The Washington times., 1919-10-23
BY-BY ROUGE
FOR 1000 GIRLS

1t will be bye-bye to rouge lip
sticks, powder puffs, eyebrow pencils,
short skirts, low necks, and peek-a-
boo waists for 1 900 Washington girls
in the very near future.
Mrs. Harry A. Colman, director of
the local Girl Scouts Association, an
nounced today that a reform move
ment aiming at simpler and saner
dressing among the girls would be
launched here within a few weeks.
The organization is so busy just now
preparing for its big financial drive.
which starts Saturday, that 1t is inn
possible to start the reform work at
once; but as soon as the girls obtain
their 10000 sustaining members-the
aim OF the eampaign-the war on
Wicked" dressing and vain habits
will begin.
The campaign will be conducted in
way that will not offend the girls
and drive them from the organization,
but that rather will show them the
beauty of naturalness and simplicity.
The girls will be taught that Old
Lady Nature can make their cheeks
and lips and eyebrows prC ttier than
any drug store preparations. They
will be taught that life in the open.
habits will develop in them a natural
beauty that managers of beauty par
lors can only Initiate, never equal or
surpass.
To Avoid "FIour Faees.-
Mrs. Coleman will try to make the
girls realize that a camouflage of
face powder does not beautify, but
merely makes the face assume a
ls10Ur haa. ,-s.I sL
that blackening the eyebrows only
over acentuates what already is per
feet, and therefore what cannot be
improved on. merely made Iessspretty.
She will tell the girls that short
skirts, low necks, and peek-a-boo
waists are dangerous because OF the
immoral effect that they are likely to
have upon society. She will shoY
them other styles which are just as
pretty and which do not offend public
decency or morality.
The girls will not be told point
blank to quit all these things
They will be shown no wit is to
their own advantage to abandon
them. They will be persuaded, rather
than ordered, and Mrs. Colman pre-
diets. that there will be no rebellion.
Some OF the troop leaders even plan
10 20 SO lar as 10 pTOnlDil the girls
from chewing gun. One troop al
ready has such rule in effect. This
step is deeme da little radical, how
ever, and it is unlikely that all OF the
girls will be urged to cut out the
gum. although they will be instructed
never to do their chewing in public.
That the girls a:e prepared for the
reform movement is illustrated by
the fact that at the Girl Scout camp
in September. seventy girls went two
weeks without using a mirror or a
powder puff. And this number like
wise included the leaders OF the
troops, grown women. who are sup
posed to set the example, and who.
OF course, would not think OF using
rouge or wearing peekaboos. II was
a bitter pill for many of the girls,
some OF whom are as old as eighteen,
but there never was a murmur.
Phe I.0O0 Girl Scouts of the city
have decided to contribute a penny
each to- the fund being raised here
for the erection in Belgium of a mon
ument and hospital in honor of Edith
CayeIL English martyr, and Marie
Depage, who at the beginning of the
war aroused America to a realization
Of the plight of Belgium and who lost
her life when the Lusitania went
down. This contribution is considered
generous, in view of the
fact that many of the girls already