Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1931, Page 85

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—JULY 26, 193i. £ When Blushes Were the Fashion When a little wife back in the ice age, or maybe before that, was discovered sewing on tiny garments she would blush to the roots of her pompadour. And the husband would blush a little, too. It was back in the fiscal year 1906, and Murray had asked Grayce up to prom week, and everything was just dandy till Murray made the mistake of telling Grayce a rough story. Believe it or not, it had “damn” and “hell” in it! Grayce blushed and said she didn't think it a bit funny and she hoped Murray would bear in mind that she did not wish to hear any- thing she could not tell her mother. This stalwart shirtwaist man of the early nineteen hundreds has, all unawares, stumbled upon a copy of “Three Weeks,” and a faint blush, willy nilly, has crept through the manly sunburn. He's thinking, “What if my mother or my Aunt Ida had come upon this book! Gosh!!” V= )/ By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1931, by the- Chicase Tribune Syndicate.) “A gentle blush suffused her maidenly brow and, with a haughty glance at Lord Dorian Ennerdale, Lady Bessie Dusen- berry swept from the room!” Back in the good old days, before the hard-boiled age, when the heroine of the best seller felt insulted her first reaction was a blush—and then she swept from the room. No more, no less. A rose-pink blush has covered this young suitor’s face because, through no fault of his, he has seen a much too gener- ally exposed female ankle. If you had courted a girl around the turn of the century, or maybe a little later, even, you would have been as embarrassed as this young man. A It was a frightful experience 25 or 30 years ago for a bathing beauty to lose the skirt of her bathing costume in the water, as sometimes happened. And maybe she didn't turn a bright lobster red about it! When the old folks of today werc ysung a girl was ex- pected to blush easily, and it was considered especially recherche if at the approach of something in the nature of an indignity she went red and white by turns. This lovely girl went for a bite to eat after the opesa or 3 performance of “The Rogers Brothers in Wall Street” with a man whom she thought was a gentleman. Imagine her maidenly blushes when he tried to put his arm around her waist. “How could you ever respect a girl who would allow such liberties?” said she, and the man was pretty much ashamed of himself. A real lady in the days preceding the present era was wonth[ohhh;lsll %reml wl&enelver shec had to pass a billboard which the “Bon Ton Burlesque Com; e T ork Stars” were frankly depicted. e e e s Wl