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| Cartoon, Fay King 1918 |
by Fay King, San Francisco Examiner, May 20, 1918
In my humble opinion, if there is one branch of the service that we women oughta excell in it’s CAMOUFLAGE.
If I had my way I’d give every woman a job in the camouflage department, and is she’s over forty she’s a master of the art.
Figure it out for yourself. A perfect forty-eight has been looking like a perfect thirty-six for centuries.
Give any woman three days’ notice and a good dressmaker and she can be hippy or hippless, according to fashion’s decree. She can look like Mrs. Vernon Castle or Maxine Elliott or whoever happens to be the most copied at the time, even if she has a face as hilly as San Francisco.
The wife of a small salaried man has long camouflaged as the wife of a steel magnate.
She can make a table full of dishes look like a square meal. Can you imagine what a cinch she’d have making a battleship look like a bucket?
Camouflage is woman’s middle name—why not make it her “bit”?
SURELY her experience at keeping Willie looking like a half-fare is proof enough of her success.
A lip stick and a powder puff have won many a husband for a clever woman. She could certainly win a war with a barrel of paint and a ton of powder.
She’s been painting red crawfish so long on platters and buttercups on butter dishes, she’d not have the slightest difficulty in designing storm clouds on ship masts, waves on battle-boats and daisies on the nose of a cannon.
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