The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 13

i The High Cost of Being Beautiful in Brooklyn i) District Attorney Lewis, Champion of Beauty in Distress, Is on the Trail of the Profiteers in Paint, Powder and Pulchritude, Believes “Every Woman Has the Right to Make Herself as Beau- , tiful as She Can,” but Has Some Qualifying ! Opinions as Herein Set Forth. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1918, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World), HE high cost of living is graying the hair of Mra. John Jones, Then, when the poor lady wants it—ob, no! Not dyed—merely “restored to its natural color’—a brand new spectre comes to heunt her . dreams. It is the high cost of beauty, the soaring ecalo of prices for such ; necessities of feminine existence as the aforesaid “res- toration,” the permanent wave, the dainty manicure, the youth-preserving massage. A Brooklyn woman has tracked to its lair this new manifestAtion of painful profiteering, and if beauty eu}- ture comes high in Brooklyn, what must be its altitude in extravagant Manhattan? The would-be beauty of Brooklyn has asked District Attorney Henry FE. Lewis of that borough to “probe” the secrets of the beauty parlor—and its profits. “Beautity- ing Is a necossity of life,” snaps this aggrieved siren, “and the exorbitant, outrageous prices charged by beauty re Bhould be investigated in con- ection with the high cost of living be” “I shall look into it” the gallant young District Attorney assured me when I asked him if he would heed this truly pathetic plea, “T shall in- vestigate and find out whether beauty parlors are charging exces- sively. If they are, it is a matter for the Federal Congress.” “Then you believe,” 1 said hope- fully, “that @ beauty parlor is a ne- eessity and not a luxury?” “I believe,” he replied emilingly, fibat every woman bas the right to rake herself as beautiful as she can. And I never saw so many beautiful Women anywhere as in Brooklyn and Manhattan, theggh whether they fm to beauty parlors or are just naturally pretty is none of my busi- nes. I might add I love tne ladies, bit I hall have to make that the shguar case, becauso I'm married.” “Then you believe,” [ pursued tho Yrio with increasing enthusiasm, “n rouge and lip sticks and”—— “I believe in anything that will orn or beautify, but there is an art ® this paint and powder business, I Irefer natural beauty, but if girl is wale and delicate and works in an fice and can't get this flush of out- oor air I believe she has a perfect! ght to ‘touch up’ a bit in order to| bok fresh and in the ‘pink of health.’| But by ‘touching up’ I mean a gentle jouch and not a case of absolute! daubing and plastering so thick that you could cut it off with a pocket imife. There is a happy medium be-| tween a healthy glow and a false| “Then the real beauty Hooverizes | stock in her vanity box,” I “Exactly! The Indians painted, but | they didn't know how to do it grace- tally. Some of the girls who overdo is paint and powder business would well to go to an art school and! tke a few lessons in painting!” | “Not to the school of design!” I} wied, “they are designing enough al-| peady.” “Nor to the school of Impression,” mapped Mr. Lewis, “they have that) down prétty well, too, Just a general @t course, a course of retouching mces instead of photographs would 4, “The Greeks and Romans, men as| yell as women, considered beauty a| jecessity of life and were much more #laborate in their methods of attain- | ng it than is the modern New York | woman, Baths tn camel's milk and; derfurhed ointments trom the Kast j gust have been quite as expensive 19 some of the things wo find at the pewutifying establishments,” “If you are not careful,” I warned, you will have proved that after all beauty parlors are a necessity.” “Well, J certainly won't say 60 out | nnd out," laughed Mr. Lewis, “and BACKLESS ‘EVE- NING GOWN with NEW FEATHER TRIM: | oc MING AND BEAD |) C22". SHOULDER STRAPS, Fatt 1a certainly up to every men or Sprucing Up the Flivver woman to look the very best they can, OW about your motor oar? Of somewhat during the war, It} ho matter what sort of antics the; have to perform to become so, ‘Tak the aye of the young wife who lives| was unpatriotic to use labor or paint acroys the street or ecross the hall jon your car at 4 time when American trom sone very beautiful young | industry was working at top speed to woman, do you think she would be| produce the material necessery for wise to go about ip run over slippers, |the winning of the war. with unshampooed hair, unmani-| But the war is over, Labor is no cured fingers and a wsaliow, unin-|longer scarce. In fact, there are storesting complexion?” 