The Washington times., 1919-10-05

Prom Brooklyn. 81 =, comes the
that rouge. face powder
eyebrow pencils and the fluid that
impaFts to the hair that natural wave
and indelibIe gold have gone uD un-
Feasonabiy in price The District
Attorneg has been appealed 20. Vghere-
upon the sllc Of cosmetics have
come forth hastily with the assertion
that their prices have been raised
far less than the prices 81 materials.
And it - said that complaints about
tbe high cost-of good looks have been
heard elseRhene, although BrOoklgu
IS the oniy city ih which the indigs
nation has gone 90 far as to demand
prosecution
According 20 the manager Of one or
the leading beauty shops in Washing
ton, there has been a tremendous In
crease In the cost Of cosmetics, but
she attributes that 20 the greatly in
creased demand.
Twenty women. use rouge and
powder now TO one who INDUCED
three or four years ago" she said.
''Formerly IL was only women around
thirty years OF age who used cos
metics extensively; now all ages from
eighteen to sixty, and On many cases
siNty-five. indulge. Some time ago
the woman who used rouge was con-
sidered wicked, and the novel always
closed with the hero and heroine
clinched while the powdered woman
walked out into the night, in the gen
erRl direction, II was understood, OF
the river. Now All that Is changed,
and the only sin is to look old"
CuFl-PaPer Cure Costly.
But the price OF beauty has risen
tremendously, all the beauty shops
agree. The "damaslS cheeks" thai
Shakespeare was so fond OF describing
now cost 81 a box, an increase OF 100
per cent, and viii rise In the near
future, IL is said. The golden curls"
that Oliver Wendell Holmes made
celebrated in verse now cost some.
Lhing-anywhere from S15 to $40, 80
be specific. A treatment OF two Fad
half hours iS necessary. after which
the curls will remain. rain OF shine,
for six months. But after the eXplra-
ton Of this period the treatment must
be repeated However. AS the mana
ger Of one beauty hop said, it's cheap
a { the price, for no longer is q woman
forced to put her hair IN curl papers
at night and run The risk OF IOosing
her husband.
There was a time when women were
cOntented with a simple shampoo, price
so cents. Now, in order 10 have
"tresses like the morn" which the
poet Milton used to write pages about,
she insists upon having herbs mixed
IN the water 70 give her hair beau
tiful CLINT That raises the bill to
S1.T5.
UPkeeB On Lips Grows. Too.
The young man who has a girl
with those ruby lips" which seem
to have continued IN favor for some
few years now, and who is consider
ing making those lips his for life.
had better stop, look, and listen. The
price OF those ruby lips. red as the
wine from the grape, and all that
sort of thing, has risen in the last
few years from % cents to S2.50 a,
package. OF course, IL is said by
authorities that once on, the color
will remain FOR quite a while. and
win last through eating drinking
and, according to one gentleman who
with characteristic modesty does not
wish to have bis name mentioned,
kissing
That woman who would be, as Ten
nyson enthusiastically put IL, "a god
dess most divinely fair" will find the
C4aABe now 20 Qe e@sJU WneFe lot
meFly II was ST. The process con-
sists OF having a mud pack kept on
the face for about two hours. after
which the skin Is found 70 be two or
three shades whittier, with all the
freckles removed An egg smash ap-
piled 20 the face to tighten up the
muscles and so remove the wrinkles,
has risen in price from $50 TO 50.
Il Hurts, But What OF ThatF
Thos eyebrows. which IN the olden
times we're celebrated in ballads and
rOndelleE, now are an expensive prop
OsitiOn; that Is, II the owner wishes
to keep them In style. Al present
fashion dictates that they shall arch IN
a thin, pointed line TO accgntuate the
eye lashes. To achieve this it IS
necessary % have part of The eye