Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-12
The Cause of Beauty In Women and
Ruggsdness in Men.

Ruggsdness in Men.
The Cornhill Magazine, discussing the
reason why physical beauty is preva
lent in the aristocrstic ranks OF Great
Britain, argues that it is due to the
constant selection Of the most beautiful
women ofall classes, peeresses, actresses,
or wealthy bourgoise, through an inn
mense number OF generations" and de-
duces from this fact, that average per
sonal beauty everywhere corresponds TO
the average general love for beauty in
the abstract" Thisis undoubtedly true,
with the addition that aesthetic taste is
the result chiefly OF education. Hence
il is that the prevailing beauty OF Amer
lean women is remarked by every
traveller from beyond the Atlantic.
Hereditary forms the features certainly,
in the main, are transmitted from genera
ton to generation, but they must be re
fined by social and mental education, or
else the course and the sensual will be-
come the rule, even among the tilted
classes OF England, In that kingdom,
beauty is the exception. not the rule, as
the repulsive ugliness OF the lower
human strata proves, and this is the
fact because those strata remain an
dense ignorance. The common school
system is at the bottom OF American
beauty. An American girl has the adj.
vantages of coed school education and Of
average musical training, and although
less robust than her British sisters, is
more spirituelle and refined in skin,
color and carriage. There can be no
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resultant of education beams through
the face and adds grace to the person,
for il is the province of love to do this
in women Just as the love of wisdom in
men makes them rugged. The late
Adelaide Nelson was unquestionabiy
kept beautiful by playing the loveliest
of all the characters of Shakespeare. The
stimulation begat similarity. On the
other hand, the face OF Thomas Carlyle,
Just deceased, was rugged and severe.
In Nelson's case, beauty streamed from
her face because her thoughts, derived
from and in sympathy with the Shake
spearean model, flowed from within to
without. In Carlyle's case, his face
was rugged because his thoughts flowed
from without to within. 1t is utterly
impossible for a great thinker to be
facially handsome, and if Sir Robert
Peel is cited as an example to the con-
trary, we say he was a rare exception.
Our Webster, Clay aud Calhoun were
not Apollos' although striking in features
and form. Women cultivate the af-
fections, and hence their loneliness,
provided they are educated in taste for
beauty; men cultivate the mind, and,
however great their requirements, the
inward flow OF thoughts will sooner or
later overwhelm very particle OF facial
beauty which they might have inherited
from a lovely mother. The truth is,
and few persons ever think OF it, there
is a tendency in men to leave the like
ness of their mothers and gravitate to-
ward the likeness of their fathers, and
that is the surest proof OF legitimacy.
To sum up, physical beauty, while a he
redlty of inter-marriage as the Cornhill
argues, is refined, heightened and in
every way enhanced by cultivation OF
the finest affections and intellectual
graces, such as the female heart and
mind can dear. Such a woman will be
attractive when her locks are silvered,
tor an inward artist molds her features
and makes them glass through which
the emotions are as visible as brilliant
colors through transparent vase.