The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28
Girls Pay Most Dearly in Record Cosmetic Craze

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The smoke is harmful to the skin; 1t eats
into it and dries it up If these girls will
leave their compilations alone when they
get older they will not need 10 descend to
artificial ways of Frightening their faces.
ut is pitiful to see some of these school-
girls. | have girls of Is come to me-ratner
their mothers have brought them-to see
if 1 could improve their skin. One girl,
not over Is, was brought 10 me by her
mother. The parent could not find out what
her daughter using for her complexion.
Although hardly more than a child this
girls face almost ruined. The skin was
habby; it sagged and looked like an old
womans face. The daughter finally ad-
mitted to me that one of her school friends
had told her to use ice on her face. And
secretly she had been applying ice every
day. 1t dried up the skin.
Soap and Water Far Better
Than Creams and Powders
schoolgirls tell each other about creams
and powders and other cosmetics they read
of or hear mentioned, and without knowing
anything of the properties of these materials
the girls buy them and use them They
risk any kind of cream, powder and paint,
with the result that often their skins are
ruined
Soap and water are far better than cos
metics Creams clog the pores and produce
unsightly blackheads. Even powder is dan
gerous to use. / warn women against the
use of such aids When | see these poor
ignorant girls making up in such an eX-
travagant fashion l feel like scolding them
and sending them home to give their faces
good scrubbing with soap and water.
There is nothing better for the skin than
this simple treatment. The skin needs cleans
ing not clogging "A babys delicate skin Is
ceansed with soap and water. Soap cannot
harm the finest skin texture. Yet these
schoolgirls smear their faces with creams
instead of washing them and never give the
pores a chance to breathe. 1t is like stopping
the nose and mouth thus cutting off the
supply of air. You cannot live if you do
that Neither can the skin live If it does
not get a chance to breathe If you do not
give a flower water it dies. If you do not
give the skin water and air it shrives.
Tell these girls to wash their faces well
at night. using a pure soap with water.
When they get up in the morning they will
feel fresh, for the whole body has been able
to breathe properly.
Then tell them to use soap and water
again in the morning and how quickly
they will begin to look rosy and radiant, how
their complexion will improve and reflect the
healthy condition it never able to ac-
quire because of the coating of cosmetics.
And ask them what they will look like when
they are middle aged women if they continue
to use unwholesome and harmful materials"
Nine. Lecare feels strongly about this
that she has frequently taken groups of
schoolgirls and voluntarily advised them i'm
this same way because she wants to help
them What they have told her about the
pots and boxes of beauty aids they have
tried has been pathetic, according to her.
You don't see the fashionable women of
Paris painted you some of them here"
continued this expert. And you never hear
of young girl using creams and powders
Here the fad has reached a shameful and
pitiable stage"
Ethical Side of the Subject
As Viewed by a Clergyman
The ethical side of the question was dis
cussed by the Rev. DR.. John Roach Straton
pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church
DR. Straton had just returned from a trip
to Montreal. where he inveighed against
"devi1ish and immodest dances" and he was
in the right mood TO voice a protest against
the paint and powder fad.
THE use of cosmetics is part of the whole
tendency of the modern age" he said eft
Is ethcally wrong because 1t is practising
a deception. It doesn't fool any one at all.
Men classify women according to the guam
the less esteem the women command.
II do not believe any right minded man
has any regard for woman who has 20
wear her complexion i'm a bureau drawer.
The fashion is harmful because it tends 10
destroy the natural complexion and impair
the health of the skin.
THE way for women 70 have a good com
plexion is to keep themselves healthy, 10 do
a reasonable amount of the worlds work
and 70 cultivate that modesty for which the
American women Of former generations
were famous the world over. And certainly
the respectable women Of to-day ought 10
be very slow to paint their faces. because
the habit in the past has been largely con
fined to women of the underworld
Paint and powder are a part OF tho
whole emphasis on sex appeal to-day. They
think it attracts men. The whole thing has
gone TO absurd extreme / understand in
some of the so-caed fashionable restau-
rants and hotels cigarettes for women are
now sold with red tips, the dear ladies
as they now smoke will not nc embarrassed
by the red paint on their lips coming Off on
the white end Of the cigarette.
what a pitiable lowering of the whole
standards of womanhood the whole thing
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