The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-10-17
PROFESSIONAL BEAUTIES
Beauties Sometimes Ont Of Fashion- The
advantages of Advertising-How to Puff
a Lovely Woman-A Picture Of London
Society.

Beauties are sometimes out of fashion.
We do not deny that beautiful women are
always more or less admired, but beauty
mania, like other manias, is an occasional
epidemic and not chronic disease. Even
when beauties are in fashion, only ono va
riety commands the market at a time
There are men living who are old enough
to remember the time when the political
beauty was dominant. The woman of this
description was on rather a large scale
mature and strong minded. She frted
with statesmen and diplomatists, and her
boudoir was supposed to be hotbed of po-
ltical intrigue. If she had been as power
full as she pretended, no monarch could
have called his kingdom his own, but al
though the world took her too much at
her own valuation, she was in reality little
better than q lion hunter and busybody.-
The queens of another period were the
young, the innocent, and tho fair. Many
of their portraits are still extant, in which
they appear in long limp white garments,
with waists just below their arm pits
They would hare been voted slow in our
time, but in their own day they were con.
sidered models of purity and grace They
had little to say for themselves, but poetry
was written to them by tho ream. Their
loveliness was of the wishywashy style, and
they were pure because they knew no bet
ter. They would be thought bores and
blue stockings in these days, and they were
probably very fighty in their own "Eman-
cipated woman" have fortunately not been
al e., - A.
have not yet been champions of women's
rights. Religious beauties have, through
out history had occasional reigns, but, upon
the whole, beautiful demons have had their
turn more frequently:
For good or for evil, beauties arc now in
fashion. Indeed, so fashionabl, are they
that to be beauty is one of the recognized
professions. Amateur beauties are despised
and neglected and have no more chance of
success than medical man with no diplo-
ma. The faces Of the leading statesmen, bar
risters and physicians, arc not so familiar
as those Of the leading beauties. Marriage
seems to be necessary preliminary to re-
cognition as beauty in these days. When
the pretty woman has been married, she has,
as it were, passed the first examination
the "smalls" of beauty. A woman hardly
attains to her full beauty until she is TWEEN
ty-two, and if she is not married by that
time the world thinks that she ought to be.
Having passed her "little CO." the candi-
date has to enter into a competitive exam
ination, the examiners for which are fash.
ionable men of the faster sort, but only
small number are allowed to pass into the
ranks of professional beauties
In all professions and trades the way to
get on, according to modern notions, is to
advertise, aud beauties are not slow in avail
ing themselves Of this method of attaining
fame. We consequently find them adver-
tised, like lost terriers and missionary meet
ings, in shop windows. Beauties contrive
to combine the two important modern agen-
cies of advertisement and photography in
their thirst for admiration, aud we see their
names and their photographs in so many
windows that, were it not impossible to be
tired of them, we might grow slightly wea.
ry of the perpetual repetition. The simple
might expect to fini the carte de visite of
the husbands by the side of their wives
Not bit Of it. IF we look at photograph
Of one Of the beauties in London shop
NihooW VIC ohoh piopaDlJ uuu tue repre-
sentation of Cardinal Manning on one side
of it, and that of an eminent murderer on
the other. All three are notables in their
way, but with this difference, that neither
the cardinal nor the murderer has any wish
TO be advertised, whereas it is the hearts
desire of the beauty. The persistency of
the latter in this pursuit is amazing. She
even rivals the patent medicine monger,
who takes column Of daily paper to cx.
plain that his wonderful syrup is good for
headache, heartburn, chronic rheumatism,
and pulmonary complaints. She is not to
be beaten by the quack, and occupies a
large space in every shop window of GER
tain type, portrayed in as many aspects as
the unfailing physic. She seems to say,
"Look at me in this position, and if you do
not then admire me, look at me in that
Don't l look bewitching under AN umbrella,
and cannot 1 melt your stony heart by
standing with my head on one side and my
thumb in my mouth ? Look at me, buy
me, talk about me and oh, write about me
Speak of me as the beautiful Mrs. A. and
say am lovelier than Mrs. B." And thus
the beauty hopes to gain even more eel.
ebrity than tho anti-biious pills iu the
chemists window next door. She would
depso the comparatively obscure fame to
be obtained by the exhibition of her photo.