Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-12
Artificial Beauty Can Gather Very Lit
tie Comfort from Democratic
Tariff.
PERFUMERY, COLOGNE AND
OTHER THINGS BOOSTED
False Teeth and Bustles About Only
Beautifiers That VIII Come Into
Country Duty Free.
BY BOND P. eEDDEs.
(staff Correspondent of the United
Press.)

Press.)
Washington, Nov. 12. There's
mighty little hope for the drug store
blond and the artificial beauty, in the
new Democratic tariff law. If not nat
furally beautiful or enhancing and the
ancient and masculine partiality for the
girl who classes as "good looker''
doesn't change, it's good night for
yours One thing seems evident and
that is that the Democratic tariff fran
ers did more to discourage the use of
face paint and enamels and chastity
nose powders than all the mothers
clubs and reformers' organizations
could have accomplished in hundred
years. OF course if your beauty can t
be washed off, the tariff doesn't affect
you. But if you got the color of your
cheeks or hair from a drug store, and
depend solely on artificiality for your
beauty and attractiveness, you d better
make up your mind to ask father or
hubby for a bigger allowance or pre-
pare to be "wall flower" hence=
forth.
With the exception of false teeth, tai
cum powder and bustles, everything
from switches" to cosmetics win
cost more than heretofore because Of
increases in import duties. Paint and
pastes, lotions and lozenges, powder and
perfumery, sachet-smell and switches
in fact, practically all the beautifiers
so dear to the feminine heart, have
had the import duties increased--and
therefore they'll be dearer. The beau.
tifiers which haven't had the import
raised, haven't had 1t lowered, SO
they III cost as much If not more. Those
Democratic tariff trainers, if they are
at all to be Judged by their attitude to.
ward artificial beauty, are as straight
laced when it comes to face powder and
rouge, as the most inexorable Puritan
preacher who ever, from the pulpit, de-
nouneed frills, furbelows and feathers
Taking all the increased duties ON toi.
lette accessories and striking an aver.
age, women and girls win have to pay
from 2 to s per cent more than former.
ly for the following articles:
Perfumery, cologne, toilet water
sachet powder, all applications for the
hair (including dyes), mouth washes,
tooth pastes, skin preparations, tooth
soaps, cosmetics, some face and body
powders and many others.
False teeth and bustIes, which lat.
ter are classed as "attire made OF
wire, are about the only beautifiers
that will come in duty free. Nothing
personal is meant by saying that good
many more women than will admit II
will be thankful for these The new
law does decrease the tariff on talcun
powders and some perfumed soaps and
camphor. But the tax on musk, that Sc
ductive, overwhelmingly and perennial
ly popular perfume, is boosted. Nj
lady's powder rag of chamois will comt
in with 20 per cent reduction, but as
one of these lasts a mighty long time
the decrease hasn' t produced an pwfu
lot Of cheering and applause. Yes, there
is one other hope. The duty on mani
cure Instruments has been shaved, 81
you can keep your fingers "pretty'
as cheaply as before, at any rate.