The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
The Beauty Which Survives.

There is no denying the power of
beauty, and the person who is insenshle
to its charm is either an idiot or def
cient in the higher mental qualities of q
well-balanced mind. A beautiful face
who has not one treasured away in
the storehouse of memory? Such face
may live in the actual realities of the
present, or among the dreams of the
past, a pale phantom called up now and
then in the thinking, reflective moments
of life. Yes, every man and woman
have their ideals of beauty, or have had
them. Beautiful faces and beautiful
forms have led men to make all sacYi-
fees. To win them they have dared
death at the lannon's mouth have
sought for wealth in the dens and caves
of earth and sea, and have essayed to
become heroes in thousand ways.
Beauty, to the eyes of many men, is the
most potent of all talismen. 1t lures
and attracts when all other charms are
lost sight of. There is a magic
i'll the brilliant eye, a rapture
about the vermillion cheek, cap
tivation in golden or auburn or
raven ringlets, which to the super
fetal gaze of wife-hunters outshine the
hidden glories of mind or soul. Many
a man has risked his happiness for life
on the fair features of lovely woman,
and many have realized when too late
that nature has bestowed other gifts
| which are even more essential to happi-
ness than the mere glare of personal
charms. For after all that can be said
of beauty in its myriad forms, man
realizes its intensest glow in the face of
woman. The beauties of art may charm
for the moment, but for continual and
lasting solace man turns to woman.
Woman well understands the secret of
| her power, and courts beauty, if it
comes not naturally, by a thousand
| little devices known to the sex. She
would rather have been born beautiful
than rich, since to man beauty has more
attraction than money. However, as
all women are not blessed with beauty,
does not nature offer them compensa-
ton for its loss? Is there not beauty
of mind and heart which will survive
| the withered rose ON the cheek, the
lustre of the eye or the symmetry and
grace of mere physical attraction? 1t
may be true that many beautiful women
do combine the higher graces of mind
and soul, but not always. The beauty
of the human countenance fades away
with few years of strife and trouble,
| but mental and spiritual beauties live
on to the end. While many man has
led miserable life by coveting and
winning beautiful face, it is rarely, if
ever, the case that the matrimonial ex-
istence is embittered by highly devel-
oped intellectual and heart graces.
The woman who has the beauty of mind
and heart as her portion need not envy
the more attractive of her sisters who
have nothing else to recommend them
TO masculine favor except mere charms
of person. She may not find so many
admirers, but they are apt to be of a
better and more appreciative class.
There is beauty which NAV be ac-
CURED. The mind may be polished and
the heart trained to high and holy
thoughts and purposes. And the polish
OF mind and soul will make even n
homely face seem attractive to those
who can distinguish between external
and internal charms. So nature is inst
In its compensations, for while beantv
OF person may be denied to some, they
may possess the higher and more dur
able attr&ctiveness OF mental and
spiritual sort Columbus Sun.
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