The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-16
Fair Sex Use Powder and Rouge
To Please Selfish Males Only,
ADers Expert in Heart Affairs

as being separate and distinct from
men and having The right to exist for
/ themselves and to think for Them
selyes-yea, and to powder their
noses II they like their noses better
that way"
Reasons for Powdering Noses.
What do we powder our noses for,
anyway? Surely, that they may not
appear shiny in the eyes Of those We
strive to please. One of the funniest.
yet most pathetic sights have ever
witnessed. was that Of bride Of six
months who turned to me from sick
bed, while her husband stood help
lessly beside her, and exclaimed trag-
ically: do you think Jack will love
me any more? How can he? He has
seen me without my rouge
These hours that we spend at the
dressmakers, the tailors or the hair
dresser's, these afternoons that we
waste before the mirror trying to find
new way to do our hair, does any
one imagine that we employ them to
make ourselves delectable in the eyes
of our sister women?
Consider woman going to the
theater with her beloved. Does she
not begin to dress at o'clock? Does
she not change her gown three times?
Does she not abstain religiously from
salad dressing because of the garlic
therein? And the beloved-what does
he do meantime.
yanities Really Humilities.
He eats beefsteak and onions. he
examines his face anxiously toward
evening, hoping against hope that 1t
will do without fresh shave. He
drinks his usual drink, smokes his US
ual smoke, thinking not whether his
breath shall be berry and tobacco
laden when he goeth to meet his fair
one. He pats himself on the back for
not being late. He thinks how lucky
how honored among all her kind Is
the maiden he has chosen for his own.
All these things that you consider
our vanities are really our humility;
our powder, our rouge, our lipsticks
IL we use them; the fact that we wear
our waists under our armpits one year
and about our knees the next are sill
ent evidences Of a lowly spirit. the
mute, pathetic witnesses to our self
distrust. Mans fashions never change
he says proudly.
Means Day of Boycott.
OF course not; he Is satisfied with
them. Man parts his hair on the side
from his first hour in Sunday school
to his last on earth. OF course he
does. for no doubt of his invincible at
Effectiveness disturbs him in all that
time. Why gild the lily, paint the
rose or stop drinking beer when he
weighs 200 pounds The answer is
that he does none of these things.
How do the beauty experts live? By
women. Who buys the books on diet
or new systems Of exercise? Women.
of course. Who does the starving, the
rolling, the lettuce eating, the butter
milk drinking? Women, of course.
And it is not because of her self sat
isfaction, but because Of her self dis
trust.
The day that we stop powdering our
noses, young men, will be the day
when we cease to care whether we
are wall flowers or not-the day when
we boycott you.
Should Initiate Her Meekness.
It seems very remote at the pres
ent writing, and surely few ruined
coat lapels are a small price to pay
for the knowledge that. one and all,
we live only in your smiles-as wit
ness the powder on our noses.
/ wonder II any man alive has ever
thought about an attractive woman in
any other terms than such as express
her value as ministrant to him
wife, mother, sister, grandmother or
aunt? Have you ever pondered the
ingenious vanity which causes the
candid male to refer to a literary pro-
duction he admires as he-story, a
he-book? have never heard a wom-
an express her approval Of a work
Of art in terms OF her sex. Do women
refer to she-cathedral, shetland
scape because 1t happens to please
them? The most rabid woman hater
cannot answer yes.
And the reason is because we are
an humble, self distrustful, anxious
sisterhood, whose humility is attested
by every grain of powder on our
noses, every island Of rouge upon our
whitewashed cheeks. Let man take
as his resolution for 1916 the deter
mination to initiate woman in her
lowliness and meekness Of heart.