Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-11-26
misteIIantuus.
From the Philadelphia Bulletn.l
Beautiful Women-A Lecture by the
Countess of Landsfelt.

Madame Lola Montez came before an au.
dience as large as any We have seen for long
time, at Musical Fund Hall, on Saturday
evening. The great proportion were gentle
men, but the rows of black coats were varied
every here and there by the bright array of
ladies fair in all the glory of silks, satins, hoops
founceS aud new bonnets. The fair lecturer
wore white silk dress with a lace basque,
and her beautiful hair was elegantly yet SIM
ply arranged Many curious eyes and unwel-
dy lorgnettes were directed toward the hero
Inc Of so many adventures, and it is to be pre-
sumed that many of her audience, led by sim
pie curiosity, saw her face for the first time,
although she appeared at both the Chestnut
street and Walnut street Theatres in this city
not very long time ago.
For the information of those who did not
see the Countess on either of the above occa-
sIon9, we may mention that she is a slight,
de!cate-looking lady, about the medium height,
with black hair, a pale face-very pale indeed
and large, deep, melancholy eyes, lighting
up her rather care-worn features with wonder
fnl power, and changing with the airiest varia-
tons of expression, quickly as thought or a
flash. Her gestures were simple yet graceful
-
which seemed to fill the hail. clear, fine and
well nodulsted A mere tinge Of foreign ae-
cent aud slight hesitation as TO grammati-
cal phrase rather added to the charm of her
pquant discourse
The subject was Beautiful Women" and
the lecturer began by recitng a classic fable
about the last and most difficult Office imposed
on Psyche, which was to descend to the lower
regions and bring back a portion of Proser-
pines beauty in box. The too curious god
dess raised the top, when 10 vapor rose
nlstlIy from under the lifted lid and floating
away, left the box empty and the goddess ig-
aoFaRt So it was with an attempt to arrive
al the essential charm of beauty-we strive to
md out its component parts, and behold the
charm has fed Then too, another difficulty
arises beauty has no fixed standard ; no i'm.
aulable regulations. A beautiful woman in
!ae United States is not beautiful woman in
LeXin, and the notion about beauty among
Tue M MoDgols, differs from the European idea
we imagine graceful and delicate woman
o'eauutul, and the beauties Of Rubens weigh
tafee hundred pounds Even his Graces are
i&! so that the to kalon-the essentially
eeautlful, is hard to fnd Some writers have
attempted to surmount the difficulty by de
caring that nothing in itself is beautiful OF
.tese ..t'aer~lse it becomes so by association but
,n'S is making beauty a merely negative quail
>, 10 which We can hardly agree.
-. ked hair has generally been considered
osner than beautiful yet in Queen Elizabeth'f
oue 1t was extremely fashionable, and Mary
queen OF Scots, who had beautiful dark hair
sofe s red fronts in compliment to the red hair
sa2ueen Of England The gorgeous Cleo
ps'.a was red haired, and the Venetian ladies
NJ - .nls DAY counterfeit golden locks. yellow
,S ss.f mas historic title to consideration, fol
seefoer Of the golden fleece was 10 ereate(
!" !" yellow haired founder