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Show Uncommon Sense By John Blake LIPSTICKS LONG AGO RECENT excavations about Ur, which as all cross-word puzzlers know is the Babylonian home of Abraham, have resulted in the discovery dis-covery of what seem to be rouge boxes and lipsticks. The quest of beauty, we thus discover, dis-cover, is older than written history. This gives some semblance of excuse ex-cuse to the modern maiden, who, fancying red lips and pink cheeks will more readily lure masculine admiration admira-tion manufactures them artificially If she doesn't possess them. . j There is no reason to doubt that woman always tried to be pretty, even without the evidences of Ur. Her business was getting a husband, and husbands are singularly able to , look 'through the windows of the fe- male soul and see it in all its worthiness. worthi-ness. What they looked for in Ur, as well as today was a pretty face. ' The soul and the mind that goes with it doesn't so much matter. Pretty faces are not so plentiful in this day and age, and they were probably prob-ably less so in Ur, when girls probably v were not so well fed, and spent too much time at agricultural labor to attend to their beauty. So they had to pretend to be pretty, pret-ty, as many af the plain ones do now. The Ur discoveries seem to make the fussy question of "what are our girl? coming to?" look rather silly. If paint and powder date back thousands thou-sands of years, our girls aren't any worse than girls have been since Abraham's Abra-ham's time. As a matter of fact they are a good deal better for they have added education ed-ucation and intelligence to beauty, and no man can complain that they are dull compuny. which they may have been in the ancient days. As for the paint that they use, they would look funny, in a time when all women use it if they didn't. That is just fashion not as sensible sensi-ble a fashion ns short skirts and bobbed hair and it will probably pass the quicker for that reason. . It will be noticed that country-bred girls, with natural coloring on their cheeks are even more fascinating to 1 men than the artificially-beautified "4 city maidens, and after tTiat there will not be so much sale for cosmetics. In the meantime there is no evidence, evi-dence, whatever, that paint or rouge or bobbed hair, or even a wider knowledge of the facts of life have injured the morality of young women. . They are of the same sort they always al-ways were the vast majority of them clean minded and happy, and they are far better able to take care of themselves them-selves than were their .sisters in Ur, who were glad to be wives, even if many of them had to be the wives of a single husband. (CopyrlRht.) n |