The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-06-30
Powder And Paint Really Save
Your Face, Expert Declares
By JULIA MCCARTHY,
International News Service SpeciaI
Correspondent.

International News Service Speclai
Correspondent.
New York, June 3O-To grow old
gracefully seems to be the nope OF
many forward-lool1ing young women
today
No gentle collapse after forty for
them. NO lavender and old lace
either. That shade is suitable only
for lingerie. they will tell you pat
ronizingly, and old lace Will gatheF
mold waiting for wearers.
Every self-respecting girl, we hear,
is laying away private STOCK OF ~ ~.
sticks. face lotions, false eyelashes
and assorted powders and roughes
against the day when such thlnss
shall be prohibited. And just let tne
Ivy Einstein of that period try TO
make . raid on the precious stuff!
Telling of Dreadful Things.
oh, now these many moons, my
sisters, they have been teli!ng US "a
the dreadful things that will happen
to our faces If we do not mend our
waysI Our poor pores will be night
down in the gutter, in manner OF
speaking, If we keep up our addlc-
ton to the efarful hablt-forrnlns cos
But tomorrow we dye''-these are
the stirring words hurled at the cen
sor on the evt of battle ana let
gather what dark shkieS Will, we care
not while there is a walked floor I'M
der our feet.
Not so very long ago a reputable
physician and authority on derma-
tology, DR.. William Lathrop Love,
scared us to death by getting right
up at the convention of the Homeo-
pathic Medical Society to say:
'"We practising physicians cannot
fail to view with alarm the increas-
ing use of cosmetics by our young
girls not only of the ge1us fapper'
but others of supposedly good taste.
MANY a girl has already ruined her
complexion by these things, and We
trernble to think of what many of the
growing generation will look hke
when they reach the stage of femi-
ninity called fair, fat and forty. IN
less they adopt the wells of Their
Asiatic sisters they are liable to be
designated as frightful, fat and
fortyt''
F'rightfuI at forty-a nice fate for
the 1apper and her older sister 1et
something tells US that the much-
criticized damsel of today will be so
hardy at forty that it would take
breakdown. much less injure her
weatherproof complexion.
The reticule is dead--with its
smelling salts and camphor. Long live
the vanity easel
Our bold sentiment is echoed-or
perhaps it was inspired-by DIR. Le-
Roy Stoddard. who has rallied to the |
defense of the girl with the powder
filled pores. DR.. Stoddard has be-
come widely known both here and /
CORY, first applying his knowledge to !
restore soldiers mutilated faces and |
later to the practical uses of lifting !
age right out of the old PAGES by a /
simplue operation. There is little !
about face that could escape him.
"Powder was very bad twenty-five |
years ago" he began, but it is all /
right today"
ct mean" he explained. that as a /
matter of morals-not hygiene. The |
woman who used powder long ago |
was talked about, and the one who |
painted her face was OStra cized-
Who Foresaw Vanity Box?
who could have foreseen the van |
.ty box of today" he asked.
The idea that powder clogs the |
pores is an old one that persists.
Surely It is better to have fine |
powder in ones pores that dirt. Cold |
creams, powders and rougeS in mod |
Grafton, Of course, do more to pre-
serve the skin than TO injure it.
There is only one way to clog the
pores in a dangerous way. That is to
varnish the body so as to include ct
least two-Jhirds of it to prevent the
pores from carrying out their throw
ing-of processes. That brings 'tox-
atmia'-death from poisoning
But it would be impossible to kill
or even seriously injure ones self by
vanishing ones face,
$. Its all a question of ethics. Times
change. In hotel rooms now there is
talcum powder for mems use and
sticks for their finger nails
caught using eithsr of those articles