Use Your Rouge Artistically, Girls!

1920

Then The Men'll Fall for You, Is Doctor's Advice

Girls who powder and paint have found a champion in Dr. Anna Dwyer of Chicago. She said girls must paint to attract attention and she could see no harm in it.

"But it must done artistically," she said.

Dr. Anna Dwyer is connected with the Chicago health department. She takes issue with Dr. Florence Meredith, the Boston woman who heads the Y. W. C. A. dress reform movement.

"Uncorseted women do not live any longer nor enjoy any better health than the smartly corseted, up-to-date modern city woman," she said.

"As to the facial make-up, which Dr. Florence Meredith claims make it impossible for even a person experienced in the ways of women, like myself, to pick out the good from the bad, all I can say is only the good Lord Himself can tell the good from the bad these days."

And then she defended the girl with paint on her face.

"It is every girl's privilege to paint her face if she likes. Those who do, attract attention, and those who don't, do not, I notice. But it should be done artistically.

"Silk stockings and low shoes are neither objectionable nor dangerous, and the modern corset is quite sensible, to my mind," she said.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 3.