American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-02

. FACTS FOR THE CuRIous-FEMALE BEAUTY
The following curious facts respecting female
beauty in the various countries of the world
are interesting. They show how the standard
OF beauty varies in different countries, and how
beauty ITSELF though depending upon general
laws, as certain as those which govern the uni
verse, is, without any adventitious aid, appre-
ciated only in proportion as civilization ad-
yances, and taste improves with intellectual
cultivation
g The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers and
toes red, their eyebrows black, and their lips
blue. In Persia, they paint black streak
around the eyes, and ornament their faces with
various. figures. The Japanese women gild
their teeth, and those of the Indies paint them
red. The pearl of the teeth must be dyed black
to make them beautiful in Guzurat. The Hot
tentot women paint the entire body in compart-
ments OF red and black. In Greenland the wo-
men color their faces with blue and yellow, and
they frequently tattoo their bodies by saturat-
ing thread in SCOT, inserting them beneath the
skin, and then drawing them through
1" Hindoo females, when they wish to appear
particularly lovely smear themselves with a
mixture OF saffron, tumeric and grease. In
nearly all the islands Of the Pacific and Indian
oceans, the women, as well as the men, tattoo
great variety of figures on the face the lips,
tongue, and the whole body. In New Holland,
they cut themselves with Shells and by keeping
the wounds a long time form deep scars in the
flesh, which they deem highly ornamental And
another singular addition is made to their beauty
by taking of, in infancy, the little finger of the
left hand, at the second joint. In ancient Per-
sla, an aquiline nose was often thought worthy
OF the crown; but the Sumatran mother care
fully tiattened the nose of her daughter Among
some OF the savage tribes of Oregon, and also in
Sumatra and Arracan, continual pressure is ap-
Piled to the skull in order to fatten it, and thus
give new beauty The modern Persians have
a strong aversion to red hair the Turks, on
the contrary, are warm admirers of it. In China
small round eyes are liked; and the girls are con-
tinually plucking their eyebrows, that they may
be thin and long. But the great beauty of Chi
neselady is in her feet, which, in childhood, are SO
compressed by bandages as effectually to pre-
vent any further increase in size. The four
smaller toes are turned under the foot, to the
sole of which they firmly adhere and the poor
girl not only endures much pain, but becomes
a cripple for life. Another mark Of beauty con
sists in hnger-nails SO long that castings of BAN
boo are necessary to preserve them from injury
An African beauty must have small eyes, thicl
| lips, large, fiat nose, and skin beautiful,
| black In New Guinea the nose is perforated
and large piece of wood or bone inserted On
the northwest coast of America, an incisior
more than two inches in length is made in tn,
! lower lip, and then filled with a wooden plug
| In Guiana, the lips are pierced with thorns, th,
| heads being inside the mouth, and the poin
resting on the chin. The Tunisian woman, o
moderate pretensions to beauty, needs slav
under each arm, to support her when she walks
and perfect belle carries flesh enough to loa
4 down camel"