Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-22
GIRL SAYS SHE WORKS
IN HE BEAUTY PARLOR"
decides to Live and Die Spinstcr
After Watching Employer
"Prunc Himself"
OPERATIONS" DISGUST GIRL
Beauty Expert Advises That Women
Change Their Powder PufYs Oftencr
When In the Habit Of Using Them
in Public.
ny BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

| think II was that genial old cynic
Thackery who said any woman given
marry any man she pleased. II must
have been this remark that started
such far-reaching boom in pro-
pinquity.
But apparently propimqni,y or
ncarness-has its exceptions and some
times IL reacts as an active poison to
romance. This, perhaps. is true only
OF the man or woman who has such
unpleasant habits that /, amounts to
q SOURCE. for the sensitive. to have
them about. People who have not yet
discovered that TO preserve any Of
the illusions Of civilization a certain
amount OF rcticcncc must be observed
MY Young correspondent tells me
mat she has taken vow Of perpet-
nal cel!bacy. and that while she is en-
ployed In one Of the government de-
partments in Washington she feels as it
she We're spending her life in Il bar
Der SNIP or a he beauty parlor. Her
letter. which Is entirely too frank and
uneXpurgated TO be Givcn-eXcept in
Dort!ons-would be very valua b @
document 10 young people whose home
training has been neglected This APP
plies To young women az we'll AS young
men.
"a Chicl Amnng We Tnkin' Notes"
The individual who has turned the
lie OF this young war WORKER into
dust ashes and c!nders is one Of those
delni- hemi-sem departnIental chiefs
that make UP roodiy proportion of
Wash!ngton's population.
This gentleman. according to the
'Chiel Taktn Notes" spends a certain
amount Of tim" writing reports. sign
Ing papers and receiving document
from messengers. and the rest Of his
time he devotes to intensive cultiva-
tion Of mis- person.
ishes himself before his Office force,
with the JOY OF department store
gs.esnlo2strator giving an exhibition.
HNsEfei
room, and one day when the gentle
man attempted a minor surgical oper-
alton on his face with pair Of twcez-
ers one nervous young thing went off
her head into Mysteries. sui the chief
goes on with his looping, shipping and
pruning.
You would think" writes the des-
perate girl. that his various imputa-
lions would have some appreciate ef-
crab, he seems TO he able to reproduce
his members by spontaneous growths."
Expects TO Live md Die II Spinstcr.
The girl conAdes IN me that before
cruel fate shut her UP in the chiefs
Official houdoir wiki his various toilet
accessories. she fully expected 10
marry That vague hope Of meeting
Prince Charming played some part in
But that This constant curry!ng in
public" has been her cure" for ro-
nance. and that she expects 20 live
Then she INDUCES In some reflections
regarding the chiefs anteccGcpts. and
she concludes that probably ne was
founding and the uatron neglected
to tell him that "a toothplck need not
be kept in the mouth continually once
the feeding bottle has been abandonci.
am sure this girl felt "a whole 10,
better after She wrote that letter,
and got the chief--and his vanity box
rs 1t were-"on her chest" I, must
have been an immense relief to write
10 an mpcrSonal and unbiased conf
dant like me this daily Irritation that
~ .lF4 L. in a. -,
acid
And perhaps she may meet a man