THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947.
LIPSTICK
It's a bit of a mystery who started
WHEN my wife said: "What shall I tell the child? He's
asking who invented lipstick now,” I answered: "Foll him it was the Egyptians or the Chinese. They invented nearly everything."
But when I got to the office I thought I'd just check it up and got out a book about the ancient Egyptians. They did many curious things, but they don't seem to have thought of lipstick.
They used rouge (which they put on their lips with a brush), eye black, face cream and scented oils, and in the tomb of Tutankhamen they put vases of perfume that kept their smell for 3,000 years.
They also had a lot of concoc- tions unknown to-day. If one girl didn't like another she boiled. a worm in oil and poured the mixture over the other one's head to make her hair fall out.
to
There were only two things to do if you had boiled worms poured over you. One was crush a donkey's tooth in honey and apply the mixture morning
IT'S FUR FINDING OUT
by Bernard Wicksteed
and night, and the other was to ¦ fume called jinko, ‘but none of use an ointment made from the them thought of lipsticks. fat of a lon, a anake, a cat, a crocodile, an ibex and a hippo-, potamus.
Most of this information, by
the way, comes from "The Book of Perfumes," written 81 years How about the Romans?
a man called Eugene ago by They were pretty good at make-Rimmel. He says in his preface
The book said it wasn't known if this Act had ever been rc. pealed, and I think you'll agree; that this raises very serious issues. Half the marriages in
About the law
it
have been ever since I went into a shop in Fifth-avenue, New York, to buy some lipstick to send home.
The shop assistants looked at me as if I was a farm animal that had just walked in.
So I delegated this part of the inquiry to a girl more used to dealing with these people. She tried Elizabeth Arden's, who said they started making lip- sticks about 30 years ago, but didn't invent them.
She tried M. Coty in Paris. He anid he thought they were invented in 1912, but didn't know who did it, though one of his chemists, mamed M. Boude- croix, made the first kiss-proof
model in 1926,
About modesty
the country might be at stakTHEN an unexpected thing
happened.
I came back from lunch and found a woman with a dog named Punch wait- me. She'd come from Goya's, where they'd heard of my inquiry (and she'd brought her dog because he went and everywhere she did).
None of these ingredients are up. especially that well-turned- that to qualify himself for the dropped lipstick for the ing to see
in common use to-day (and if out couple Nero and his wife task he had to devour a pile of you think this is a fatuous re-Poppaca. mark just consider some of the
things that are, such as elvet They used white lead and from cats in Abyssinia, musk chalk as a face cream, Egyptian from deer in Tibet and amber-eye black, a powdered rouge on gris from alck whales).
their lips and cheeks, barley flour and butter
on their
The Babylonians got nearer
to lipstick than the Egyptians, They kept their rouge in hollow reeds and squeezed it out like tooth paste.
pimples, and they cleaned their teeth with pumice stone.
Poppaea was the girl who About Orientals
took 50 asses around with her and bathed in their milk, and THE Chinese put carmine on when she threw a party silver the tips of their tongues and pipes hidden in the walls squirt- used a white face powder called guests with perfume. But meen-fun, the Indians the soles of their feet with she never knew the delights of henna and the Japs had a per- lipstick.
stained
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About a recipe
No, her firm hadn't invented Lin-lipstick either, but a friend of passhers thought she remembered an "Ben-advertisement in 1912 in which them Vinolia's claimed to have done
moment, and, with one of Mr. Poucher's volumes under cach arm, jumped into a taxi and said: "Lincoln's Inn, hurry."
To reach the library at IN
one of the books he devour-coln's Inn you have to ed he found an old French alarming notices saying recipe for making. ladies beauti- chers only," but I ignored ful for ever. You might like to brarian agreed that it was in-
all and pushed right in. The it. have it by you, so I'll quote it: deed a matter which ought to where at last, and I rang up This was really getting some- be looked into immediately.
Vinolla's immediately and said:
"Take a young raven from the nest, feed it on hard eggs for 40 days, kill it and distil with myrtle leaves, tale and
mond oil,"
it
al-
We turned up every Act pass-"Is it true that you invented lip- ed in 1770. There were 114 andstick?
sion of mutiny in America
to
they ranged from the suppres- "Well," they said, "If we did, the construction of a road in it was such a long time ago that After looking through 261 Berkshire, but
no one here remembers." there Was pages of Mr Rimmel without nothing about women's make-
What can be the explanation finding lipsticks even mentioned up.
of all this modesty? Is it be it began to dawn on me that they must be a fairly modern angle. We looked up marriage, dered very nice when they first We tackled it from another cause lipsticks were not consi- Invention, 80 let's go to the women, cosmetics, false teeth, came in and so no one will own London Library and draw "Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps until we both decided that
out high-heeled shoes and hoops up to inventing them? with special reference to Syn- there ever had been such an Act accident in which some unsung it Or was it all the result of an thetics," published in Evo it must have been repealed long chemist made volumes in 1926.
