Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-17 | Page 8 | We, the Women

I We the Women Lipstick Me Means ns Courage By RUTH RUT l Of f all the nerve A magistrate tells ells a woman on relie that she has no business having on lipstick and fingernail polish that the money spent pent on them should be used for forler her ler children And the magistrate is a woman Somehow that sounds even more smug mug than the fight led by a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York housewife to take the vote away from people in relief Lipstick and nail polish have become become be- be come ome symbols to women They give five us courage help us to hold up our heads among women to meet men with assurance They are badges of femininity and desirability desira- desira And if any women in the country need such symbols they are the unfortunate women whose families are re on relief the relief the women who have hurt lurt pride who have only the barest necessities for living the thenes ones nes who cant can't afford pretty underwear underwear under- under wear vear and smart dresses And what about those women's families A mother who even through depression and r relief lief manages manages manges man man- ages to keep her lips and nails bright right and end gay as other women's certainly would be a happier influence influence ence nce than the woman whose Unpainted unpainted un- un painted lips and unpolished nails cried ried out the drabness of poverty All this is no exaggeration Women Wom- Wom en n need their vanities They need t to o feel that they are attractive That their families are proud of them hem Many an old time family doctor urged a complaining woman to spend pend some money on clothes to take ake a a. trip to fix up the living room instead oom instead of prescribing a bottled bot- bot tIed led tonic And here we are in an age that pretends to know something about psychology trying to take the symbols sym sym- bols of pride away from the people who most need them It is too bad such demands are coming from women If they were from rom men we women could excuse It t by saying No man can c'an possibly possibly pos- pos sibly know how much courage fresh lipstick can give a woman But we ought to know that lipstick lipstick lipstick lip lip- stick Is whistling to women