Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1913 — Beauty Stations Are Talked About in Milwaukee [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Beauty Stations Are Talked About in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, wis.— it may be necessary to establish municipal beauty stations in Milwaukee before many days if street car crews, policemen and the population of the sterner sex are sincere in. their statements. Of course

they want to be "real mean” or “horrid” about it, but they declare this would be the only means of satisfying the powder puff, which they declare has become almost a public menace. Everything that shines has been used, by the fair sex as mirrors. “I had a woman in an electric brougham stop her car in the middle of the block not long since and congest traffic the entire block,” said Crossing Officer Johnston, at Grand and East. Water streets. "She calmly took a hand mirror out of purse and proceeded to dab herself while autos behind screeched tbelr horns and teamsters sWore softly. But what could you do? Our orders are to be courteous, so I just bad to stand still until that nose was powdered.” A floorwalker in a-Grand avenue store pointed

to a post surrounded by mirrors on each side. “That post,” said he, "to the rallying point of lots of women who scrutinize most carefully every angle ot their face, and others must fairly wedge their way through.”