The Archive · 1930

Home Executive

5 Mts. Edison maintains 4 college most disastrous and hair should] Céucation is more essential for the shampooed after a[fitl than the boy. Where the ianent wave gains in favour, and is well justified in} summer months. Loosely waved hair is always more becoming and natural than the tight, close waves which many women demand. Any] wave requires attention and it is foolish to imagine that your cares fare over once you have gone through the agony of getting a permanent. The waves must be watched and an occasional visit made to} the beauty parlour for a reset if} best results are to be maintained.

Perhaps next month you will begin to think you have wooed Old Sol too vigorously and will need a mild bleach before appearing in your new autumn cécolletage. A genjerous use of soothing skin tonic will] Ido much to restore the glow to the kin, And being powder-conscious is about the best word in the} cosmetic calendar. Be sure that your powder matches, and when you have used a bleach or your sun-tan has melted away do a little ox-periment until the shade that suits your new complexion is reached.

Ean de cologne and other scented Viquids add to our sense of wellbeing; scented soaps jars of lovely bath salts and our favourite perfume prove invaluable warm weather friends—v.x, affair. For this reason I am making little short coats to match many of my evening dresses. Along taffeta coat, however, is equally suitable and lovely.

As to colour, my preference tends toward modern shades and rich, colourful tones. I love claret, brid red and yellow for their-warm depth, land I am fascinated by colours which have a "singing" quality.

Let me tell you. Iam proud of my dear Paris. There is something in her very air which helps dress artists to create beautiful clothes appreciated the whole world over. For my own part, I am ambitious Brot the reputation of Cherait should be a reputation for creating "To: family exchequer forces parents to choose between the son and daughter, Mrs. Edison believes it 1s the daughter, whom she calls the guide and anchor of the future generation, who should be sent to college for the boy can more readily find a substitute for college training in the contacts and experiences of the business world.

"Our most important men, men who have accomplished the greatest things, have in almost every stance been able to achieve success because of the loyal support and encouragement of some woman; of their wives or their mothers and their home-environment. We seldom hear of the greatness of many of our most successful women."

Declaring that women, in secking a new freedom, are like children with new toys, Mrs. Edison, herself a home-executive who has made 2 successful career of wifehood, motherhood and home management, blames the present sffuation on a combination of suffrage and the war. In getting the idea of bettering things for themselves by entering the business world, man's world, homes and lives have been turned topsy-tury by women; she believes. She thinks women have lost their prestige in their own sphere, that of home-makers, and have failed to gain its equivalent in the man's sphere, for women still havea long' way to go to achieve a measure suees comparable to that of man.

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