Judge, 1927-09-17 · page 7 of 36
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# Analysis: "Beauty Hints for the Business Woman" This is not political satire but a practical advice column by Dr. Nell Perelman for working women. The page presents beauty and grooming tips for female office workers, a demographic that had grown significantly (the text references four million "muddy complexioned" business women in the U.S. by 1926). The two photographs demonstrate specific treatments: the upper image shows Miss Olie O'Lahey receiving a "brush treatment," while the lower image illustrates the "Immelman dip exercise" (a gymnastics movement) for reducing eyebrows. The advice includes skincare remedies, posture exercises, and homemade face masks—practical guidance reflecting 1920s concerns about maintaining professional appearance despite demanding office work on "dirty trains" or in dusty environments.
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LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL NUMBER Beauty Hlints for the Business Woman [STON KEATS, when he was editor of | Punch, once remarked |) not without humor that nothing ruins a woman’s pan like — business. Woman’s place, he remarked with striking originality, was in the home. He went on to say that he would like to wet is whistle with some good old- hioned steam beer if it sn’t for this prohibi- tion and although he wasn’t what you might call a spigot- bigot or scofflaw he alway kept a drop in the house for medicinal purposes. The World Almanac reports that there were four million muddy complexions in the United States in 1926 among business women. And remem- ber, this was before the Father of Waters overflowed its banks and deposited a thin coating of gravel, loam and silt every- where, so the figures are prob- ably double that now. dt say more? uppose, for instance, that you are a business woman named Olie O‘Lahey. You have been head over heels in work, answering telephones, iting the water-cooler, inter- wing shipping clerks, and what-not. Suddenly to your dismay handkerchief well in the liquid, and after tying it around your mouth, lie down on the floor pouring the tasty fluid through a. stiff paper cone into your nose. Th will usually re- move whatever starch there is in ! the clothes, and | you can then be- i gin to think about ironing. The ac- tration shows how to apply the brushes, which should always be used with an up- ou find that the O’Lahey beak has unexpectedly mantel and give your imita gone shiny and the skin looks like old cement. What to do? _ to take flight. When you have finished the mixture, crawl For ten cents you can buy two sturdy scrubbing brushes on your hands and knees to your crib and stay there till with pure hog bristles imbedded in the wood. Go to the the alarm goes off. For the busin nearest drug store and buy a small can of ether. Si By Dr. Nev Peretman liable to become entangled in the beard, causing hysteria (the medical term for hot buttered scones). Many business girls affect the fashionable débutante slouch and before long their spines be- gin to resemble the direct over- land route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fi To re- move excessive curvature, I recommend the following: Lie down on a small chair, bending your arms forward until they touch the hips. If you have no hips, touch your toes. Now— keeping your fingers on your hips and toes—turn your body so that your shoulders and knees are in line, and remain in this position for an hour. You can then call in a sailor and he 1 will unravel you. is called a half stitch, and i the appended photograph. In addition, I suggest that you may secure. better results i E with your skin if you make ini < your own face cream. Take a \ . pint of pure heavy cream and i eat it up with the white of an Add a pint of sherry, ice, a mere suggestion of sugar, and = apply internally. Three tum- f 7 blers of the compound will j Olie O’Lahey, the well-known busi- banish any skin worries you | woman, taking the brush treatment. have, and two more will make you ready to climb up on the # ion of startled water-fowl about f woman who goes to j street cars, it is advis- able to wear some sort of a face mask to keep the i skin clean. Several tf { } a her daily labors on dirty trains, or nifty little hom j made masks may 3 be made with very H little effort. (1) Take your little brother's catcher’s mask and cover it with mosquito net- { ting. (2) y punching holes in a frying pan and bending the handle i so that it fits over | the top of the head { you can fashion a ' nobby little mask. (3) This may also be done with a cut | glass bowl. (4) i and-down motion, never side to side, as the bristles are The Immelman dip exerci. originated by two Vassar girls is to join the Ku which reduces the eyebrows. Klux Klan. The simplest way i} 5