There is nevertheless a large school who raise their voices in ob-Section at the way the popular mind of the United States is being edueated in military matters. Some go 80! far as to say that the spirit militarism and all that goes with it; is infinitely more in evidence in America than ever before. Certain the foreigner who comes to) Americ for a short or long period finds that he has to give much more time und care to the manner which he comports himself—for: from the time he disembarks he: feels that all matters related to law can be felt, America makes you Feel that she is a country in which Taw and order are being used as the da six of communal life, Whereas one likes just to know that Jaw and dev exist—ax is the case in Great! in—but does not like to feel around him in all that he sees. Germany was Tike this before the war. Life then became rather automatic portion of ladies used make-up (a term whose use is now no longer confined to the stage), but there was a sprinkling percentage who graced the dance floor with unbesmeared complexions. But in this country the percentage is almost unnoticed be able, for it appears that all women, abuse—as some will have it—their: faces in this way, and find the most foolish excuses for so doing.
Many of us men are still suficiently old-fashioned to believe that nature unadorned is adorned the most, When will women realize that if they are beautiful nothing can improve their natural beauty. The entirely foolish and quite unneces: sary use of face powder, enamel hair depilatories, skin creams, rice powd tex for staining eye lashes and brows, and various gaudy hues of rouge is positively disgusting on oc-
In this country one finds it on the carly morning train, in the offic, in the restaurant, at' the tea party, at the theatre—everywhere, there is eternal Eve with the powder sprinkler and the paint brush—and then when past the marrigable age she rails at the men for not marry= ing her.
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