Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-26
"LoOK ON THIS PICTURE

We gave lnst week, sketch of what we saw
at the Fair, but it seems friend SLIDER, of the Ri
siaq Sun takes different view of the identical oh
iects. Now. we know not how to account for this
discrepancy in tastes, only on the suppositon that
we have different standards of beauty. On this
subject we find the following '.beautful extract"
going the rounds of the papers:
"One of the most courteous and unaccountable
facts is the difference of taste and opinion in va
rous parts of the world, in regard to what consti'
tutes the special and predominant element Of hu-
man beauty Thus, the Chinese admire only the
form that is fattest and coarsest-the eyes must
be small and fiat. the nose short md ears long
and the feet usecssly small. In Spain, some of
the women perfume their hair with sulphur, and
soak their black curls in n strong lye to make
them red Among the Indians of South America,
it is beautiful to have fat face and they nearly
smother their infants by sitting on their faces
when they are first born, to flattcn their features
before they lose their softness in another tribe
on that same continent, it is beauty to have the
leanest Jaws or lanthorn Jaws and thckest of legs.
The inhabitants of Madagascar paint their teeth
bnck, green and red; and the exquisites of that
country extract their eyeteeth for the purpose of
inserting false ones of gold. silver, pinchbeck.
In the Marianues Islands, it is superb to have
black teeth and white hair. Certain Tartar tribes
embroider their vssages rs French women stitch
their boots, and Arab beauties prick their lips
till they bl, ed and then insert black powder in
the wounds. In Greenland, the useful misses tat
too their chins with colored radii, spreading from
the under-lip downwards. In India, they carve
upon their faces representations of Aowers-orua-
mental scars. There is no woman, therefore, who,
Judged by some one or other of the worlds many
diverse standards, who is not beautiful-ditferent
persons fixing their admiration on very different
forms Of beauty. For one man, there is but one
thing that touches him-beauty of the eyes; for
another man, beauty of forehead is the only
charm. One looks for beauty in nose, second
for beauty Of hands, third for beauty of feet"
Perhaps our gallant cotemporary could not find
any noses fiat enough or feet sufficiently grown to
come up to his ideas of beauty; or it may be that
he fancies woman "takin snuff" or tricked out
in Bloomer fashion, that he was so wofully dsan.
pointed. We cannot agree with his partrature of
the "chivarous gentlemen" for taking our great
men, distinguished VISITORS" candidates, and edt.
tors into consideration, and it quite respect
able and intellectual assemblage of the "lords of
creation" Nor can we think that the ladies so
''rusty frying -panish" as the Sun would have us
believe. Hear how he "serves them up"
1--WE do not desire or intend to provoke the
choler of any chivalrous gentlemen who was
there, but We do say, in spite of the devil and
Wnlker-Not Kansas or Nicaragua Walker but
Tom Walker that Heaven in manufacturing some
of Manufacturing ourselves-was exceedingly
sparing in comely materials.
'There were some tall specimens of Anaklms,
with savag beard and frightful mustaches, which
looked as if they had never seen water from the
day they were first turned out. The balance
wers medium sized, something, we presume, after
the order of the Anak boys 1t is hard-for us.
picture of beauty as we are,-to think upon such
things without being grieved We really sympa-
thize with those parents who have been and are
fated to look for so many years upon such lntoler-
able LONELINESS.
LAS to the female portion, language fails US to
express our sentiments at once truthful and graph
ic. The amount of female homeness was indie
scribable and inconceivable There were few
brilliant exceptions,
Whose lips, eyes, cheeks and features
Seemed to be drawn by loves own hand.
They were "Oases in the desert-lovely blossoms
in the Wilderness" whom to look upon was feast
to the eye and rapture to the soul. But oh ms to
a majority, pass the veil before US. We wish them
no harm we wish them joy peace, happiness
they will and may probably make shining stars