You Have A Beautiful Face (1916 Advertisement)

1916

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But Your Nose?

In this day and age attention to your appearance is an absolute necessity if you expect to make the most out of life. Not only should you wish to appear as attractive as possible, for your own self-satisfaction, which is alone well worth your efforts, but you will find the world in general judging you greatly, if not wholly, by your "looks," therefore it pays to "look your best" at all times.

Permit no one to see you looking otherwise; it will injure your welfare! Upon the impression you constantly make rests the failure or success of your life. Which is to be your ultimate destiny? My new Nose-Shaper, "Trados" (Model 22) corrects now ill-shaped noses without operation, quickly, safely and permanently. Is pleasant and does not interfere with one's daily occupation, being worn at night.

M. Trilety, Face Specialist.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 7.

Note: I doubt if Trilety is still in business, so please save your stamp.


Women and Love

Love is a candle which all women hope to light with a match.

Ye Gods! What'd John L. Have Said to Hair Curling and Brow Arching?

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1920

My dears, you should see that pompadour!

And that isn't half of it. He's having his eyebrows daintily arched, too!

And, to cap it all, his cheeks are adorned with the best grade of milady's rouge carefully handpainted over a field of perfumed pink powder. 'Tis even hinted that for a time he considered wearing a lace-covered corset to accentuate the lines of his form-fitting suit of clothes, but this has later been indignantly denied.

No, Genevieve, your guess is wrong. It isn't Launcelot de Slushe, the hero of "Nine Oceans of Tears" in the movie — it's no less a personage, they say, than Jack Dempsey, heavyweight fistic champion of this universe.

Dempsey won't say whether it's the influence of his recent trial at the movies or the success of his next opponent, Georges Carpentier, the bearcat boulevardier of gay Paree, but —

The erstwhile training camp, 'tis whispered, exudes an odor of lilac toilet water and face powder. Electric curling irons are said to adorn the walls where boxing gloves once hung. Cauliflower-eared attendants no longer take to road work and handball — manicuring and eyebrow-arching is the order of the day now, according to latest reports.

So much did Dempsey admire his first marcel wave at the hands of a Los Angeles society barber that he returned to have his brows arched and has since made it a regular practice, if Los Angeles advices may be believed.

But, ye gods! What would the shades of John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsimmons say if they could return to earth and see a modern fistic champion?

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 10.

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.

Maxims of a Modern Maid — "Understanding Little Pal"

1920

Get Wise — Maxims of a Modern Maid

Marriage, like the department stores, could not get along nowadays without the exchange privileges.

The girl with golden curls and a pink and white complexion is any man's idea of an angel — even is she has a selfish mouth and a small cold blue eye.

How in the world did a "sunkissed summer girl" ever transform herself into a ballroom beauty before the art of make-up reached the present miracle working stage?

Every girl with a grouch can cheer up by reflecting that the sort of man who never makes a woman unhappy never makes her happy either.

No man ever falls in love with his stenographer — he falls in love with the "understanding little pal," he thinks she is.

Now that women have won votes, perhaps an occasional valiant soul may be allowed an idea of her own — even when a man is around.

When you hear a man say that his wife is an angel, see if he isn't a widower.

Girl Kicked Out of School for Powdering Her Nose

1922

SHE STILL POWDERS HER NOSE

Provincial School Board Suspended Girl Bent on an Education.

KNOBEL, Ark., June 6. — Miss Pearl Pugsley, eighteen years old, who was prevented from attending school here because she "powdered her nose," is determined to obtain an education, still persists in using cosmetics, and has matriculated in the normal school course at the agricultural college at Jonesboro, Ark.

The girl says she will enter school and probably continue her course and secure a teacher's certificate so that she may within a few years be at the head of some school in the state. She firmly declares it is nobody's business if a girl desires to powder her face moderately.

The local school board barred Miss Pugsley from school because she violated an order banning cosmetics.

—The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 7, 1922, page 5.