New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-06

choicest gems 1t is beautifully printed, and must
become what it's predecessor for long time con-
tinued 10 be, the most popular fashionable journal
of the day.
Arc YOU beautiful, madam
/ think see slight inclination of the head.
Quite between ourselves, then-qu.te out OF
hearing Of any plain person of your own sex-l
wish to say word to you about your beauty
what it is worth, here and elsewhere-how adora-
BILE it is, and in some places how more than others
and how your leaf of life you being born IN
America)
''by some DER ha,ty angel was misplaced
In Fates eternal volume"
First listen to our confession Of faith. Porco-
lain and crockery, champaign and cider, sunshine
and candle-ght, silver cup and tin dipper, are not
of more different quality, TO our apprehension, than
people beautiful and people PLAIN. We do not
believe that they are to have the same destiny
We believe that the PLAIN and the beautiful are
10 be reproduced in their own likeness in another
world, and that beauty must be paramount alike
among men and angels. We believe every thing
should be given to beauty that beauty wants
every thing forgiven if beauty err. We have no
limit to our service of beauty-no imaginable
bound to our devotion. We are secondnry-sub-
iect-born thralI to beauty. And in this faith we
shall die.
But beauty in America is very differently
priced commodity from beauty in England. Let
us keep clear of making an essay OF this, and
show what we mean by parallel examples Take
two beautiful girls, of the same comparative sta
ton Miss Smith, of London, daughter OF d
master-in- chancery, and Miss Brown, of New
York, daughter OF IL tcrcarpenter-ior the
former gentleman is about as far below an earl
as the latter is below any arlstocrat oil New ork,
supposed or acknowledged
Miss Brown, of the Bowcry, is a lovely crca-
ture. She excitcs curiosity in Broadway. She
binders devotion, right and left, when she turns
round in church. In the best society of New
York there is not a pretticr girl, and nature has
made her elegant in her manners, and education
has done as much for her as was at all necessary.
Her father delights in her beauty and her mother
is very proud of her, and she carries her heart IN
her bosom, to do what she pleaSes with it--but
neither Mr.. Brown, nor Mrs. Brown, nor Miss
Brown ever dream that her beauty will advance
their condition in life one peg. They love her Tor
,t-shc controls the family by !t--she exercises
influence as belle in their own circle OF acquaut
ance-but that is all. She lives very gay and
pleasant life, hears of balls in more fashionable
parts of the town. without dreaming that for her
beauty, she should be thcre--and continues "a
Bowerv belle till she marrieS Bowery BEAU
And beauty, once married, IN that class of our
country, is like pair of shoes once sold--ncver
inquired for again.
Miss Smith, of London, is a superb girl Her
father was of dark complexion and her mother a
blonde; and Jet and pearl have done their daintl
est In her dark eyes and radiant skin. AT twelve
she is considered beauty past accident. Her
sisters, who were either all father or all mo-
Their, grimy dark, or parsnip blonde, married
off to such husbands would undertake them.
But for the Youngest there is different destiny
for she is "a beauty. The father wishes for ad-
vanccment and Il title. The mother wishes 10
figure in high life before she dies And Miss
Smith, young as she Is, is taught the difference
between a PLAIN young lord III a cab and hand
some lawyers clerk with green bag. Beauty
we'll managed, may be made to open every door
in England. Masters--the best of masters for
Miss Smith. More money is spent in finishing
her than was given 10 ali her sisters for dowries
She is permitted TO torm few acquaintance of her
own sex, none of the Other. And when Mics
Smith is sixteen, Mrs. $aGE g,<Nes her first
strong push at Lady Frpperv, cor Mr. Smith has
put Lord Frippery under obligations which make
it inevitable tf-a> he FIRST favor asked should b.
sranted,l and out comes Miss Smith, chaperoned
by Lady Euppcry al mixed subscripuon-bal. II
is for the benefit OF the Poles, and the Liberal
bil,v are all there; and all the heauX OF ST James
street. OF course, Tor tncy INC 10 see what novelty
viii turn up in such places. One hour after the
ball opens, Miss Smiths beauty has been pro-
nounced upon by half the noble ewes of London
and Lady Frippery is assailed for introductions.
The beauty turns out high-bred. Lord Georsc
and Lord Frederick torment their Right Honor
able mammss into calling on Mrs. Smith, and
having the beauty at their next bali; and so
climbs Miss Smith to stratum OF society unat.
tainablc by her fsthe7' law or her mothers wealth.
or any thing IN the world but beauty. She is
carefully watched keeps herself chary, and BY
and.by chooses between Lord Frederick and Lori
George, and elevates her whole family by an ALI
ance with the peerage-tor in England there is
no nassallianee, If the lady descended TO, be Of
grea, beaats, as well as virtuous, modest and wei
educated.
But-as we would show by these examples
personal beauty is uderyalaed N America At
least, tits less valued than in England and older
countries An eminent English artist, recently
returned home, expressed his surprise that he had
80 few beauties among his sitters. The motive
to have miniature DONE" said he, seems. N
America, to be affection In England i, is pride.
Most of my sitteEs," (and he had a great many at
u very high price, shave been old people or In
Yaids, OF persons going away; and though they