The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-07-14
beauty Rules.

"Rule One.-A womsn's power in the
worlds measured by her power to please.
Whatever she may wish to accomplish
she will make it best by pleasing. A
woman's grand social aim should be to
please.
"And let me tell you how this to be
DONE" Sophia said, putting her paper
down for "a moment. "A woman can
please the eye by her appearance, her
dress, her face and her figure. She can
please the ear by studying the art of
graceful elocution, not hard to any of
us. for by nature we speak with finer
articulation than You. She can please
the mind by cultivating her own-so
far, at least, as to make her a good
listener and as much further as she will
she can please the fancy by ladies' wit,
of which all of us have share. She
can please the heart by amiability. See
here" she continued, growing graver,
"you have the key of my system.
Beauty Of person is only one feature of
true beauty. Run over these qualities:
See how small part personal beauty or
the freshness of youth plays here. L
want you to observe this for my, art
would consist not in making woman at
tractive that are openly pretty and
young, but in showing them that youth
and prettiness, though articles of beauty,
are neither the only nor the indispensable
articles"
Rule Two. -Modesty is the ground
on which all woman's charms appear
to best advantage. In manners, dress,
conversation, remember always that
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Hardly likely to be-" murmured.
els it?"
Understand me-" answered Sophia,
briskly. 81 mean modesty in very
extended sense. There is now DAYS
tendency in women to rebel against old
fashioned modesty. The doctrine of
liberty is spreading among us, for which
L thank Cod" Sophia said (she was the
oldest little mixture of Tory and Wing
and Radical ever compounded on this
eccentric earth). "But the first effects
of that doctrine on our minds are little
confusing. We are growing more indie.
pendent and more individual. Some of
us fancy that to be modest is to be old
fashioned, and of course we want the
newest fashion in all things. MAIN
taip," Sophia said, growing little
warm, as if she fancied L might argue
back" maintain that modest woman
is the reply of my sex to brave man
you can no more have u true woman
without modesty than true man without
courage. But remember, [ use the word
inodesty in high sense"
Just what L was going to ask" I
said.
"Not prudery," she added. "Prudery
is to modesty what brag is to bravery.
Prudery is on the surface modesty is in
the soul. Rosalind in her boys suit is
delightfully."- modest, but not" Sophia
said, with twinkle in her eye" not
very prudish. is she ?"
L assented, and thus made way for
Rule Three.-Always dress up to
your age or a little beyond it. Let your
person be the youngest thing about you,
not the Oldest"
Rule Four.-Remembe that what
women admire in themselves is seldom
what men admire in them"
In nine drawing-rooms out Of ten, "
Sophia said, seeing me give look of in
quiry as she read this article, miranda
or Cordelia, as novel heroines, would he
voted bores. Women would say, I'VE
utterly decline to accept these watery
girls as typical of us we want smart
ness and life.' don't really care much
for Miranda or Cordelia myself. Now
this seems to me to caution us against
trusting too implicitly or too far our
own notions about ourselves. Another
source of misunderstanding comes from
the novel writer's. We are the novel
readers, and the novelist is forced to
write heroines to suit our taste. He
does not want to offend us. Thus it
comes about that even the male novel
ist is too often only depicting women's
women. after all. And 1 believe scores
of modern girls are seriously misled
for this very reason. They believe they
are finding ont what men think of them,
when in truth they are reading their
own notions handed back to them under
a pretty disguise"
''Rule Five.-Women's beauties are
seldom mems beauties.
Which" she remarked, els another
form of what l said just now, only here
speak of personal beauty. My obser-
walton is, that if ten men and ten women