Connecticut western news., 1878-02-14
A Young Girls Beauty and a Young
 Girls Brains,

as,there are ill all other counties in the State, good many sound girls who are physically very beautiful, but who are mentally very weak. We do not go so far as to say that handsome face is al- ways sure sign of an uncultured mind, but we do say that more than one-half of the girls have everything that is beauti- full about them the very moment they open their mouths, coarse method of speech, an ungramatical sentence, or a slang phrase destroys at once their phy- sical behaHior, and makes them creatures to be avoided rather than to be approach ed. Beauty is of itself but poor capital in young lady, for unless it is accom- panied y a we'll developed mind it be- comes utterly powerless to WOO or to win. Therefore the girl who imagines that her loveliness, independent of anything else, will carry her safely and happily through this world, will end her days in loneliness and misery, for beauty is like the per fume of the flower, and the blush upon the rose which hour by hour grow less and less, and finally disappear altogether.
 Sensible men nowadays look for more than 8 pretty face, and seek for those whose intelligence will make them com panionable, for wife who cannot be her husbands companion, and who by her mental graces and accomplishments can not render his home the sweetest place on earth, will not only make his roof dreary one, but will also render herself disconsolate and unhappy.
 We remember short time ago that we had a conversation with one Mont clair lady concerning another.
 '' Is Miss So and So not wonder fully beautiful ?' was her question.
 '' We cannot tell, was the response.
 "Cannot tell ?" she exclaimed in as- tonishment. Why are you blind Gan you not see that she is beautiful2"
 '' We consider no one beautiful who IS not bright. Has she any education p
 {" Oh, we'll, if you mean that," was the return, " she is not very well informed. She's been off to three boarding schools, but she came back here to Montclair be- fore the term ended. But her beauty will carry her through"
 "Ah, madam" we said, "you are mis- taken. Her beauty will not carry her through-no, not by any means. What kind of wife would she make? how in- terest her husband? how make his home bright and tasteful and happy2 How without education could she furnish his house, keep it in good order or train her children How being ignorant herself could she educate little ones :? They toe anight be beautiful like their mother, but they would grow up only after her intellectual cast, and would in turn be- come the mothers of children like them selves" One ignorant woman is more in 0 community than dozen ignorant men for from her spring other women, whom she cannot educate because she is uneducated herself" and this is true. The moment our young men find young ladies not given to reading and study, our young men should instantly avoid them. A man cannot raise 8 woman up to his standard of thought and culture; but the woman will always drag him down to hers. An ignorant girl can always, as 8 wife, dethrone her husband, and make him creature of pity to his fellow men. We have seen @ woman's ignorance upset some of the very brightest of human in tellects, and change the drift of mans life so utterly that his usefulness was entirely destroyed.
 We are willing to admit that the pres ent condition of affairs is apt to encour- age idleness and ignorance too rich dress and pretty face will create sen- sation, and to the female mind this sensation is one of the very sweetest of things. It can be created anywhere, at home, in the street, at the theatre. at the opera, and two or three times every week in the church. This being so, there is every temptation for young girls to be satisfied with this alone, and to let books and papers go unread.
 We always are pleased to see mothers appreciate the beauty of their children, and dress them handsomely when they appear in public. It is 8 mothers duty, 1 and it ought to be mothers care to do this, but mothers duty and mothers \ care should not end here. In the seclu- sion of home, when husband is at his business, the mother should teach the child that beyond the world of fashion and of beauty there is 8 higher sphere of existence, and that fashion and beauty ere only seductive to sensible men in proportion to the development of the human intellect. The mother should from history point the child to the fatal and of those women who were beautiful
 without brains, and contrast them witt those immorta1s whose intellectual graces and accomplishments only rendered
 their beauty all the more fascinating and
 irresistible. It is not difficult to becoms
 educated. The pursuit of knowledge Ii
 the very quintessence- of happiness
 Every book you read, if it be good, only
 increases your longing for other books
 and every fact you learn only renders
 you desirous of ascertaining more. Brai1
 work, too, always changes theI physica
 culture of the face. Study and culture
 nourishe it's weak lines into strength
 and sharp eye can, in most instances
 immediately tell whether 8 girl is bright
 and well read before she has spoken {
 word. Study and reading, in fact, make
 the woman; they teach her grace, they
 teach her good taste, they teach her eti
 quette, they teach her charity, they teach her virtue: they remain with her, and