard.
Women must be young. Not neces-
sarily beautiful, but always young. To
be old is a crime, say the men.
They deny they say it. .
You only have to go to "Everywom-
an" to see it symbolized as a world
and life truth.
Contours and color.
That is what are demanded of wom-
on. Not having any recipe for %insulari-
cation of time or having occult powers
to command the years to stand still,
she seeks to fill up he hiatuses with
the first aids from the drugstore.
Also with rubbings and poundings
and %kneadings and ~stretchings and
| skinnings and what else God o
The grim sardonics of 1t are not the
least of its appeal.
And the humour
In instance never was there any.
thing funnier than the advent OF two
women in this town a few years ago
who inaugurated a sort of cult whose
chief tenets were to look pleasant.
breathe deep, stand on your head and
lend a hand.
The matfnees personally conducted
by these experts resembled nothing
more closely than the pony ballet.
oAioc If croof ropfif,16o ond nm
doubted ~avoirdupois whose names are
found on the list of the Richmond's
finest" in the field of the clubs, La
dies Aid and Missionary Societies lay
in rows on the floor and projected
their pedal extremities into the more
or less ambient atmosphere.
The experts would go down the line
punching and kneading these feminine
pillars of society in their search for
health and happiness.
Happiness" said the expert, lis for
all. II your complexion goes back on
you do o repine. Life holds many
| joys in store for you. Walk five miles
before breakfast, live on grits, chew
Ave times before swallowing. stand on
your head each day after offering pray
er before an pen window, and do good
unto others. The loss Of your complex
ion will not be noticeable.
I'm the meantime you can join our
!! club by handing your dues to my as
| sistant who will stand at the door as
you go out"
Women flocked to these meetings
by the dozens.
More pony ballets.
| Sunday-school teachers and presi-
!! dents of missionary societies were do
ing amateur stunt which would put
burlesque shows to shame. Women
who hadn't walked six blocks in that
many years were YEARLY tramping the
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