The Dillon tribune., 1881-03-26
The cause Of Beauty in Women.

The Cornhill Magazine, discussing t''e
reason why physical beauty is prevalent IN
the aristocratic ranks Of Great Britain,
agree, that It is due tn the "con>tant neiec'
ton of the most beautiful women OF all class
rs, peercsses, actresses. or wealthy pour
gcoise, tn, ough an immense number OF
generations" and deduces from this fact
that "average personal beauty everywhere
corresponds to the average general love Tor
beauty in the abstract" This is undoubt-
cdlv true, with the addition that aesthetic
taste Is the result chiefly OF education.
Hence it is that tho prevailing beauty OF
American women is remarked by every
traveller who comes from beyond the at.
lantic. Hereditary forms and features Ger
tainly, in he main, are transmitted from
generation to generation, but they must be
refined by social and mental education, or
else the course and scnsul will become the
rule, even among the titled classes OF En-.
land. In that Kingdom beauty is the ex.
ception, not the rule, ~ the repulsivc ugl''
ness Of the lower human strata proves, and
this il the fact because those strata remain
in dense ignorance. The common school
system is ut tile bottom oi American beau
ty.
An American girl has the advantages ol
good school education and Of average
musical training, and although less robust
than her British sister, is more spirituclle
and refined In skin, color and carriage
There can be no doubt that the love Of the
beautiful, resultant 0f education, beams
through the face and adds grace to the yer
son, for it is the province oi' love to 90 this
| in women Just as the love OF wisdom In
men makes them rugged. The late AIDE
laide Nelson was unquestionably kcp'
beautiful BY playing the lovliest Of all tn
characters OF Shakespeare. The stimulation
begat similarity. On the other hand, tn
face Of Thomas Carlyle, JUST deceased, wa
rugged and severe. In Nelson's cas-
beauty strea,ned from her face because h.s
thoughts, derived from and in sympath.
with the Shakespearean mode flowed iron
within tn without. In Carlyle's case, hi
face was rugged be.sause his thoughts flow
ed fromwitI,o,,l to within. 1t is uttcrl
impossibletor very great thinker to b
facially handsome, and II Sir Robert PEI
is cited US anexample to the country, tn
answer Is that he was rare exception
Our Webster, Clay and Calhoun were nc
Appollos; although striking III ieaturcsa II
form.
: Women cultivate the affections, an
r hence their lovcliness, provided they ar
educated in taste ior beauty; men cult
J. vate the mind and however great ttct p
i quire,nents, the inward flow Of Thought vi
a sooner or later ovcrwhcIm every particl
Of facial beauty which they might hav
" inherited iron. lovely mother. The trut
). is, and few people ever think Of 1t, there
a certain tendency in men to leave tt
| likeness Of their mothers and gravita
toward the likeness Of their fathers, at
Il that Is the surest proof Of Legitimacy. !
sun, up, ply sicial icauty. while heree
IS ty of inter marriage, as the Cornhill a
o CUES, is refined, heightened and in evc
7 way enhanced by cultivation otthc fine
ID affections and intellectual graces, such !
a the female heart ami mind can BEAR Su,
- a women will l,c attractive when her loo
are silvercd, ,,r AN inward artist mol
4 ~,
le t.,rou.l, which, the emotions are lis visit
" It's brilliant coiots through, u transpare
~ vase.