R slip that launched a thousand faces?
ngo.
Sorry, chaps, to disappoint any of you.
This book is by a man called W. A. Poucher, and you could go on quoting from it for ever. Did you know, for instance, that book, "Perfumes, Cosmetics and And now let's go back to our Circumstance!! The people of Britain fought fumed with a mixture contain-on lip salves and rouge sticks, ordinary shag tobacco is per-Soups." There's a whole chapter Land of Hope and Glory! and prayed for Pence and now, ing ten different ingredients in- and the most interesting part of The pomp is but a memory, after making tremendous sacri- but the circumstance a grim fices in order to serve humanity, cluding vanilla, Algerian gern-it is a footnote. reality. In reflective mood (accepting the ine that nium oil, cloves and nutmegs? This says that anything call- pondored over 2 paragraph their late enemics are human) which appeared in the Press find themselves in
And, according to Mr Pou-ed a lip salve is liable to the recently: "John-Sammond of bordering on starvation. Makement in 1770 which said that
state cher, there was an Act of Pariin- patent medicine stamp duty un- less the formula is disclosed, London was fined £15 for feed- no mistake about it: Britain to- "All women who shall im- choose some other name, such and it advises 'manufacturers to ing his hunting dog one meal of day is facing the most critical corned beef a week's ration ordeal in her history. An egg
pose upon, and betray into matrimony, for six people."
as "lipstick." any of his per week! Practically meatless,
Majesty's subjects by Fuciless and even the elements
the use of scents, paints, cos- metic washes, artificial teeth. false hair, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law against witchcraft and the marriage, upon con- viction, shall stand null and void."
It all sounds very fantastic. seeming to conspire against absurd, impossible--but it is a her! very real and grini reality.
are
What the people of Britain have suffered and still suffering is difficult fully to ap preciate at this distance, but that they are facing a crisia of the first magnitude is all too obvious.
ALONE in Europe, way back
AND interwoven with this vein
of thought concerning the world's present-day pattern, is the disquieting feeling that there appears to be more con- cern shown in the matter of re- habilitating our enemies than in securing just and reasonable treatment for our own flesh and
blood.
and
That, so far as I have been tion of the word in any book. able to discover, is the first men-
About inventors BVIOUSLY the next thing
to do was to get in touch with some of the manufacturers, Personally, I am slightly afraid of beauty people, and I always
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London To Be Served By Seven Airports
&
Britain's Ministry of Civil Aviation is drawing up new and greatly enlarged scheme to provide 'London with adequate accommodation for air traße.
Heathrow for both airports to be used to capacity, When Heathrow is fully developed, Northalt may only be used as a diversionary airport.
Croydon.--Now headquarters for
services. These
will continental later be moved to Heathrow and
Seven airports encircling Lon- don are being considered as the "London plan" for handling overseas, Continental and in- ternal regular air services, with the addition of passenger, Northolt. Croydon may be used for freight and taxi services opera-internal services, and will certainly be available for charter operations ted by private charter com- and used for airliner overhauls. panies.
1
Former American Blather
over
The Ministry's airports planning Bovingdon.Former American Air - division, in an attempt to discoverForce station. It was taken the extent of air traffic in the next from the Royal Air Force by the 10
Ministry of Civil Aviation and will to 20 years, has circulated head-questionnaire
among all airline | be made available for diversionary operating companies asking them to traffic. It may possibly be used for estimate their future trafile require-some contluental and charter ments,
vices..
"We were
left with a litter of hables, most of them fractious."
"The new world is in a state of travall, and the Government is in the position of being the midwives woman tradillon-seeking of a new age." America always calls The First
The one bright spot in recent in 1939-40, they defied the first onrush of fanatical aggres. news has been the Australian sion, and galvanised themselves refusal to trade with the cring- into a cohesive and determined ing, double-faced, double-cross- whole which no power could ing Japanese. In purely in- defeat. The world is indebted dividual or personal associa- to them. They gave America ations, it is difficult to imagine a breathing space until the Pearlman willingly shaking the hand Harbour infamy sank all dif-jofa blackguard who had There were 57 of them, and ferences of opinion in the stabbed him in the back and all had owned and driven cars United States and caused that plundered his house. And yet before the year 1900. Their THE
a spirit of combined ages exceeded 4,000 Lady of the American Stage is in great country, to become as some people in united and determined as them- pseudo-piety urge us to encour years, but there is no measure London. Her name is KATHARINE selves, and to rise to untold age the ressurection of those heights in order to join in who are directly responsible for for their enthusiasm." stamping out the vilest form of the plight of the world to-day, aggression over known.
especially the plight of the people of Britain.