10,000 soldiers being dismissed every Most decidedly NO." day from the service, and these men “Well, I should say sho wouldn’ will have rather a difficult time of chuckled the District Attorney, “and jit until the industries of the country while I'm not saying her busband|can reinstate them into civilian jobs. would look longingly at the very|Now is the time to spruce fip that beautiful young ladies across the| motor car, to put that necessary coat sireet or hall, I know from a man's |of paint on and to overhaul it gen- point of view that he would much |erelly, You will be doing a patriotic rather bave her take an occasional| service to the country in getting @ trip to a beauty parlor or @ dip into, Soldier or two to do this work for her own vanity’ box you, Col, Arthur Woods, Assistant “[. shall look into this ‘matter of|to the Secretary of War, recommends overcharging in beauty parlors,” he|the employment of ox-service men repented ba spe. oie for such reconstruction work, ‘Bo there 4s that much of reassur- | °°, peel ' fancé for those of us hit by the high| There 18 no more need for emery out of being beautiful, Meanwhile—|sency economy, Mor repairs ad jan't it worth it? to the life of things, Paint adds Lis. { FLAMINGO RED NING GOWN AND CHIFFON DRAPERY OVER iy RHOTOGRASHS | Y JOEL FEDER to the body of the car. Your car will go quicker, will smoother, and wear on it will be paints, machine parts, cost more than used to a few years ago. they will save more than their value in their service to the car, Don't walt for materials to come Rather is the contrary to be expected, wait a little too long, you will have n extra cout of paint, and will wear out ERSTANDING, ie Chen LLY, | elevator man tak- ing a day off,” Kangas City Jour. What Milady Will Wear This Winter As Decreed by Fifth Avenue EVEN A SUIT FOR NEXT SPRING SHOWN IN THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ADVANCE MODELS EXHIBITED AT NEW YORK’S FASHION SHOW BLACK CHIFFON VELVET ORESS TRIMMED WITH SHIRRED BANDS OF WHITE RIB- NEW HIGH COL- LAR AND FULL divinity that shapes our emds, rough-haw them as we may. What manicurists do to you in the way of operating on your mitts without the ald of an an. aesthetio—that 49 called man! curing. It is an intricate game, requiring a deft touch, a sootb- ing line of talk and a heart that 1s absolutely cold to all suffer ing. No matter how much the manicurist may regret the pain she is causing, she must not show any sympathy or she would be barred from the manicurist union Mantcuring {4 done with a lot of implements, all reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition. Among the necessary contrivances are the following: A Cutlele Slasb er, a Gouger, a Rough File, a Kougher File and a Super Rough- er File; Sandpaper to rub on the raw, quivering places, pumice stone to finish what the sand paper leaves undone and a bow! of water to wash away the torn meat and the tell-tale blood- stains, Not all manicuring ts as deadly as this; some 1s deaditer, After the manicurist hag fine ished mangling your fingers, she hands them back to you with a slight squeeze. You then ask her out to dinner, She declines four TAPER Se CMD Ignorant Essays By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Eyeuing Werld) MANIC MANICURIST 1s, tn the words of Shakspeare, the SUIT FOR NEXT SPRING OF BLACK AND WHITE CHECKED SKATRAP, SHOWING NEW PUNCHED-IN WAIST AND FULL - SKIRTED You press a second invitation upon her, If you are a 60 phisticated manteuree, not ask her the third time, for then they always accept Manicurists are named Gladys, Holen or Hazel, and have enorm Many a man has Bone over the hills to the poor: house trying to satiate, surfeit or slake the insatiable maw of some ous appetitios, Manicurists usually have ‘They originated the peek-a-boo waists, which are very great deal to do with the popu larity of manicuring. {sts also have wavy halr, and if you wonder what the wild, wild waves are saying, you oan bet they are talking about the good with thirteen.” Person quoted above. to be one of those common paradoxes cold-blooded world to the romantic, |Judus, who was the first to goblin tenanted agés home at Marcel’s, tious, yet though y on the thirteenth with our fingers crossed, how many of vs are there who will start an important business arrangement on that day, or who do not find it expedient to alter} Plants think | Scotland IDEAL ATTAINED, ambitions ever re- arrangements there will be thirteen at table? It may be because of the absolute unequivocal penalty that this super-| With the National Institute as a| Using # tungsten lamp stition above all others has survived |#%, the Panama Assembly is con sentimentalist, "When my tnother DME TON weal e into this unsuperstitious age, One of |‘cinarican ty the thirteen is doomed to die and no~ City, ‘ OW comes the very latest strike-weary! “Let the mothers strike!” problem. “The So would I. twelvo to sixteen bours out of the How It Started — %y,Hermine|cr act be muinae-rer shay “ 3” Neustadtl Lo try the experiment, superuti-| The unpopularity of “thirtesn” tions, but f take no Uberties | Started with the Last Supper at which Christ and bis disciples num- This inconsistency ix not peculiar to|bered thirteen, The unplication we It seoms [all know, The reason why the rat to rise from the , 0 tle: the aera ee Mune Hs actors, marine workers, painters dm practical,|be the one to die act hat everybody alse? a " righ tin, De the|the Supper ‘Table, very ove after-|_ While we are signting alk SaeaaaS Wards ged himsetl, We are emphatically not supersti- PEE AIS gE aan we may not walk RANOOM FACTS, The populauion of Japan now Is ine creasing at,an annual rate of about 800,000, while a fow years ago it was ttle more than 500,000, weden that make stee sald to ateel, by rons. r sidering the establishment of a Pan: University at published communication on the next-to-insoluble modern mother, wife and bh "this new * ing delegate” points out, “are now almost and I wonder, a it's the fashion to strike, mothers’ strike wouldn't be a good thing. If ti any harder working or worked person on the the globe than the mother, wife and to-day I would like to see her.” of luxurious ease compared with the dally performance, to be thousands of small American homes, of one woman trying to be laundress, bousemaid, nurse, dressmaker and domestic economist fet body is sufciently interested im do- llivering posterity from iw tentnoles been established In] pioited occupation than “it al to the best erucible FRIDAY, AUGUS , While Everybody’s, Strikin: _ What About Mother? ~ SHE NEVER “WALKS QUT,” BUT— Puts in a 16-Hour Working Day; Works Overtime Without Extra Pay; Draws the Lowest of Living Wages; Holds Down a Dozen Jobs in One; ; Never Has Vacations Free From Duty. \ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall : Copyright, 1918, ty The Press Publishing On (The New Tork Bwiting Worldly strike call—with New York Drociaims a tired woman, in & questions, prob! anxieties Blondin on bis tighvrope was a oe twenty-four, Yet there never Rept & mothers’ strike, Ui : ; conditions of labor, unilmited over time, no vacations and the fi, of living wages—all these occillibe | tional hardships nevor will “call out” the mothers from American homed? why? by Dloyens both huve forgotten, it recent labor apheavals—that the Rocent public Is the chief from every strike. And the “innocent public”. is composed” thetr little ehildren, Nobody tn the world, I suppose, such @ long working Gay as mother of two or three small in @ servantiess home supported . [small income, Sho must be up & @ o'clock, at the latest, Uf #13 ts com the onsuing day which she may I her own, Besides the routine” housework and marketing ¢ the bathing, the dremsing, thu ing of food, the euperviaton uf end outings, the answering of ini erable questions, the andier- 5 and making of smal! garments, all the trifiion detatls of caring for the 4 helpless objects on earth—immature — human beings. ‘The mother of then, — assuming sbe is without assi) is lucky ff she can turn out the. at 10 P.M, lucky tf she has hours of mierrupted sleep. leaves her sizteep-hour working — day. ras Suppose mother utruck for whale” have been told om the highest . thority iq @ right of labor fF recognized by socisty—the eight! e a She might wake @ little later,em the first day of the “home tie-up” ‘ut Instead of rejoloing over her un~ aceustomed isisure do you know what would be the first thought of that’ apineless, inconsistent female? © would wonder, with dering on shear terror, it baby woul have colic because she had i warmed the milk for his bottle, © A)l through the first day of atrike—if It lasted @ day, wi wouldn't—she would be about the croupy congh Warren acquire since she was not there ton him to wear bie rubbers; who would hear Sidney’s Latin verbei about the probable absence of he Proper number of calories from @ | luneh not planned by mother, Po One industry is forever sate labor disturbances, That most Joving and self-forgetful laborer, ‘ American mother, never will il her rights by means of the strike Sale lot and the walk-out, of ‘The aynic may potnt out that; \ter obvious reasons, the American and mother would not risk the f duction of seab or substitute labor into bar home, ae How could the ccab pas the. af ficient picketing which a» baer untou could do as well as aby No strike would ever be so casily won” not even make @ fight. There is-al- ways that little “innocent publis™ 16, 7 consider, : Aro we, therefore, to go on advantage of what ia and mi main an unorganized indu group of womyn too tender- and great-souled te enforce thei mands by means of the brandished by street ear wrongs of Amertcan fathers, 1 they might consider giving to can mothers such elementary as 4 fair working day, a On turn not limited t board and ¢ an annual vacation and at afternoon off a week, ‘Then hod would be a somewhat |} present, alliance RIVAL TO X RAY. % fiter that passes only the red rm a gt tigbt box, a vented! _ pare.