My e y o Miladys Milady's Boudoir Still Remains a Mystery By EDITH HINES THE HE privacy of miladys milady's boudoir How much mystery we ha have ve attached to that phrase In this privacy the worlds world's great beauty secrets were kept and if fair ones used artificial means to retain the bloom of youth it was known only to themselves If an unruly eyebrow had to be disciplined until it bec became me a questioning arch or a perpetual interrogation point the task was completed in the boudoir straight thin lips became cupids bows and crows feet magically disappeared in this sanctum Tim Tunes s have changed but the mystery of the boudoir still remains even though all of these beauty aids are now indulged in- in dul ed in quite openly upon the streets and before any convenient con con- mirror leaving it more of a debated question than han ever What is accomplished in the privacy of ones one's boudOIr A Vanishing Beauty One witnesses a slim figure rush forth from a beautiful I home ome hurriedly step into the waiting motor car as James sIlently closes the door and as she is whIrled away to luncheon tea ea or shopping her first act as she settles herself luxuriously into the cushions is to produce a vanity and proceed to makeup make up and arrange her hat and hair A business bustness girl is seen frantically fran fran- y making a last minute dash for a tramcar and if it is not yet in sight as she y waits on the street corner she too produces a vanity and makes tsp up In places of business where customers expect service they are kept waiting for another an- an oth other r hair to be plucked from a recalcitrant eyebrow or the Continued o on p page ge 2 1 oj o I i f. f t J j r cf r r L i r. r A j c jM I Mystery of Miladys Milady's Boudoir i Still Remains a Mystery Continued from page 1 1 already lips take on another coat In the dimly lighted theatre after each act the feminine part of the audience audience audi audi- ence produce from somewhere the inevitable vanity and the making up process which will be wasted on the darkness of the following act is gone through with even to the combing of ones one's hair A Mystery Which Is Not a Mystery Milady Miladys s 's boudoir has joined the ranks of knee joints Shapely ankles which were once so intriguing lose caste when combined with knee joints and so the mysteries of the boudoir When hen a man is kept waiting at the curb as his lady fair lays y on another coat of lipstick rouge and powder before daintily taking his hand to alight from the motor car Ile he is no longer deceived as to rosy cheeks and cherry lips but he is still in the dark as to why she takes hours and hours to make her toilet when she always adds the file finishing touches in public