Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-21
Little Talks by
Beatrice FaTfdr
by BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Do you paint? Are you an inn
/ pressiiontst, with pretty taste IN
. facial landscape effects? Do you
walk down displaying blazing sun
I set on either cheek and a snow-cap-
ped emineuce between, that suggests
Mount Blanc rather than a nose2
DO your facial color schemes sug-
gest the comic supplement- of a sun
I Gay newspaper or a North American
Indian on the warpath?
If these diversions have been your
favorite sport, indoor and outdoor
{ down on your knees and thank
Heaven you do not live in Patchogue,
/ l.. l, for the Village Board not only
| frowns on this sort of talent, it goes
| farther and has taken steps to have
/ the rabbitfoot impressionist locked
up. according to the following clip
ping:
so that the military police at Camp
| Upton will find 1t easier to tell mod
est girls from the brazen. the au-
the women are asked to give up cos
metics and gaudy clothes.
/ The board has also suggested the
arrest of unchaperoned misses caught
stroiling near the camp after p. m.
! DR.. Frank OVerton, State Sanitary
! Supervisor, backed the anticosmetic
resolution.
tect their compilations" he was ask
ed.
Soap. he replied, laconically." .
A great many girls, nice girls"
face washing edict as a cruel hard
ship. They don't see why the viii
lage board will not let them paint
in peace. What does it means by
sticking its nose in the, rouge pots
on their dressing tables?
And the village board, il it only
knew, might accomplish as much in
the way of reform by letting them
alone. Face painting is like a re-
current disease il crops up once
or twice in every generation, and
like the present attempt on Long
Island, the authorities have at va
rious times attempted municipal reg
ulations, but - that is not the real
.'HaIr of Dog That BIT You"
The real cure is repeated appliCa-
tiOns of face paint-in other words,
"A hair of the dog that bit you"
Or IL you prefer the more elegant
motto of homeopathy, "similia sim
ilibus curantur," which being trans
lated means, Like cure like" ..
For where the hand painted COM
pleNions is universal, and each ar
tst outpaints her neighbor and color
lis piled on color, red. on red, there
comes point at which even genius
must stop.
There is nothing redder than scar
let, and after awhile even the pos
Sibilties of scarlet and white become
exhausted, as Witness the clown in
All the Kings horses and the
Kings men can't make Humpty
, Dumpty's face whittier, nor his red
spots. redder - he has got to stop
and do something else to attract at
The same rule holds good in re-,
gard to girls. With every face
screaming scarlet, the woman TO at
fThp trufh n fhia al
gradually, into the understanding of
the painted sex then there Is q
; boom in soap! The boom lasts for
years sometimes, aad facial express
sionists, II they paint at all, do Ii
so well and unobtrusiyely as to de-
ceive even the elect.
Then they begin again and we
have the same ebb and flow of color
as we have had through the ages:
since Cleopatra had herself bailed up
in choice rug and took that means
of calling on julius Caesar, who ii
appears did not care about receiving
her at first.
Face painting as it is carried on
to-day is not an art, as it was
twenty years age, il is a challenge!
blow in the face of every passer-
| by il is an unwritten demand:
avoid seeing me, If you darem
1t is interesting to the student of
psychology. as denoting a phase of
wOman"s development. or decadence.
Z ".
one could call 1t pretty at this vio-
lent stage of its progression, and a
girl might achieve the same results in
the way of attracting attention by
painting her face blue, for a change,
! like the early Britons.
History of Face Painting
"a History of Face Painting"
would be "a distinctly useful hand
book to the various municipal boards
that, from time to time, attempt TO
poin out to the gullible male the true
from the false.
The historian would probably be-
gin with the Queen of Sheba's visit
to King Solomon and the number
OF camels that were loaded with the
lady's complexion accessories
A great many of the women of
antiquity took no chance with death
They had their favorite lotions and
cosmetics bundled up and put into
their sarcophagl with them. They
didn't know where they were going
and they decided to go prepared.
Their bodies have shrivelled. n
handful of dust is all that remains
of them and their desire to look
beautiful. but the fragile Etruscan
glass receptacles that held the beau
tifiers still exist, monument TO
women's eternal desire to please
man.
/ have had lnnumerable letters
from various sources on the subject
OF face painting. Mothers want to
know why their daughters who have