The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-25
handsome Sinners and Ugly
Saints.


~ VII rh Nature introduces her repre-
- ltatiye, saws leland Beauty l.
,ut error fitness. a. a Darwinian would
-4y and Ia thi- respect, too, the pre-em
utnce Of the auci. Mt Greeks was proba-
by the outcome Vt their general phy>l-
l.i aud men,al superiority to their lei
v-lnan, Though they themselves be-
Is 81 ID the existence u a chemical pan
cosmetic. IN the thai VI the arch quaca
1a-ilo>trU, II came out ;nat. during the
tV, ,e ears from laos -, he had rea-
.ized three millions fIaLc> from the sale
ui his Recipe for beauty, a recipe
ahich has been more eagerly searched tor
lhan the philosopher : stone, or the secret
VI longevity. Andreas tisalpinus made
the notable discovery that an ointment OF
crushed locuSts and mi.letoe-iuice would
treble the charms Of the iairest woman.
~ bar must | do TO become very beau
uiui?" the damse Il in Don Qulxore' asks
the enchanted Noors head. que sfus
op.y hoaroio-be yery continent. re
p1ts the head Paractlsu, recommends
meadow dew, gathered il the morning
while he May moon i on Tho increase
tud Npnlal-ne Inqutre> mo the habIts ~
tie most we'll ttyorod tnbc. 81 every
cu,"try. but cpnie>se> that the problem
j rather an evasive one the coast-dwcl
-, o. sweden icing a. distinguished Tor
fh,,r comellpess as the highlander> 81
A,a-on. and the Normandy cider drink
er, DOT less than the Tuscan wlne-dliuk-
els. Ills only general Iule, however. still
holds good that out-door dwellers are
never wholly ill-tavored, nor indoor wor
kcrs altogether lovely and we might say
the same of alcohol drinkers and total
abstainers: the schnapps-worshiping ma
tives of the Tyroie,e highlands make
amends BY their active outdoor life, as
Lowell factory girls by their teeto;alism.
Ti,ele is a good deal in race. though.
".IageL satt; non .iagL,' Pope Stephen
IL wrote more than a Thousand years ago
to Archbishop Cuthbert, who had sent
hiD a batch Of Anglo Saxon neophytes,
aud a trace OF the same angelic tea,ures
nay sill be recognized among the Little
raeamufins OF many a SehlesXg olss
te,n coast village, where men suhsl>t on
o.andg. cheese, and sour rye-bread. Their
neighbors, the P~omeranians, are a mantul
if pot celestial generation, anu, IN spite
1t ,hcir drea., moorland>, very foul Of
on door p ets. Iut father east Nature
>necumb, TO art. and the northern Rus
-,a.s are about as O~utrdgeOus!y uuple-
possessing a. ndoos- lite ana "a combina
] II o! all VICES could nane the image OF
- tre tor. EAtrene meet, though
anu thtir Emperor has the honor OF con-
rautIng Twelve regiments OF the most
eo,t'se men ui the le>ent world-the
iauct cuirassiess ct The body guard, re
c 4 ed IN the highlands Of Lesghla and
ID hes,,u Nea ~ all the nat.ves of the
Cpurasus have that fatal gilt of beauty !
which made ,hGlr and The lavorne nun
ting g,ound OF the haiem-agentS, aud
this save lhe.t Ear a pre'eKt tor treating
1t a a } u:klsh dependency. But no SO
c,al degradation could coun eraet the
cnu,biDed Influence OF the Caucasian
noun,aIneers who are te.oIlars BY religion
aud ve2e,d. lans by rreierence-hgs, bon-
BARLEY ca ,cs, ana milk, being the
s,a oles O.. their diet. They are physically
Sell naue men, Tor their language proves
thai lhe,r ancestors were Turania0s-
ii 5, cousins OF the owlfaced nomads of
the Mooeoliau steppe.
Pefue.I believes that 'the study Of
on, sIognomy has been neglected since
men be- III to neglect .helr good looks, TO
which he classic nations attached an inn
portance winch we can nowadays hardly
comprehend" Nlnce Pernetti confines
his remaIh &c his own sex we may plead
gully to his Indictment, and it is true
that he aDcients combined their heroics
w,,h a good deal of Beau Brummeiism.
He abuses The right OF a man 10 be
ugly. Madame.de Slael said to one of her
a Q nners but the ancient G-eet.s denied
bat tight altogether, and their lnuoler
IN this respect seems to AVE sdr-
,-ed anv,hing one could mention of con-
temp prary nations, though it may be true
,iau ire military academies of Prussia
aGd SaXony maze hoMeilness a bar TO
admission Even Plato, in his t'Repub-
JIG advises his lawgiver TO oppose all
raUrs thai might tend to lower the sran~
"a d Of physical aesthetics Ippy,us be
AID Socrates as il he had caught A pick
poc~et: lay. the Spartan Cerontes fined
one q their hinge i1r counting d uhlcN
Ct lady, because they could not permit
bim 10 atfilct the state with a raca of
stumpy men. CallicIates is mention
ed simply because he was ,he .aiiest
Of all tie Greeks who iougrt on ,hat
day and Plutarch speaks Of a save
whom Meas set free for Winoing
The applause Of all Athens in a play
Tor religious festival where he enac Ell
he rot # The Bacchus hiethy,tes: ana
even more amazing is what Straoo tells
Us .. one 'hliippus. who joined in he
* pedltIon Of Duricus against Erik. aud
who. after having been slain and stripped
by the peopl3 o. Segeste, was taken up
and grandly buried by his foes, long after.
rorsai,ed rs q ,i~eDttg01, OF account
of ills great beauty.
Bot The n1 adnirari is not always a
voluntary virtue De iagl,y, Ia his ac
Ut a visit to the eastern tribes Of ,
ll~cassia describes the horrible siaht of
bauie field in the roc y valley 0. Halls
an where The day DC; ore six Russian
regiments had been routed BY the ..esg-
h,an mouu,alneel-. "Bu the victory J,
dearly bought says he in the
bed 81 the river, and all along the Meth
iii si.ore, We found the unburried bodies
the heroes who had died in defense of
country. R-Was overcome 5y
the sight, and as.ed rs to h4r.. .on bu,
the outskirts OF a chestnut grove that
the valley of a tributary Geek he
suddenly stople", and soon We wele al
assembled around the body of a Lesghian
warrior, who had fallen. with il bullet :
through his head, at the foot Of IA shat
rec. The mau wore the green scarf
Of his tribe, and, t.om tbs prof lsion of
ornaments Oh his belt and his neck, seem- +;
I'd to have been a chieitaiu among his
Yet it was not his grotes
lue attire. AZ his form, which was that
IF a Hercules, whi4h held u ~spellbound
lit was his face. a face which in manly
exceeded anything E'hidias or
Fhorwaldsen ever expressed 10 marble. :
We stood around almost im~m9yahle. a.
men will belcf. 2 phenomenon they may
dice aud no more. No one spo,e a
word. III! Surgeon H,rbo.t, u The Cha,- ;
cure d Ar que. broke the silence ha'
~ his head I'll 4 Of, messieurs
90 fmtuge de Dir we C4ud before
he IMAGE Of q
The Duke de isohan used 10 say that +,
1t had pleased Providence to put some