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True it certainly is that many American women seem to have contributed overmuch to the $1,825,000,000 which go to make up the cosmetic bill, but it is as impossible to prove that to them as it is to prove to the Navy Department that $740,000,000...
Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari made by an Italian woman of the 17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered...
Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle...
The Arabian Nightmare is frankly a "fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters...
Their Rumanian Majesties removed from Bucharest, last week, to Bled, the summer capital of Yugoslavia. There, Queen Marie of Rumania settled down for a visit with her daughter, young Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation...