Beauty, the death of whose founder, Mrs, Mary Meta Stack, is announced elsewhere, engaged in a campaign against. cosmetics purely as an Infeldental reinforcement of its general programme. Perhaps that is why it [apparently never endeavoured to Invoke statutory authority for suppression of the lipstick. There is on Fecord the Act passed by Parliament in 1700 "for protection of men in the country." That Act provided That all women of, whatever age, amic profession, or degree, whether inet, maid, oF widow, that shall from dnd after "auch Act. Impose upon, Seduce, and. betray. nto. matrimony any of "Mls "Majesty's subjects "by means of stents, paints, coemetle Sashes, "artifolal teeth, false halt, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, Tien heeled sheet o7 bolstered "hips shall {ncur the penalty of the law now in force againat witchcraft and ike mis-Gemesnoure and. that marriage. upon conviction shalt stand null and void.
The last trial for witchcraft in Ende and took place in 1712 when Jane Wenham was convicted but not exe ecuted. In Scotland the last trial was in 1722 and execution followed conviction on that occasion. Execs ton took the place of an earlier form fof trial which combined the func~ tions of the fury, judge and hangman by. throwing the accused Into the water and declaring her innocent if the failed to come to the surface again, However that may be, the abandonment of punishment for witgheraft may not necessarily pre~ Clude action against cosmetics under that Act of William TI. Some erud~ Ite lawyer may be prepared to al vise would-be prosecutors on that point. "In these days of depression it rurely helpful ta: show where legal assistance might be required: the defence of possible delinquents should Keep many a struggling barrister in drlets for months to come.
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