The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-11-11
thursday M0RNING, NOVEMBER II, 1852,


FE;ALs BEAUTY.--The following curl.
Gus facts .s5pscting female beauty in the
yariOus countries OF The world areinterest-
lag. They chow how the standard of beau
" varies IN different countries, and how
beauty itself, though depending upon genef-
al laws, nc certain as those which govern the
universe, iS, without any adVentitous aid,
appreciated only in proportion as civilian
ton advances and taste improves.
"The ladies' OF Arabia stain their fingers
and toes red, their eyebrows black, and
their lips blue. In Persia, they paint a
black streak around the eve, and ornament
their faces with various figures. The Jap
ancse woman gid their teeth, and those Of
the Indies paint them red. The pearl Of tbe
teeth mu;t be dyed black to be beaatifnl in
GWurat. The Hottentot women. paint The
entire body la compartments Of red and
black. In Greenland, the women color their
iacedwith blue and yellow and they frequent
ly tattoo their bodies BY satnratiag thread in
SCOT, inserting them beneath the skin, and
then drawing them through. Hindoo fc-
males, when they wish TO appear particular
/ ly lovely, smear themselves with a mixture
OF saffron, tumeric and grease. In nearly
ali the islands Of the Pacific and Indian
J Oceans, the women, as well as the men, tat
too great variety of figures on the face,
the fps, tongue and the whole body. In
New Holland, they cut themselves with
shells, and, by keeping the wounds long
time, form deep scars in the flesh, which
they deem highly ornamental. And anoth-
er singular addition is made " their beauty
by taking off, in their infancy, the little
finger Of the left hand, at the second Joint
In ancient Persia, an squeline nose was
often thought worthy of the crown; but tn e
Sematran mother carefully fattens the nose
of her daughter. Among some Of the saw
age tribes Of Oregon, and also in Sumatra
and Arrscan, continual pressure is applied
to the skull in order to fiatten it, and thus
give it new beauty. The modern Persians
have strong aversion to red hair; the
Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers
lofit. In China, small round eyes are liked
and the girls are continually plucking their
Eyebrows, that they may be thin and long.
But the great beauty ofa Chinese lady is
in her feet, which in childhood are so CON-
pressed by bandages as effectualy to pre-.
vent any further increase in size. The foul
smaller toes are turned under the foot, tC
the sole ofwhich they firmly adhere; ant
the poor girl not only endures much pain
but becomes a cripple for life. Anothe
mark of beauty consists in finger nails 5
long that casting Of bamboo are necessary t
prevent them from injury. An African
! beauty must have small eyes, thick lips,
: large fiat nose and a skin beautifully black
, In New Guinea, the nose is perforated, anC
a large piece of wood or bone inserted
On the northwest coast of America an in
csion is made in the lower lip and then fill
ed with wooden plug. In Guinea the lip
are pierced with thorus, the heads being in
side the mouth, and the points resisting OF
the chin. The Tunisian women Of modern
prete nsions to beauty, needs a slave unde
) each arm, TO support her while she walks
and perfect belle carries flesh enough L
load down camel.
, CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS. "A late number G
the Christian Enquirer, published in tn
city OF New York, contains details of som
very singular experiments. The statemeE
of the editor is clear, and he seems to be el
: ttrely satisfied in regard to the existence {
the facts detailed. The matter is worthy {
attention:
"a friend told us, the other day, of yer
! curious experiment, which led US to try 9th
: ,ers equally curious with the same success
! His experiment was this: Take a gold rnl
and suspend it by thread about half var
long; then hold it by the thumb and fingt
: of the right hand over the palm OF the lie
Y hand, SO that the ring may swing freely as
a pendulum; it will oscillate TO and fro in III
direction of the arm with increasing fore,
Then let another person form connectiU
Is between the thumb and forefnger of the o
erator's left hand by his own thumb al
finger; the motion of the ring will chan
4 from a straight line to n circle, at once, a
rs on the withdrawal of the connection it W
o return to a straight line; and on touchil
I, the operators left shoulder with the han
the motion will cease, and the ring be at res
awe tried the experiment successfully, al
- found that it would succeed equally with
e key instead ola ring, or with any body
o proper size similarly suspended, whether
metal, or glass, or wood. We found, ais
> that if suspended over the knees, the pend
n lum would swing from knee to knee, and il
r medately begin to revolve as soon as Il
feet were brought together. Suspend
- over the heart, the pendulum revolved of
sell Ill u ClFCl6 VI ulduClSi al
" over the forehead it revolved in an opposi
IS direction from it's course when held on Il
a. back of the head. These experiments va
ls somewhat with different persons; yet, wi
! greater or less force they seem to follow Il
y same law in nearly all cases What does
u mean! The force!is not electrical, for
acts as well through nonconducting as TIN
conducting bodies, and a silk instead of
Mt cotton thread makes no difference in the I
It. suit. 1t is no mere imagination, for there
SIS too much uniformity in result to favor tt
4. supposition. In some cases the revoluti
is in an orbit foot in diameter il not mol
st "We have not Reichenbach's book OIL
Sc Odic Force. Will any saran tell us if he
cir cognizes the above facts in his research
To into that mysterious attendant oflite!"
p- A NOVEL EXCHANGE. Carpets have rist
,st apparently mot in price that we know ot
ev but risen from the fluors which they used
- cover, to envelope the persons of the raj
~ youth of this metropolis. 1t is said--a
IA who that walks Broadway can doubt ita Il
be the ingenuity of makerslof pantalooh stu
which have been put TO such exceeding
severe tests during the last ten years, @
NG out, few months since In his despsir,o
ys of the leading men in that branch of bt
to- ness, sat ruminating--so the story goe;
,L with his eyes fixed gloomily on the carp
-" which chanced to he of vociferous patte
on a. Il. cloud in oh