The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-03-09
BEAUTY
It's Various Meanings iu Different COHE,
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history and both friends and enemies Of
that great ruler of her time. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that she was, after her
"heyday" of youth, a plain, if not an
ugly woman, and that in her old age she
was positively hideous. Ristori's person
alton of the bold. hearted queen includes
the most wonderful exhibition of mobil-
ity of features. ever seen in the changes
which so perfectly portray the advance
of senility and render almost pathetically
ugly a face so beautiful as that which
nature endowed the Italian muse. When
Queen Elizabeth was far advanced in
life she ordered all pictures OF herself
painted by artists who had not fattered
her faded features to be collected and
burned, and in 1893 she issued procla-
nation forbidding all persons, " save
special cunning artists" to draw her
likeness. At last the queen quarrelled
with her impolitely faithful looking
glasses, and Ristori's thought ought not
to allow the presence of mirror in the
final scene Of her Elizabeth" as it is an
historical fact that none were allowed in
her presence during her last years. No
would have dared to permit
her to see one. Socrates called beauty
brief tyranny, Plato called it a privilege
of nature, Theophrastus a silent cheat,
and Aristotle affirmed it was better than
all the letters of recommendation in the
world. Since the time of EstheT beauty
has had its potent sway and charm and
value. Dean Swift proposed to tax fe-
male charms, leaving each woman to
place a valuation on her own attractions.
Lord Bacon said that the best part of
beauty is never painted or expressed in a
picture; with us the standard of beauty
differs toto ceJo from the ideal of other
and races.
The Chinese admire black teeth and
painted eyelids. On the shores Of the
Mediterranean great corpulency is pre-
ferred. "Hair like wheat" the ''honey-
colored hair" of Homer, is the most affec-
ted of late among us. "BrOwn in shad-
Ow, gold in sum-" is beautiful shade,
but Elizabeth's bright red hair, capill-
i'd for" as she called it, was inspirationto
sycophant pens in her time, and even
lovely Mary of Scots sacrificed her beau
tiful dark locks to the fred fronts" Gle
Opatra, Lady Macbeth, and the much ma
ligned, beautiful and noble Lucretia
BOrgia had hair light and golden. Leigh
Hunt, who said many wise things con-
corning female beauty, dress, etc, and
who regarded the lips as expressing char
acter as fully as the eyes, declared tnat
beauty was too often sacrificed to fashion.
u The spirit of fashion is not beautiful,
but willful; not graceful, but fantastic;
not superior, but vulgar" Jeremy Tay-
or called women "the precious porcelain
Of human clay" Aytoun says "a pref
ty woman is wOman's work in the world,
making life summer by look which tells
Of large heart and all the gentleness Of
humanity" A smile, which speaks of
cOmpassionateness, is, after all,
The apotheOsis of a pretty woman. Sem
eca said, " Virtue is more agreeable com
ing from a beautiful body" Beauty is
called the fatal gift, because of
The miseries which pursue its chances in
life. 81 have known few women in my
life" said Mary Montagu, "whose ex-
traOrdinary charms and accomplishments
didnot make them unhappy"
THE PROPER TREATMENT.-A cores
pOndent writes to the Druggists Circu-
lar, describing mode Of treatment for
lime in the eye, He says; A colored
man came to me in intense agony, some
nnslaked lime having got into his eye.
That the lime must be neutralized at an
hazards felt certain. / chose sulphuric
acid. ! put one drachm and half of
the diluted acid in four ounce graduate,
filed it with water, and told him to wash
his eye with the liquid. He did as he
was told, and was relieved almost imme-
diately. Then ! made him rinse his eye
with pure water, and after that / told
him to anoint il with olive oil and to
continue the appIication for anna Tina