upholding school board regulation prohibiting use of cosmetics by pupils
How later courts described this case
- upholding school board regulation prohibiting use of cosmetics by pupils
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Hart, J., (dissenting). Miss Pearl Pugsley was 18 years old on the 15th of August, 1922. I think that a rule forbidding a girl pupil of her age from putting talcum powder on her face is so far unreasonable and beyond the exercise of discretion that the court should say that the board of directors acted without authority in making and enforcing it. “Useless laws diminish the authority of necessary ones.” The tone of the majority opinion exemplifies the wisdom of this old proverb.