The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-27
Pretty and Ugly Women.
By MOSES

No woman can say truthfu'ly that
she does MT care whether she is p ct
ty or not. Every woman does care.
The immutable laws Of her beirg have
made physical attrac ~iveness, as much
a natural glory to her, as strength is
to a man.
Here | may be told that what | am
laying is supertiuous, for pei feet beau
~ has no n. ed of art to enhance il,
and that those WHO have been born
with hard, or worse, with perfectly
unint. re sting features. DO not waut to
be told that physical at r.ctivenes> Is
Indispensable to them. but it is es.
pecially to the plain and to the gentr-
all, ~ill-fayored that | address these
words Of ADVICE and warning, an"
should Beauty's-seif find a few useful
hints. | see no reason why she should
not avail her elf Of them | know
that there are people who look vel
anywh. re and anyhow no vulgarity,
~ carelessness of sp ech, dress, or a :
uiude seems able to d'%seuchant them
but tn sc r"rely-gifted p, rsonsa re bu
the Exceptions hat prov the rule
CIAA ~ SAASI1 S0oS II Oh L 1Ili1D
S dnsy spake is t ue-h- Says there is
thst in we'll CHOSEN S%urroundi gs.
Which does even beauty beautif
And most bewitch the captived eye:''
and Herr ok, too, IL his Poetry of
Dress" seems to have had an asIute
apr. cia ion Of how be i Y may be
beau itied. These men lived in tn.
six eenth century-a time when color
IN dress vas an understood "a q valued
ad junct, and before we had learned 10
make our dwellings lntOlerable to the
eye.
An immense number Of ill-tempered
ugly woman are tilt mpered because
they are u ly. They do not know i
their friends don't und rsta d. and
make no allowance ; but heav. indeed
IS the bul den upon these poor women,
ahf pefnlclOus IN its effect on their
mo- al character very OF en-. I have
heard 1t said that ugly women are all
ways bad tempered this is an DER
statement, but there Is a certain de-
gree Il Truth In the saying, cru | as If
IS. An ugly child cares nothing for its
uglinesS, but when it g,OwS older. and
that it lacks something
which Is priced and honOred, and S
tWltted with the deficiency, and Leg
lected thrOu h 1t, and is reminded If
1t every time 1t looks in the 81 SIS or
n another face. the constant disap~
polntment begins very early to en-
bitter the whole nature, and creates a
melancholy shyness AID when the
desire to attract anakes with W ars.
the young girl finds her fairer
trends preferred befor, her, The vain
.endeavoIs to please by other mems
dlsheer'en her, and she grows sarcas-
tic, n!-natured, enviOus of every body.
though half unconsciously many
other faults follow, and she becomes
unh tppy and mOrOse. No one ever
knows VIVA she suffers; but she does
sutf.r very %acutely.
am certain that, however laudable
effo.t is Of ugliness to attr set by
by accomplishments, by gen
usefulness, or by S tire, nothing
really compe, sa es fol tie want Of per-
5 nal beauty. In, best TIL. g that an
ugly Oman can do is to make YOU
forget that she Is ugly fOr the time be-
lng II cannot enc ate. Al d
VIII st | should advise all women t.,
become as intelligent aud clev. r as
To- y Can, whether they be plain or
still wish mere beauty were
nade more an acknowledged and on
)ra Die art than 1t is by a | to whom
Iod ha- given eyes aud al inte lectuaI
ram. IL Is not a SIN or a folly !" 10 z
every woman longs to be lovely.
she Is 20 constitu ed, and her bsauty
: IS a glory to her."