Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-23 | Page 17 | Cover up Mirrors to Stop Girls Who Use Too Much Rouge

COVER UP MIRRORS TO STOP GIRLS WHO USE TOO MUCH ROUGE (U International Vv. Service.) ' iAKLAND, Cal. The mirrors at iTech high school as looking glasses are good wall covering. I Xo longer Is It possible for the i pretty miss to stop in front of them land dab a bit of powder on the shiny i jn.i mi her nose or to give her coiffure coif-fure an extra caress. l-'or i he mirrors are In sack cloth, j And it was MIsa Kuth Wilder, vice prlnclpali who issued the order caus- ' nut the reflecting glasses to be so d raped. i Miss Wilder caused a questionnaire (to be circulated among the teachers In the girls' classes concerning paint, powder, over and under dressing nd the like. When the blanks came back all properly filled out the opinion opin-ion of the teachers seemed to be thut there was Just a trtfle too much attention at-tention to powder, paint and dressing on the part of the several thousand young lady students. Forthwith there uppeared on each mirror a notice that unless tho ovl-denees ovl-denees of tho use of powder, the lip ! stick and the rouge box Were Speedil) I eradicated the mirror would be ta-j ta-j boo. Kvldently tin. girls did not take t the. mandate seriously. They cemtinue-l 'U to cover the shiny spots on their nosei jlnl with powder and to assist nature with lljlH rouge and the lip stick that is, some lUl of them, according to Miss Wilder. I Then came the order draping Uw !$ mirrors. Ufil "it's sure tough," the girls Bald jlllB plaintively. "Now we'll look dowdy fi and everyone will know it but our- nlfa Dut the druplngs still cover the inlr- ffyU rors. UHB oo Th expenses of the American il I commission limine Its two years' work abroad amounted to S 1 . 3 i . -