Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-02-29
CELEBRITIEs-How THEY LOOK.

The lively New York correspondent Of
the Springfield (Niass.) Republican, after
saying that men of moderate talent are ac-
customed to make a show of all their intellec-
tual powers, remarks:
As far as my personal knwledge extends,
those who stand in the first rank of intel
lect do not belong to this class They car
ry no stark sign on face or garment, declar-
ing-"I AN a genius" Behold the eighth
wonder of the universe" Emerson looks
like refined farmer, meditative and quiet
LOngfellow like goodnatured beef-eater.
Holmes like ready tO-laugh little body.
wishing only to be 'as funny as he car" !"
Everette seems only the graceful gentleman
who has been handsome. Beecher ruddy
rOllicking boy. Bancroft plain, negative
looking man. Whittier the most retiring
of Quakers. Bryant plain, serene |. ok
ing man, dressed in gray. And thus 1
might name others. Not one of these gen.
tlemen can be called handsome, unless, we
except Beecher, who might be deal hand
sOmer. In this respect they can bear no
Palm away from any intellectual women,
who have always been called very homely.
There is nothing in dominant intellect,
in continuous, ,far-reaching. wearing thought.
to favor the curves of beauty; it consumes
greater quantity of tissue and than fluid It
supplies. Itdilates the eye but deepens the
lines, sharpens the bones, and often wears
the nerves to = torturing quickness. So
this one reason why intellectual women
should carry their quantum of ugliness.-
Let US look at them as they pass. Mrs.
Sigourney the grand mother of American
female" literature, in her primeGf We may
believe her pOrtraiD was quite handsome.
Catharine Beeeher is homely. Mrs. Beech
er Stowe. so ordinary in looks she has been
taken for Mrs Stoves "Biddy." Mrs c..
NJ. Kirkland is fat dOwager. Mrs. E.
f. Ellet looks like washerwOman. Mar
garet Fuller was plain. Charlotte Cushman
has face as marked as Daniel Webster's
and quite as strong So has Elizabeth
Blackwell. Harriet Hosmer looks like a
man. Mrs. Anne S. Stephens heavy and
coarse. Mrs. Oakes Smith is considered
handsome. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has
been New York belle. Frances L. Os
good had lovely womanly face. Amelia
F. Welby was almost beautiful. Sarah J.
Hale, in her young days, quite, unless her
picture fbs. The Davidson sisters, as we'll
as their gifted mother, possessed beauty. If
we cross the ocean VIC find Madame de
Stael was fright; but Hannah Moore was
handsome; Elizabeth Fry glorious; Letitia
Langdon pretty; Mrs. Hemans wondrously
lovely; Mary Hewitt fair and matronly /;
Mrs. Norton regally beautiful; but alas!
she who has the largest brain of all, with
as great heart, Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing. in physique is angular, and though
she has magnificent eyes. her face is sugges-
tive Of tombstone. Charlotte Brc.ile had
a look in her eyes better than all beauty Of
features. Butif we look at the British men Of
first class eranium-Shakespeare and MIL
ton were handsome DR.. johnson was a
monster of ugliness; so we're Goldsmith snl
Pope; Addison was tolerably handsome; /;
and COleridge, Shelly, Byron, Moore, Camp
bell, Burns. all were uucomRonly Sd. Sir
Walter Scott looked very ordinary in spite
of his fine head. Macaulay is homcly.-
Bulwer nearly hideOus although dandy.
Charles Dikens is called handsome. but |
must be allowed to differ, and, covered with
jewelry. he can but look ike simplet1n.
1 might go on almost ad ii!tiatam-but,
after all. in proportion, is this class any
homelier than any other?