The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-01
Signs of the
Times
nu IILIAN G. PERKINs.

Nv LILLIAN Z, ibhhlNSs
Tho most refreshing thing lately
from a fashionable note standpoint
10 an article In de luxe magazine
,sritten by ~ Mere Man" under
ron,icn. Freedom OF tho Shees."
Most every woman. even the wives
nj husbands have noted a careful
,ostraint--a repression In their hus-
hands I'm commenting In an extrav-
ogan, manner about women. he is
even a diplomat in what he tells
her about herself, for that matter
WHAT man, who has n wife that he
knowa is the homeliest of women,
Int possesses those essentials OF
yvomanhood, priceless beyond rubies.
viii even intimate within her hear
ing that she is homely? Never.
For many reasons he would not do
that. AS TO her favorlte color. her
perfumes and ct cetera, he carefully
stavs on safe ground. SO when n
mere man" writes for basazine.
one naturally listens TO what he
saws especially II one notes that he
tells the truth.
I'VE don't mind make ups" says
This critic OF feminine charms. but
we do mind the way It's used--there
should bo artistic restraint" All,
that word restraint. the safest word
in the vocabulary. But there Is an
ardent desire TO quote "a Mere
Nan %.,., =, . ma, who com ml,,ea
suicide by drinking quart or red
palnt. But the female OF the spe-
cles couldn't XIII herself that way
How many quarts OF red paint does
an up-to-date girl absorb through
her cheeks and lick off her lips in
the course OF year2 There Is
saving that when n man gets mad
he sees red. But with lots OF men
IT'S the other way round-when
they see so much red they get mad
: Seems 10 me It should be done del
icately and daintily; and not in the
came way that man whitewashes a
fence. And why don't they pick
the shade Of red that belongs to
them? They buy rouge like a man
buys candy-by the looks of the
box.
"If you ask how mere man
knows so much about 1t, | answer
that cannot help knowing. Any
man who works among a lot of girls
and rides on street cars can get n
cnmnlete course. free. IN the secrets
OF the toilet see blondes using
Spanish rouge, and dark girls using
ash blonde stuff. | see girls in their
noon hour putting on rouge marked
for evening use only. see thin
girls painted 90 that they look as II
they were dying of consumption
And l see fat girls that look as II
they were about TO go into an
apoplectic fit. Somebody ought
to tell 'em how. Every once IN
while someone rises to remark
about the deceit the modern girl
practices with her face paint. Non
sense! A girl who asks her beau TO
hold her vanity box while she fixes
her face certainly isn't deceiving
him. That's one redeeming feature
about this craze for red. The girls
are honest about It. They certainly
like red; there is nothing green
about them-and very little yellow.
Most OF them turn out to be true
blue. Just the same. wish they
would take few lessons on how to
put II on! Men may get tired OF
dolled-up girls In an office. But
they get more tired of the girls who
are too busnesslike to be sweet and
charming. You know the kind
When you talk about pretty girls
Lhey stare haughtily and tell you
Eey are In the office to work.
fhey are always accommodated. For
the girls who aim to be business
men, and try TO loo's like them
heveF get any thing from men ex-
cept a chance to overwork.
~, "A Mere Man" has much to say OF
the business girl. Take II from n
man; the woman who emphasizes
her femininity under all circum-
stances Is the one who wins out. II
some OF these ambitious ones would
gut reading their daily chapter on
HOW to BE Successful" and read up
on row TO powder so It won't show
tney would be successful! A girl can
take dictaton Just as well II her hair
zone up beautifully as II II Is
plastered down flat. There is no
Ieai attinlty between a sallow skin
ana brains. But these dead-in-earn-
Sst girls think so. They sneer at the
neaateous stenog and get themselves
W 70 look like overworked farmers
ywiVes' It's one grand mistake! SO
,Tns ins as men are men. they will be
Eleasea when they see a woman who