Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-12-15
BEAUTY OF FORM.
AnINr FOR THE LADIES

HINT FOR THE LADIES.
A correspondent. of the New York Tri'
bune, writing from Genoa, says:
Sometimes you may travel all day.
and see nothing but the uglies faces; and
you wonder how nature could have gone
so awry in every instance and then, again,
in another province. you see at every step
the beautiful eye and lash. and flexible
brow, and laughing face of your true ltal
an beauty. In form, the Italians excel
us.-Larger. fuller. they naturally acquire
finer gait and beariug. 1t is astonish>
ing that our ladies should persist in that
ridiculous notion tina! small waist-and,
pernecessitatem, must be-beautiful. Why,
an Italian lady would cry for vexalion if
she possessed such waist as some of our
ladies acquire only by the longest, pain
fullest process. have sought the reason
of this difference, and can see no other
than that the Italians have their glorious
statuary continually before them, and
hence endeavor to assimila:e themselves
to them; whereas our fashionadles have
no models except those French stuffed
figures in the windows of miltiners' shops.
Why, if an artist should presume to make
a statue with the shape that seems to, be
regarded with US as the perfection of har-.
monious proportion, he would laughed
out of the city. 1t is standing objection
against the taste Of our ladies', the world
over, that they will practically assert that
French miIliner understands how they
should be made better than Nature her
self.''
We beg the attention of the fair reader
to the foregoing. Hundreds perish annu>
ally in this country, victims to corsets.
And yet it will be seen that the models of
beauty, as given by the celebrated sculp>
tors, are by the means characterized by
the hour-glass waists, of which so many
of the gen,ler sex Of this country delight
to boast. The truth Is, it is almost i'm
possible for a female to subject herself to
the fashionable system which has SO long
prevailed in the United States, and yet be
healthful. graceful, elastic in figure and in
spirits. She may have thin waist. but
the chances are nine to one that her cheeks
will be bloodless, her movements lahguid,
her frame feeble, and her constitution i'm
paired. The question, then, isis slen-
der waist more important than rosy
cheeks, grace and ease Of movement.
cheerfulness Of spirit, and general health
To suppose that gentlemen prefer these
unnatugaily compressed forms, is great
mistake.-Phil. Enquirer.
We live and learn but we do not live
and remember. We make but little prac-
teal use Of the reasonings, either of OH
ers or ourselves. Our minds vary, bnt
seldom radically improve. Our unwA>
lingness to be warned by the experience
of others is not surprising but that we
should forget or be blind to our own expe-
rience, is most STRANGE. Yet we see this,
and feel it every day.
| Little everyday trials have more iris
ta,ing effect on the temper than great mis-
fortunes, because we do nat think it ne
cessary to exert such energy to bear them.
This is one reason why men are general
ly better or more even-tempered than wo-
men. They are not so much subjected to
the hacking though apparently unimpor-
tant trials Of daily life.