The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-03

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eatiOn.-EThe Average Condition OF
the Public with Respect TO LOOlES.lg
From ths V5etorId Magazine. 10
1t mustsb delicious To know that.
you confer kind of favor upon all, by
simply being in the world; feeling q
consciousness that you have nothing to
dos nothing to say, in order to be re-
markable; but that all your functions
and duty is merely to present yourself
to the gaze of others, and graciously
condescend to be seen. The rest may
go win honor in the deadly breach, or
drudge half lifetime to acquire skill
in handling the brush, the chisel, or the
pen. But you are an aristoerat of fate,
and to be born with an FL. D., or for
the rank Of ,: A. to come with the first
toothI would be poverty of good for
tune matched against your endoW-
ments of clear skin. bright eyes, long
shining hair, small hands, or easy
1otnted limbs. The bulk of us are only
able to guess at this enchanting liberty
OF tte-thts rapture of,the physical
betng-Py sense OF not having 1t. We
exist only in fragments, Yop, Sir, are
proud Of your Hyperion-like looks; it
Is q pleasure to lift your hat on entering
q doorway, for you know that the ecurlY
masses Will attract attention, and
please the. eye. You, madam,
are especially contented with YOUR
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happiness you someWhat tostentatiously
remove your glove. But imagine, sir,
or madam, that, every point and detail
OF your person was in the same perfec-
tion-Whata q perpetual intoxication OF
the delicious power to please would 1t
and live sentiently to the very ends OF
your long, luxurtant hair; a shrug of
the shoulders to be a triumph-R raising
Of the eyebrows q victory; able to
license any eccentricity by the elegant
freedom of the doing of it, at liberty to
laugh, shout, run, OF indulge in any
1reak, as carried of by the graces of
your person, and that every new cd.
dity will only be q fresh opportunity of
admiration; knowing that slight oc-
casional negligence of dress would be
advantage inthe one way, just as per-
feet neatness at other times, and a
grand display on high festivals, would
be in the contrary manner! We
repeat, 1t must be delicious
But something requires to be said
as TO the actual average condition
OF the great public with respect to
its looks. Take street full of people,
selecting any thoroughfare you choose,
In any town or city In which these re-.
marks happen to be read, and lookat
them. The conclusion, we fear, will be
that In the ordinary way; we are an
| ugly lot. How broad shouldered. or
narrow Chested; over tall or dumpy,
STOPPING or twisted, swarthy or chaiky
skinned, folks arel inIf you meet with
g decent head, the body spoils 1t; or If
the trunk is as iti should Be, then you
find q distorted mask of a face above
It; II a person looks well sitting, pray
beware how you ask them to rises or,
on the other hand, should they have q
| dlgn1hed full length presence, 7expect
/ them, on taking a CHAIR to shut up like
a jack knife, and become mere head,
shoulders aud knees. 1t Is all very
/ well TO say that Nature knows best and
suits the one feature to the others; hut for
all that tudicious exchange of eyes,
noses and mouths would improve US
wonderfully and certain we are
and huge mistakes In the awarding Of
legs and arms. -. 3us,,t 80 s7Na1fia q
we are tempted to little depression
at this point. There is another fallaGV
which says that no two faces are alike.
ANY one who travels much will tell
you lhatt ne can, in widely sundered
places recognize certain orders of hu-
man countenatees most distinctly. In
every large town we have visited, we
have met certain facial types SO exactly
repeatedS that we are prepared to be-
lteve any drollery about mistakes in
personal Identity: We appeal to the
leader whether, having examined "a
street fuu of faces and backs, he does
not admit that the mob Of us is not
igood-lookingf Whether, indeed, it is
not a kind OF masquerade in which the
men ana women wear long and short
noses, disguise themselves in wrong
heads, and sophistIcate their legs9 we
don't believe the eyebrows we ourselves
wear belong to us; they don't match
either with forehead or eyes, and we 20
about shamefaced whenever we think
of II, aware that we are, figuring in
or twice we have had jglinpses of ,our
articles Gas we imagine5, but 1t has been
In brushes when we could not reclaim
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