The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-07-26
HOW TO STAY GooD-LooKING.

For any woman, or matron, past
youth, who hears the leaves begin to
drop, and sees the roses curl in the
warm summer of her life-this chapter
is written. 1t is natural and we'll that
with the decay of bloom and outward
charm there should be a lessening of
quick feeling, an amiable Indifference
to the homage that youth covets eager
Ily. The woman of--who dares FIJI in
the age ?-the woman who finds the faint
lines on her cheek and the pallor creep
ing to her lip should have learned and
tasted many things in her life--so many
that she can appraise the value of all,
and finding none of lasting worth, re-
sign them contentedly, with a little sigh
not for what they were, but for what
they were not. She should have loved,
and if possible, have been loved, though
it is Of less matter. The experience,
the wisdom, the selErenunciation come
through loving, not through any reward
of love. 1t is well for her, too, if she
can accept the compliment Of her afiec-
ton, and find out Of what mutable ele-
ments it is made its fervor and forget
fulness its devotion, often eclipsed and
as often surprising with its fresh strength
weak where we trust it most, and
standing proof where we disdainfully
expect its fall. Such is the love Of
man. 1t is a riddle learning which has
cost gray hairs on tender temples, tho
roses from many checks 1t is our ira
dition that love makes or mars wo-
mans life; but / have yet to learn that
it does not exert an equal though silent
power over the lot of men. BE that,
as it may, woman in love is far more
beautiful than one out Of il, and this is
true if the love lasts to three score.
Let women, if they would remain
charming, keep by all means their hold
on love, their faith in romance. The
power of feeling gives vitality and in
terest to faces long after their first flush
has passed. Speaking as a matter Of
fact, this is the case, for emotion has a
livelier power over the blood than even
the sun has, and the miracle Of love in
making many a plain girl pretty is TO
be referred to the stimulating effects Of
happiness on the circulation. If you
would preserve any inspiration in your
looks, beware how you repress emotion.
Cultivate not the signs OF it, but emo
tion itself, for the two things are very
distinct. Suffer yourself to be touched
and swayed by noble music aod passion
To do this, place yourself often under
the best Influences. There may be pl-
thos enough in the rendering Of Io1r
little girls song at the piano to stir ten
derly chords Of feeling hat we're growing
dull for want Of fire. The rose of morn
ing, the perfume of spring, have rap
many a middle-aged woman away 10
divine regions of fancy, from which she
came back with some of the dewy fresh
ness and smell lingering about her.
Youth has its daylong reveries while
its hands are at work We older ones
need to reserve with jealous care our
hours of solitude, in which the springs
ill up. The faces Of old beauties have
no charm beyond that Of feeling. |
have seen women who we're reputed the
beauties Of our large cities twenty yeats
ago, and they we're well preserved; but
in most cases they we're mere masks in
wax. The pearly teeth, the
small Grecian features, the soft, fine
hair and regular eyes, were left, but
the brow had learned neither to weep
or smile; the lips we're composed, and
might have been mute for all the ex-
that replaced their lost Grim
SON. One might adore the wasted beau
" of the Duchess of Devonshire, ''worn
5y the agitations of brilliant and ro-
mantle life" for the ERE and kindness
hat lit even its death pillow, and the
Josephine Of Malmaison, with eyes al.
gays eloquent Of tears, wins no less
devotion than the Empress at sains
Cloud, confessed the loveliest woman Of
France.