ALKATIVE. CORNELL and she is a great actress TAL
Americans have by any standards.
been telling me
about that All the old trophies were there:
character, To coin a cliche, she is lovely to colourful
CHARLES The red flag which Lord WINCHI look at, delightful to know; a model HENRY DAVIS, of Cape Cod! SEA tore Inhalt at the celebmation for the lip-sucked chits who like to breakfast Brighton after
call themselves actresses, And she He is the man who wanted to build u an 80 ft. statue of Chur- Emancipation Run in 1000; the first That's acting
chill on Dover cliffs with a beacon in uniform cap of the original British com-Motor Car Club; and, of course, all the old tales were told and re-fold. and
DUMB-BELLS TO exact by any means
THIS IS THE X-RAY
LABORATORY!
160%
WHAT
FOR
NOW
the
is 48.
DUE Veteran of the party was pocket.
his elgar.
This white-whiskered
cocentric
possible adequate pensation for the loss309
UE in London from. Brooklyn is Is an engineer who has made much IS IT USED suffering of the people of Bri-
Judge SAMUEL S. LEIBOWITZ. more than a million and, at 91, sull sized WILLIAM JOHN tain is not a question of ven-
PEALL He is the greatest criminal lawyer in ❘ enjoys spending it. He is a mem- geance, but merely justice. To from Have, who stands 5ft. lin. He America, and is accounted on both ber of 40 widely varied clubs and deny ourselves the necessities 1s 92 and has just got a new car. aldes of the Atlantic as one of the societies and has an unfalling supply of life in order to succour those
world's greatest defenders.
of curious idens,' Yes, it's the same Billy 'Peall;
From wavering juries in first- who, if ever given a chance, will that master of spot stroke and one degree murder trials he has repeat their infamy, is nothing of the greatest billards amateurs more verdicts of Not Guilty than af all time. His record break of any other counsel, and until 1930 3,304, made 50 years ago, stood had "never lost a case to the electric
WALTER LINDRUM Chime chair"
short of suicidal.
wan
With all the existing waver until ing and uncertainty so evident | along. He still plays; made a break · They call him the “white-hended to-day, it would appear that we of 200 last week.
boy" his hair turned that colour lack lenders of vision and prac- Commander
as the result of a serious illness, MONTAGUE tical common-sense. "he. Land | GRAHAM-WHITE, who glories in romains and the Glory. romains, these old motoring days, Basured
„Britain's ̈¦- võteran motorist No. 1.
but the latter is sadly tarnished me that Billy Pealt is undoubtedly WISE CRACKS by Mr ATTLEE in the light of present-day And that is a very proud title to "off-the-record talk with
during frank, very good-humoured leadership,
hayo..
journalists- recently:
Empire
Last September he startled his you're looking at the next Presi guests with the simple statement: dent of the United States,"
Now he has "the perfect defence against the atomic bomb."
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Once the answers are obtained Blackbushe-Another airport taken the estimated total traflo has to over by the Ministry of Civil be divided among available air, Į Aviation. It will be used mainly us poris according to the aircraft an experimental station for for dis- handling capacity of each airport, persal techniques and for diversion
In bad weather. Decause of almost continual bad or
FairiopThis airport, was foggy weather in the London arcu,
began estimates have to be made of the by the City of London before the maximum aircraft handling capacity war and used by the R.AF. Con-" during good weather and the mini-siderable work is needed to develop mum during bad.
it properly. It is being considered for continental services,
also .bo
Mastering Weather A weather chart will drawn up and reporta made on the extent to which bad weather condi- tions can be counteracted by the improvement of radar and radio equipment and the technique of air traffic control.
When, the complicated series of estimates are co-ordinated the Civil Aviation Minister (Lord Nathan) will make a statement of Govern- ment policy on airports.
for Gatwick, but I may possibly bo Gatwick The futore.ia uncertain
used for charter services,
Centenary Stamp Exhibition
In view
of the work)-wide im- The Londont scheme is to form
portance of the Centenary · Inter- nucleus for a broader national plan. held in New York during next May, national: Philatelic Exhibition, to be
sideration for London are:
The seven airports under con- the British Post Office will lend the
Heathrow Airport No. 1 for Bri- British Government Stamp Exhibit tain. It will not be restricted to to the organisers. overeens trafic, but facilities will be provided for sume continental and, the
"This containg the original die of famous Penny Black” stamp
during the reign, of Queen Victoria, Northolt-Future depends upon and many specimens of early typeń the development of air trafle control and denominations of postage stampo technique, an Northolt is too close to issued in Britain,
CARD on the counter of a Glyn possibly, some Internal traffic. as which was first issued on May 1840
Neath grocer suggests:
"You register at birth, you regla. ter at death, Why not register here to live?"
well.
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