The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-19

culine attitude toward the Powder Puff?"
 I'm not aware that there IS any masculine attitude toward it." he an- nounced. Powder, of course, is de- cried by the best men, In the first place it isn't clean. Why will women spend hours scrubbing and soaping and massaging their faces and then | fill up all the pores with that awful compound of white lead and perfume ?" You talk like one of those green leaflets" the Widow cite remarked, ''one gets at the door of a Drug Store. French women are the prettiest wom- deny American women the harmless fun of making themselves up like cun- ming little Pierrettes?" They ought to give up powdering altogether" he insisted.
 They will when they get themselves to a nunnery, where a shiny nose isn't rated as the first defect against an other wise fair face." was the reply. DO you recall MT. w. J. Locke's heroine of 35- Clementina? Even the creator of the whimsical and unwordly Septimus is at last waking up to the fact that the small non-essentials of life fill the scale when great issues are to be decided. Poor Clementina is held up for ridicule be- cause her hair was poorly arranged and she knew nothing about powdering her nose."
 "If she'd had pink Powder Rag" the Bachelor interrupted.
 "She would have made that boy whom she thought she loved love her." said the Widow-ette knowingly. "As a beau tifier--''
 "You are in short trying to find out" he said.
 ''Why. man falls heels over head in r l.. ~11~ within an inch of her life, and yet at the first glimpse of her pink powder rag he nearly faints. You've got to fool 'em. That's it. I see," said the Widow-ette.
 "rhe ethics of the Powder Puff" he started
 'Is a relic of the park Dark Ages" she said. Nobody ever uses it now ex- cept in extreme cases when one is far from home and absolutely without any other refreshment to offer her cherished complexion. The ethics of my Powder Puff are very simple. I think if I knew I had a beautiful pink face that glowed more beautiful under pink powder, I'd put 1t on, unashamed, and rub it off again. That's the first tenet these days of the successful powderer. anyway. She puts pounds on her face, not to hide the grime. but just to refresh and cool her self off. and because it's fashionable. What you mean, though. is that you'd rather not see the process"
 "Of course, I hadn't" he snapped. why I go to the Ball Games and look around and half of the women In the Grand Stand and the Boxes are looking in a mirror about the size of dollar and smearing something on her face out of little box with pink powder rag I've seen 'em using their pink powder rags while they waited for their change in the stores. When you are in the train every woman in it powders her nose when she's going through tunnel. see 'em powdering their noses in front of the little mirrors in the Taxi Cabs, and when they are standing on the street corner waiting for a car, I've seen 'em behind a foolish little lace handkerchief dash it on their nose.
 certainly" the widow-ette agreed, quite unperturbed Every instance you mention is a time when woman might brought her luck. Once I kAew a girl who owed her brilliant success in life to a little foolish Pink Powder Rag"
 "Tell me about it." he begged inter- estedly.
 Pittsburg Milionare-and he married her because she had such lovely pink skin" she related.
 And the ethics of that-was?' he asked.
 Nothing she answered gently. "Those who knew were sure in their minds that a little old Pink Powder Rag made the match. That's all"