Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
Lipstick and Every Other Artificial
Aid to Feminine Beauty Are Here
Given Endorsement by the Sister,
in-Law of the Famous English
Writer c.. K. Chesterton.
Mrs. Cecil Chesterton

I'VE a dog a bad name and hang
Inn. Give quality n wrong name
AMI the same thing happens But
Qualities, like dogs, outlive their
names and emerge in their true
Vanity has had bad time in this respect.
Worse things hare been said of 1t than any
other human attribute Preachers the world
over have shaken their heads and pointed their
fingers in warning and denunciatiOn
And now at last feel the time has come
to show what vanity in its proper sense really
means. It is wonlan's greatest asset and has
done more to help her TO perfection than any
thing else.
Vanity is not the mean ignoble thing it has
been called, it is the strongest factor in
womans composition and win move mountains.
It used to be said in the nursery that a
female child should be satisfied with the fea-
lures God had given her. Fortunately. few
women accepted the teaching.
The majority of women at q very early age
have q clear idea Of how they want to look.
Once they get the picture in their minds they
set about a-hieving it. This Is called vanity.
It is really idealism.
You may have been born with high fore
head, meager eyebrows and eyelaShes and a
bad skin. Are you to remain content with
these? Why should you? You know exactly
how you want to look and you change your
appearance completely with the aid Of powder.
rouge and eyebrow pencil. In doing this you
not only please yourself but other people
THIS is not merely symptom Of today. 1t is
! what women have been doing since the
beginning of time.
Every period has its ideal of feminine beauty.
This ideal changes from age to age but woman
is always able to adapt herself to 1t. She Is
slim or plump has regular features looks
piquant, has luxuriant tresses cloSe-cut
shingles.
In the days of Queen Victoria the fashion
able beauty had tiny waist, an ample bust
and was subject to megrims If you look up
the illustrated papers of the time you will find
that everybody Appropriated to this standard.
What was the reason? Woman decided that
her waist should be small, and 10, it became
small.
Nowadays tire v.ion of beauty is entirely
different 1t doesn't matter. Woman adapts
herself to the ideal She beholds herself boyish
and straight and she becomes
Vanity makes for self-respect. Blessed is
the lipstick," said a church worker to me once.
IA girl who uses lipstick win polish her shoes.
mend her gloves wash her stockings only
wish girls in prison were allowed to use make
up. 1t would restore their self-esteem."
1T used to be said that makeup was immoral.
! This condemned to lifelong obscurity many
q young woman who in other circumstances
would have been good locker.
Makeup today is symbol Of personal dainti
ness 1t is as legitimate as nail polish, as
requisite as smart shoes and silk stockings In
deed, of the reasons why these latter have
become niversally worn is that clumsy
shoes and wooden stockings do not fit in with
nice complexion. deicately tinted mouth and
well marked eyebrows
Moreover it equalizes natural disadvantages
Your plain girl, so called with the help of
vanity can successfully compete with her
pretty sister who the other hand, can no
longer rely native good looks but is
PEELED to cultivate a charm of manner.
But vanity operates in other spheres than
beauty few generations back the ideal of
feminipity was to be protected, sheltered, kept
in ignorance of all the hard facts of life.
Woman had to be shielded from hurtful things.
petted turned into a toy like Nora in IbSens
1.-THE Dolls House"
OF course fundamentally the mid Victorian
woman didn't change; she simply decided 20
assume the ideal then in fashion. It was
sidered becoming to swoon at sign of rough
ness or brutality; to lose consciousness at the
sight of a street accident; to have Mysteries
If the house caught fire. Today it is equally
popular to watch prize fight without turning
q hair-or, If the hair does turn, vanity for
bids it's exhibition.
Where is the little mouselike creature of
those times! Nowadays she is an efficient
business woman. No longer the domestic pet
or colorless housewife she understands stocks
and shares, has keen notion of politics and
discusses the latest problem plays and novels.
And yet, when she comes home from the
ONCE she can at win affect, If she so please,
an almost mfantile dependence on her husband
Vanity insists she shall be independent abroad
and clinging at home. Vanity enables her 70
be all things and take all shapes and sizes
Nov. Cleopatra like Mary Queen q Scots.