The Washington times., 1914-04-01
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ANNIE LAURIE
ANNIE LAOklE

My brother says that no girl who
raints her face is respectable.
1 know that isn't true. for ! have
| lots Of girl friends who paint and
powder and make up their Dyes. too
| and they are good girls. / know It.
| I don't paint because my brother
makes such an awful fuss about It.
! Ny mother doesn't believe In 1t.
either. but she wouldn't know II II
] did paint, and would look a whole
lot better. all the girls say. I am
sallow and dark, and II makes me
look sickly. I don't see what harm
there would be In my putting a lit
tie red on my cheeks. do you? Please
answer, SINCERE.
l@O brother thinks that no girl can
paint her checks anG be decent,
~ does he? He must know very
few respectable girls. I'm afraid
or else he can't toll paint when he secs
1t. I'm rather inclined to sympathize
with brother in his point Of view.
know Just what makes him feel the
way he does about It, but when he
gets too excited over It just ask him
If he thinks a man can smoke cigar
cites and be sensible, and see what he
says.
Also I'd notice the sort of girls
brother picks out to dance with when
he goes to . tango evening.
Does he choose a nice. quiet, modest
little girl, all dressed In quiet gray or
dull brown. or does no select tho gayest
girl in the room for his partner?
II he really likes quiet girls with
their own compilations. and shows 1t
by paying real attention to them. why,
you can pay real attention to what
brother says. for there's some chance
that he may possibly mean it-about
somebody else besides you
OF course. he's all wrong when he
says that any gin who makes up her
complexion II not respectable.
Nine girls out Of ten powder, and
seven girls out of ten rouge. After all.
years ago q gir! who rouged put out a
sign which every man who saw 1t read
only too easily.
That sign doesn't mean tho same
thing at all today.
Tho made-up complexion has coraeNn
with tho dancing slippers for the street.
the slit skirt. and the daring hat. It
will 60 out when they go out.
hate to see a young girl mako up
almost as badly as I hate to see a ma
turc woman dye her hair.
There IS nothing in the world 90 beau
tiful. so attractive. and 50 Irresistible
as youth. and there is something about
a made-up complexion that adds years
to any girl.
You'll never be young but once. little
girl Do stay young and girlish and
natural as long as you possibly can.
Take plenty OF baths, plenty OF exer-
else. sleep in a room with the windows
open. don't eat cake or caniy Or pastry
wrong with you you'll have a skin that
Is a thousand times prettier than any
paint could ever make 1t.
Let the fading woman Of thirty paint.
and think that nobody knows. You stick
to your own girlish complexion and
her at that every day in the week and
not half try.
when I was q girl Of eighteen I had
friend. a widow of thirty.
crazy by trying to be like nv friend. I
had a lot Of thick. luxuriant hair Of my
own. but my friend wore a waved bang
so I had to wear one. too, plastered
down over my thick mop. 1t must have
been hideous.
My friend darkened her eyelashes. too.
So did I. and I succeeded by that simple
method in making myself look at least
ten years older than I was. I wore
black. and tried my best to assume an
expression half-b-okenhearted and half
knowing. I should think my mother
would have shut me up somewhere on
bread and water. deserved IT. My
friend. the widow, WAS OF course, de-
lighted. | was just cheap imitation
OF her. and ! deliberately threw away
all my own attractions to be that ini- |
tation-
Don't be as silly as was. little girl.
Lot tho widows and the elderly bellies |
do the making-up and tho painting. |
They have to.
You do not-yet.
Copyright. 1874. Newspaper Feature series.)