The Shasta courier., 1862-07-12
Beanty.

Women, because beauty is supposed to be
peculiar to them, are called the fair sex, but
throughout nearly all foreign nations the
women are no more beautiful than the men,
and most of the men are hideously ugly. In
England there are more beautiful women
than there are anywhere else but even there
female beauty is so much the reverse of COM
mon that NoGar, herself. meaning to say
that another is ugly, viii term her ordinary
or, as that word is too generally pronounced,
ornary.
A beautiful girl, red and white, much re-
sembles an apple tree in bloom only apple
bloom fades rather faster than beauty. 1t
twenty, beauty, like the Grave-digger's tan
ner, g will last you nine years; - perhaps
a year or two more very likely not so
many years but its decay. though quickly
observed, is slowly felt. Loss of beauty is
not of much consequence to a wife for a
husband soon gets used to a wife's beauty,
and then, if ever so great, it is just as if it
were not; girls had better, therefore, not
accept men who want to marry them for
their beauty, and girl able to get a hus
band by more durable attractions is likely
to be happier in marriage without beauty
than she would be with it.
Beauty is chiefly a matter Of limited
roundness Of form, relative proportion, and
color in the right place for color in the
wrong place is not beautiful-for instance,
red at the end Cf the nose. When rotundity
exceeds certain arch, the form which was
beautiful grows funny. Beauty of figure
and complexion is best preserved by moder
alton in eating, not to say drinking, plenty
of exercise, and the use of soft water, with
out any other cosmetic than soap, of which
Il &c c.
is kept longest by discarding envy, hatred,
malice, small vanity. and anxiety about
money matters-emotions which gradually
muddle the eye and pull the outlines of the
face out of shape; anxiety about money
matters especially having the effect of caus-
ing dull, unhappy scowl, and distorting
the mouth Hence matronly beauty is rath
er often spoiled by engrossing attention to
domestic economy while, on the other hand
so very lively beauty distinguishes unmar-
ried girls and young wives who repose i'm
plct confidence in the solvency of their hus-
bands and fathers, as many of them do, al
| though the income of those gentlemen de-
pends upon their personal industry.
IIabitual regardlessness of expense is the
| chief cause of the superior beauty of the su-
perior classes, especially the aristocracy,
producing that beautiful serenity of counten-
anee which, reclining in the carriages that
reyolve around the ring in Hyde Park, they
most of them exhibit in strong contrast with
the sordid uneasiness generally remarked
in the clouded and puckered visages of those
who have, as the saying is, to pull the
devil by the tail.
Ihe only perennial beauty is that which
is sublimated by culivating the moral SEN
timents and the intellect. 1t is very rare
indeed. The rest is mere animal beauty,
and when the beauty goes the animal only
remains; the grace of the fawn is replaced
by the clumsiness of the COW, the plump ele
CANT young lady expands into the bulky mid
dleaged woman and ihe fine girl that was
becomes what she and the dandies who then
dangled after her used contemptously to call
an g elderly party" Here a woman who
had never any animal beauty to lose, but who
has some spiritual beauty which is not to be
lost, catches the other up and passes Der by.
Let this be consolation to every plain, SEN
sible girl, whose personal defects are the SUBJ
ject of satire, if such a girl can ever survive
such satire-Punch