Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-07
Female Beauty In America.
Boston Courier.


Spite of any sneers at the lack of beauty
among Boston women, we incline TO the
opinion tn something approximatlng
phi ) scial perfection is in the near future.
Be it understood that we do OF refer to
that type whose opponents make u bust
ness of auty. The professional variety
has underg" No SUCH u nppIng frost that
the crop will probably be short for sone
years to come; aud responsibility will res
Ice to see these prof4ne females who have
driven u thrivir trade in the gift of the
gods relegated to the liLLbo OF outgrown
and forgotten vanlt es.
tut genuine beauty of face and form is
unmIslakab y on the ga n And nowhere
Is thus more apparent than IN America ;
| although, perbap, we should hardly
think of tering our immediate hom =
| show for first prize-ths rue Huonlte
having eve paid m lie attn to the cul-
ture OF brain than of physique. And wnea
we take his antecedeIts intu cons celebration
this is nut to be wandered at. IN the
first place, our primitive Pa itan Was
not a very promising stock to breed
upon for beauty. Religion aid prlnci pie
are fine things, and New England wound
| ee nowhere without them but 1t must be
admilled hat if u girl brought up on Il
| ,te1dy oiet of Psalm singing, prsler and
dried peas or bears, DEVELOPS into Venus,
she does it under difficulties. And, IN tue
second place the Puritan maid-n who Was
| true to the traditions of the ED RS dee",e ed
beauty more than tatal, q dab ,iical,
dower, and steadi y refused 10 be beauti vi
Gin spite Of ali temptation," 10 that end
| di figuring herself With Cap and gown #
| pre.entlUnal and truly pIous uglines-. In
| deed, we have our Stars to III .nk that en
few went outside the beaten pains, ana
| flu filisd their man fest destiny of delight
| ing the eye-even Though eyes were none
to appreciate them ia heir own day, or
bold enough to admit it If they did-and
that their desce, dents still survive to glad
ur $ GIT and thrill our too suscep Ible
| hearts
Thanks to more generous diet, a freer
outdoor life aud large outlook, the press
ent generation will leave a leu herr a-e 10
posterity. Ii is astonishing to see the i'm
! proveme mt in the human foIm that has nc
com, anied the increase of weait in tn,
country Poverty may be, and often j. re-
| Specialize, but 1t Is the ri n of many fne
pDyslque, and it is matter for jub,lat,on
that We have within our borders u a ge
| and growing class who can aff,rd to be
| c. nj FORTH BILE
| VI curse there is Danger of running to
The other ext eme The sleek and we'll
ted business man is somatimes suggestive
OF a equity old age, rs i. tn. buxJm and
rooustious oeauty of The wa ioltng DO va
ger; put, on the whole, thare is n M 81 de
cid.d betternent And, although il msv
not be IN our times, we NAV indulge
a reasonable hope for a MT far dIs-
tant future he3lhe toiling race of New
| England farmers wives, that sslIow
skinny, snlera us fed sisterhood shall he
extiDce; and in their p aces shall stand a
male, hear and happy following, VINO
live on the fat of the land and sci only
yIyha nb ut
VINO have time and taste to array them,
selves in something beside !, 6, imp cotton
gown, and gladly make CONCESSIONS to
| fashion in the matter of eoiffure; who read
some' hing best the B ole, and. on tna
whole. have Almost rs easy . lime rs the r
spouses' beasts of burden.
We notice with pain that mary latter.
day prophets are inclined TO give the physi.
cal the go-by, aud plant III EN- eel YES frml .
IN favor of purely intellec ual type
While we II respect brains, we must say
that there Is such thing as the devotion.
ment of the human skull in the w.v -,
bralny bumps that is simply appalling
The countenance that is "slckiied ~,
wi b the pale cast of thought" is Ill very
we'll now and then, and curiosity, bu
We don't wish our fresides int restee
with it.
Take it all in all, we believe we have
right to facilitate ourselves in the facs o
the world over our women. TIE great an
overwhelming advantage that /. bell
i Americana possesses over her f1reign CON
peers is that althOugh she revels, rs q girl
in what the French cali la beaate diable
her charm does not fade Wi the asetin
years of youth. and we are sp red the bor
Tor of seeing the English transformation c
: delicate hign>bred lovIiness into the SIN
flanoe of n big fabby and some what lntem
perate cook, or the frix hlful soectacl
afforded by our continental Sisters, of tn
shrinking and changing of a pretty
piquant face to the weakened features o
an elderly female monkey. Ofcourse in
nocent, unconscious beauty is q thing q
the past; that we cannot hope to regain
the young woman of the present ds
knows her good points as we'll az she doe