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Show "this business t 6& "1 n OF tffll rirSUSAN THAYER 1'- T TPSTICK AN AFFRONT TO THE STATE! Our freedom to take part in r affairs of our communities . ,e be companions to our chiidr ... to dress as we please and ca5 afford ... to use the beauty-gjv. ing preparations that modern busi" ness has provided ... to be younj and useful far into "middle age" all depend on living in a country whose government believes the in. dividual is more important than the state . . . And that women are individuals as well as men! Grandmother was old at forty. Or if she was unusually vigorous she might be forty-five before she took to sitting by the fireplace and wearing lace caps at home and "bonnets" for church. Today a woman of forty still has a firm hold on life. Some of the glamorous ladies of Hollywood have been making pictures for 20 years. Several of our most popular popu-lar actresses are frankly this old. And everywhere there are young women of forty and more still feeling, and what is more, looking young. Perhaps that Is half the battle. ' Grandmother frizzed her hair with curl papers and used a little rice powder now and tnen. .today's .to-day's woman goes in frankly for permanent waves, for creams and lotions and make-up. The right use of face powder is considered a virtue and lipstick is a badge of courage with which any woman is able to face the world more bravely. brave-ly. Indeed, with the help of diet, exercise and cosmetics, she has gone a long way toward discovering discover-ing the fountain of youth and her life of usefulness has been lengthened length-ened by a decade or more. But across the ocean there are countries where interest in looks is frowned on and make-up is considered con-sidered an affront to the state. Woman's place is definitely in the home and her job is motherhood, or work in field or factory depending de-pending on the demands of the state. So what does it matter how she looks? The men of those countries coun-tries propose to run them, in their own way without feminine' suggestions sugges-tions or advice and each year women wo-men are surrounded by more of the limitations from which we had, with such pains, escaped. A woman in these countries is no longer an individual with freedom of expression and actions. She no longer has an opportunity for higher education nor a professional profession-al career of her own if her bent is that way. The threat of the dictator countries coun-tries is bad enough for men. But for woman it means the end of everything for which she has struggled for hundreds of years. |