Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-17
Beautiful women.

The world-renowned traveller, Bayard Tay-
lor, recently visited the race-course near
Warsaw, Poland. In describing the character
and appearance of the assembled horses and
humans, he says:
What more interested me than the speed
of the horses was the beauty of the Polish
women of the better class During two years.
IN Europe. have not seen so great a number
OF handsome faces as win hour yesterday
1t would be difficult te furnish larger pro-
portion from the acknowledged loneliness of
Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Louisville /
heard of an American marrying a Polish lady
at Dresden the other day, and / must COM
mend his taste. These naids of Warsaw are
not only radiant blondse. whose eyes and hair
remind you of corn-fiowers among ripe grain.
but also dark-eyed beauties, with faces of a
full Southern oval, lips round and delicate as
those OF an Amorette. and pure golden
transparency of complexion. The connois-
seur OF woman's beauty can nowhere better
compare these two rival styles, nor have so
great difficulty in deciding between them.n
NOW, 1t is perfectly natural for all women to
be beautiful If they are not so. the fault
lies In their birth or training, or in both. An
organism which is perfectly healthy in all its
parts will be hamoniOusly developed. and.
whether male or female. it will be perfectly
beautiful. Hence there can be no true beauty
without health, and there can be no perman-
ent health In the future man or woman unless
the child is properly cared for We would
therefore respectfully remind American moth
ers that. in Poland, a period of childhood
is recognized. There, girls do not jump from
infancy to young ladyhood. They are not
sent from the cradle directly to the parlor. to
dress, sit still. and look pretty. No. they are
treated as children should be. During child
hood, which extends through period of sew
eral years; they are plainly and loosely dress
ed, and allowed to run, romp, and play in the
open air. They take in sunshine as does the
flower. They are not loaded down. girded
about, and oppressed every way with countless
frills and superintendent fiounces. so as to be
admired for their much clothing. Nor are
they rendered delicate and dyspeptic by con-
tinual stuffng with candies and sweet-cakes,
as are the majority of American children.
Plain, simple food, free and various exercise.
and abundant sunshine, during the whole per-
lod OF childhood, are the secrets of beauty in
after life
Mother. would you raise up to womahood
beautiful daughter? Then give her plenty of
sun IN the days of her youth. Sunshine,
which thousands of American females seem
to fear worse than the flake of fire and brn-
stone," is the greatest cosmetic in nature-in-
deem. the only one. Beauty of the complex
ion is as much dependent on its influence as
are the tints of the rose or the fragrance
of the peach.
If women would cultivate beauty of per-
son 10y preserving health. all other graces
would be added. They would soon have their
rights" for all power would be in their
hands. A man, in the normal state, as natur-
ally bows down to truly beautiful woman,
as he adores his Creator. Probably no man
living has gazed upon greater number of
beautiful female faces than Bayard Taylor.
But here familiarity does not breed contempt.
He is as easily charmed now by vision of
female lOyeliness, as he was before one of the
visions charmed him into matrimOny. H.
says:
"At Granitza we were charmed by a vision
of perfect loveiness, which shOne on us from
time to time from the upper window of an
adjoining mansion. 1t was woman of
twenty-five, of ripe and yet tender beauty
features exquisitely regular, complexion like
blush rose, large, soft eyes, rather violet
than blue, and ripping crown of magnif-
cent hair, "brown in the shadow and gold in
the sun" confess to watching this beauti-
full creature for half hour, through the
window-blinds.