New Britain herald., 1924-11-29

with whom the Observer has talked, tho board of fire commissioners carry their authority too far when they hne an officer two or more days pay for making an error in reading the tape which indicates the location Of a fire alarm box. The error should not be overlooked, it is true, and an officer should ba reprimanded but 10 take two days pay out of his pocket for making n mistake which anyone Is liable 70 make Is rubbing 1t in with sandp1- per.
 The majority Of New Britain fire men give the hest that's in them 10 their work. They are conscientious and Intelligent, a high class force of real men. Some Of them, no doubt have earned criticism from their su. periors but on the whole they are a hard hitting crowd Of which the city may justly feel proud. If one Of them falls by the wayside, he should not expect to escape censure or penalty in proportion to his fault. But it Is picayune to fine a man for trivial mistake like failure to read the tape properly. It would 1l sufficient to bring the offender De- fore the discipline committee, and impress upon him the displeasure Of the board. It is likely that he would exercise greater caution in the fu- ture and would not be guilty Of q repetition of his error.
 Penalties meted out by the fire board have frequently been incon- sistent. Heavy punishment has re- suited from minor Attractions of the rules while in other cases where of fense has meritod drastic measures, the penalty has been light The board seems to lack a consistent policy in this respect with the result that there have been whispers N favoritism or, to put 1t mildly, ab- sence Of sound judgment,
 According 10 government reports more than 50 million dollars Is spent annually by the women of the United States for cosmetics. Among the discoveries made by arhae- ologists when delving into the buried cities of four thousand and five thousand years ago were rouge boxes. boxes for paint for the eyes and jars containing unguents for the skin.
 The main difference between than and now is that the process Of beautifying is today a more complicated labor, writes Mary Irene Copinger In The Baltimore Sun. There are rougcs and creams for every purpose possible. One firm that specializes In the task of painting our own modern lilies, makes more than so "prepars- tions." This firm is only one of many - the number probably go- ing into the hundreds = whose output may be bought in the mod ern city.
 Of course Venus herself never acknowledged that her complexion came out of a jar. and there is no doubt that if some catty soddesses had met her one day when she was looking unusually fit and re- marked: "My dear. you're pertectyl wonderful, tell me have you dis covered a new rouge or beauty clay?" the Goddess Of Beauty would have fixed her with a stony stare and replied;
 'Why. darling, you know never use anything but a little tale after the bath. Of course lite's hard for q girl who hasn't that sort of complexion, but.
 However, SO lis said, the nymph Oenone, who happened to be a friend Of young Paris, had been around one morning before Venus got her hair out of curl papers She had lot of information about the goddess's beauty secrets, which she turned over to him. As every one knows, Paris passed the information along to Helen of Troy who put them into practice.
 Another report which indicates that Venus was not above articial aids is to the effect that when Phoon, g Lesbian pilot, success fully ferried her 10 Olympus he was given a mysterious package. This package contained a substance that changed his hitherto caaxSe and ugly face 10 something quite beautiful. Tn fact, he was so lovely that Sappho fell in love with him.
 This event indicates that Venus used beauty clay.
 Many articles indicating that the art of beautifying was one followed in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen were found in his tomb and pre- yious 10 this time exploring parties had dug up evidence that when the preacher of old deplored that "all is vanity" he know whereof he spoke.
 More than 60 years ago an ex- ploring party unearthed the toilet ease of a Theban lady four thou sand years dead and gone. In this case were bottles for scented oils and unEuents, red and white paint for her face, black powder, called kohl, made Of antimony which was applied to the eye with brush or wooden bodkin 10 en- nance the brilliancy.