The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-09
An Eloquent Tribute tn aud Defense
Thin Women.

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An Eloquent Tribute tn aud Defense
Thin Women.
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Now all the men are grumbling because
Sara is thin. This only proves how unrea-
sonable these male creatures are.
The highest compliment according TO the
ideas of men, that can be paid woman, as
a woman end as an artistic, is that she is full
of passion, of warmth of soul-warming fire.
This desired quality is possessed by but few
and these few are sufferers from their birth
Their strong emotions enhance the magma
ton. They can comprehend all suffering.
all Joy. They can enter into the calmness
of despair and be even more touching in
this still anguish of the soul than when en-
tranced with JOY, or fiery with indignation
and torture.
a woman or a man with such a tempera-
ment, with such passionate fire preying con-
tinually upon the physique, can not be fat,
can not even be plump. Happiness to such
natures is an exquisite pain. BH: who can
comprehend this unless they have souls in
sympathy with it2 These at least will not
fret that a woman is thin when they feel the
fiery warmth of her soul. Such souls are
ever reaching upward toward the light, and
though often falling into error are capable of
the loftlest deeds of valor and noble self
sacrifice. Even the material, when brought
in contact with such beings, as too often
happens in this life, feel strange sensation
as il they had discovered something exceed
ingly rare and valuable, but beyond their
comprehension.
The sword of the spirit cuts through the
delicate sheath.
When men buy race-horses. do they look
for the fat ones? No. They know well by
experience and observation that the finest
racer, the most keenly, sensitive and in
telligent animals, with "tbe speed of
thought" in their limbs, are always lean and
spare 1t is the FIRE within these restless
steeds that keeps them thin. The Bible
gives the finest description in the horse who
smells the battle from affair"
Some artists have represented Cleopatra
as large, fat women. This was in accord
with the soul of the man who painted her.
Yet methinlSs that this woman who capti-
waited the great Roman soldier was no mass
Of flesh; but in imagination | see woman
somewhat above the medium height, with a
lissome, willowy form, so slight as to just
escape the term thin, with firm muscle, but
not an ounce more fat than was necessary to
cover the small bones.
With such fiery temperament Cleopatra
could not have been fat. In imagination we
see her as she, assisted by her maids, pulls
with long, slender arms at the cords which
drag her dying Antony to her arms. What
a scene was there presented
HAD great Juno's power
! The strong-winged Mercury should fetch thee up,
And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come little,
/ Wisbers we're ever fools. q come, come, come,
And welcome, WELCOMED die, where thou hast lived
Quicken with kissing; had my lips that power,
/ 1hus would / them out.
No; the men are like children who eat
their cakes and then cry for them. They
love beyond ali others woman of deep and
fervent passion. yet they wish her to feel the
keenest Joy, the deepest anguish, and still be
round and rosy for their eyes. This Is rarely
/ possible.
When two noble, exalted natures meet
they comprehend each other at n word, 8
glance, touch. Sparks may occasionally
| tly, but they are never low nor mean.
never read the passage in Shakespeare
wherein Brutus and Cassius quarrel, but
am touched by the passion Of Cassius and
the more tempered fervor of Brutus.
Such beings as Rachel and Sa a Bern
hardt, who come cleaning like brilliant
fiery comets along our sky, are exceedingly
rare, though there are many of kindred ma
ture, who keep the keen sword of the spirit
hidden, which, wearing through the scab'
bard, hurts most of all.