is an individual matter; it has no general rules to be applied to all. There is, however, one very important observation: the face grows more beautiful if it keeps its own character and its original lines. Successful makeup is that which conceals the weak points of the face and shows its good points at their very finest. It is not a wholesale transformation! If a woman has a small mouth, it is ignorance to make it large with rouge, for the face is usually proportioned in its features, and harmony requires leaving the mouth as it is...

And that is the classic makeup which every woman can do in her own home without any fear of exposing herself to society's mockery.

So you do not encourage fancy work in makeup, inquired Bekita Khoury?

Unusual makeup is beautiful... but it is not for every day, nor does it suit every woman. If, however, a woman wishes to follow certain points of "makeup fashion," there is no harm in it, provided it suits her personality and her face. This year, for example, the Eastern style has swept over makeup — the eyebrows are thick, and raised at their outer end toward the temple. This shape gives the face an Eastern cast and an artistic air...

3 — There also appeared in Paris this winter the Etruscan makeup, after antique pieces of Etruscan (pre-Roman) art were put on exhibition: the eye appears lined with kohl, drawn out toward the temple... And on my journey to

Iran and Egypt I noticed that blue kohl is used a great deal in those countries — and it is the latest fashion in Europe this year! It is beautiful, but...

It is fit only for the evening, is that not so? Olga inter-rupted her...

Just so, Holzman continued. For here the sun and the strong light give the face those beautiful lights and shadows that make up for it...

I know that one must do different makeups at different times, said Eva, but that is very difficult... What is the solution?

Of course, Holzman agreed; two kinds of makeup are difficult enough — how then if we wanted to do more than that?! If we fol-lowed artistic principles, makeup should differ in cloudy, rainy weather from what it is in sunny weather, and likewise differ in natural light from what it is under lamplight, and so on! But the important thing in all this is to know that makeup in electric light must be darker than by day. And if the electricity is neon, the rouge and the foundation must tend toward the lemony, so that the desired splendor appears under this light, which changes colors.

Colors this year are moving strongly toward the lemony. It is a shade beautiful on brunettes and blondes alike. (Some will know that Christian Dior this year created a collection of lip colors falling between lemony and pale yellow!)

How should the makeup founda-tion be — lighter or darker than the complexion, Angelique asked her? Foundation cream should be the color of the neck, for the color of the neck shows the true color of the complexion. And if we use a dark foundation with a light powder over it, we obtain a very

good result: this method lends the face radiance and freshness!

And before our circle broke up, I asked her the question that had stirred in my mind ever since Miss Holzman mentioned her travels: which Eastern woman cares most for her beauty?

She said, the Iranian woman — of the upper class, naturally — and she spends most lavishly on her adornment...

4 — As for the Lebanese woman, she knows she is beautiful, and so she does not trouble to add to her beauty...

Here the expert in the art of beauty, "Helena Rubinstein's envoy," consulted her watch and realized that the hour of another engagement had come... The ladies rose briskly, thanking her warmly and bringing the discus-sion to a close — though they would have wished it to run on longer!... For what subject in all the world so delights a woman's ears, and makes all her senses crane toward it, as the subject of her beauty and its adornment?!!