Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-03
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

This spontaneous acknowledgment is general
ly accorded to the most perfect physical speci-
mems of natures skill. Such cases are Ia
mentally exceptional, however, and in the
ordinary routine of existence among all its
grades we SO. women achieving admiration
through the comeliness of some feature and
the symmetry of some member, rather than
for the combined embodiment of all beauty.
Where the exquisite dominance of feshhood
is manifest, It's rather apt to be at the sacri-
fee OF brain in its finest intellectual develop
ment, and yice versa, Mrs. Harris says. But
with all respect to this acidulous oracle
therein is beauty which transcends
and outlives the other-which can
be taken out of the world
to some one of the promised many mansions
instanter, and not left to glut the worm, and
undergo the various phases of nothingness-
until the last trump WHITES its pristine shape.
This is a novel sOlace for the plain possessor
of brain, but it holds.
Hamlet can handle the empty shell of
Yorick's intellect, and muse and moralize,
and query of its evanishment, but its beauty
is beyond Disagreement and the indignity of
A2AS NASSo"eS0 tONSu3 do AC Wipes lib pIluCcly
and melancholy fingers, in putting away
the skull. A story comes authenticated from
the subterhuman and ferocious commune. A
| misguided victim whose mental endowment
was nevertheless noble made superb speech
| just before he was shot. After the fatal bullet
had done its work, the officer in charge of the
| execution rubbed the toe of his boot in the
brains which had scarcely ceased to act, with
the remark, "and that's what he made his
| thrilling speech with" But the divine
| essence, the untouchable beauty
OF that brain had returned to its source, be
yond the profaning contact of hand, foot, or
scalpel.
Well, to return to our muttons, or women,
as the case is, many of them make flourish
| ishing show of beauty on one good feature,
or on some passably correct members. Some
| times caprice is made fashionable as for par
| ticular tint of hair, of complexion, or for
| some whim of outline. Straightway the prefer
ence is proclaimed, and the feminine majority
| goes over to the absurdity. Hour glass
| waists 60 out, and big ones come in. Bleached
| hair brings about the requisition for blonde
| tressess and eyebrows, and lashes are stippled
| on any complexion to match or contrast with
the hair. Artificial moles are adjusted so as
| to enhance the simulated fairness of skin, and,
alack, with all the devices the original model
or physical presentment becomes confessed,
| turned from its natural aspect, and is scarcely
! more than continuance for the exhibition of
Protean skill.
Think you all this ingenious adaptation of
artificial aids improves their looks? They be-
lieve SO, and aside from their own satisfaction
the meretricious exercise keeps the dear crea-
| lures on the qui rive to spot each other for
proficiency in the same beauty compelling
processes. 1t almost borders on distraction
when some one is SO accomplished and deli
cate of touch in the self decorating process
that she fairly divides the doubt with nature.
This is tantallzing triumph, which is always
borne with meekness by the successful suS-
pecte.
Why, the other day in IngersoN's store a
woman sat on a stool at the counter, as if it
were sort of tripod, curiously inspected by
feminine trio, who scanned and wondered
and s peculated and disputed as to the extent
| her very apparent charms were real. And she?
Didn't she just look as if such scrutiny was
the very pleasure of her life. Lady Dedlock
calculating the effect of her diamonds and fine
dress on the s'young man of the name of Cup
Ply" wasn't more calmly cognizant of the sit
uation than that imperturbable woman with
the big solitaireS in her ears, shedding such
high priced prsmatic hues on the daintily
tinted cheeks.
This prevalent infringement on the original
patent of looks is honored in the observance,
and in some shape has hand in the toilet of
the average woman of the period. Even the
followers of beauty unadorned prefer it ''craft-
lily qualified" where some touches would
give it more pronounced setting in relief
IT'S well.
You've seen women whose looks were unde
niably improved by a few def strokes of art,
who, having an artistic perception of some
bodily deficiencies, supplemented them with
GINNING hand. Or when time, the inevitible
despoiler, mars the soft, mellow finish which
is like caress to the eye, the whilom owner
mourns and mourns, and
then seeks to repair with whatever skill
SENS fttest, Seems, alas that's the word
There was q hint about the commonplace
pleban beauty which always looks the same,
and means the same to the average onlooker.
It is the comtodina pink and white dimpled
chubbiness, or the red and brown peachy ripe
ness which enthralled Tito, and Victor En-
manuel, who preferred his dear Rosina to
Victoria's daughter, the PrincesslM Mary. rejected
because she. twas fat enough to sit on all the
seven hills of Rome at once" said IL re
galantuomo with crushing candor.
If every organism breeds true to its kind.
and it does SO because double identity exists
in the parent to the child, there must be some
risk in these inverted arrangements, whether
they be legal or contraband OF ceremony.
Traits mental and physical will crop out
strangely intermingled in the second and third
removes. One will show in spite of all Undue
ing influences singular unreceptiyeness to
all refinement;-a coarse grain which cannot
be made to take on any abiding polish.
Externally the features will jostle each other
with more apparent discord. Acoarse mouth
Will belle promise of better things in the
shape and regard of the eye. A weak chin
will undo the decision expectant from the
nose, and trusty upper head. A clear, fine
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