Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-22
THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN.
A Mixture of Many Nationalities, She is the
Most Charming of All.

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In Paris. more than in New York or
any other great city, there is decided
fashion in beauty as well as dress,
which changes rs regular as do the
seasons, and which sometimes takes
very queer and curious freaks. For in
stance, last spring the type of beauty
that was all the style was what was
termed the Daniel Gabriel Rossetti
style. This type of beauty is assur-
edly one of the most peculiar known.
1t was originated by the Princess de
Sagan, who is great leader of fashion
IN Paris, and who appeared in her box
at the opera one evening gotten up in
the wonderfully striking ''Daniel Ga
briel Rossetti style" The most notice
able feature of this style of beauty is
the hair, which is dyed green, and ar
ranged in a pyramid fashion on the top
of the head. Strange to say, the green
hair, though of course looking unnat-
ural, is very pretty and odd. 1t is dyed
the most delicate and lovely shade of
green known, namely, Nile-green. The
complexion that goes with this hair
must be like a soft, slightly-blushing
peach, all cream and white. The ewes
are black or brown, the lips their nat
ural color, and the eyebrows dyed to
match the hair. Floating gowns, white
in color, and composed of airy, fairy
'ulle, or faille, are always worn with
this type of beauty. Every woman in
Paris had the mania for appearing like
Daniel Gabriel Rossetti beauty for
a while, but at present in Paris, which
by the way Victor Hugo calls the ''cen-
ter OF civilization" green hair reigns
no more, and Dame Fashion dictates
that her daughters shall now appear in
as many different styles of beauty as
possible, believing, no doubt, that ''va-
riety is the spice of life"
In New York, for the past two seas
Ons. there has been great rivalry be-
tween the lovely blonde and darling
brunette beauties. The war still wages
furiously, and it is hard to tell at the
present moment which is to come out
victorious, and whether blonde beauties
or their darker sisters will lead fashions
this winter, and which will be the more
popular. We do not often see in one
metropolis as many real blondes and
as many true brunettes as we have in
New York. A real blonde has LIGHT
hair with streaks of gold through it,
eyes that look like wild violets. COM
plexion rare and white, with a delicate
flush on the cheek, and light eyebrows
the color of the hair. True blondes new
er have dark eyebrows.
If a woman has all the above require
mentS that 90 to make up blonde, and
dark or black eyebrows, her beauty
! comes under another type known as the
''Van Dyke blonde" of which Lady
Vaudeville is one of the most striking
examples we have ever seen. Her hair
is a wonderful yellow, her complexion
fair as lily, and her eyes black as
sloes, with eyebrows to match. The
Evan Dyke blonde is type of beauty
not often seen. 1t is considered by far
the more distingue type.
Although almost everybody knows
what is requisite to be a true brunette,
there are a few who are not even yet
educated up to it, and who call a wo-
man who has dark, clear skin, ''cheeks
like roses and lips like the cherry"
hair purplish black, and dark gray
ewes, a brunette. No woman is true
brunette who has not very brown or
very black eyes.
What is known as the ''IriSh type"
of beauty is one of the loveliest. No
eve is so blue, SO large, SO expressive
or so heavily fringed as that of the pos
SCISSOR of this type; no hair is so glossy
and dark and heavy; no complexion so
rosy and healthful, and to people in
general this type is the most bewitch-
ING and fascinating.
a type of beauty that has had its day,
but of which we see representatives oc-
casionally. is what is known as the
''strawberry blondes" Brick-red hair,
blue eyes and fair, pink compilations
are the accomplishments of this type
The ..vel.ow blonde is another type
which is rapidly going out of fashion,
and ''yrllow blondes" are seldom seen
now except on the stage. Fanny Da-
Venport is an example of this type.
The daughters of Spain and Italy are
the best examples of the brunette type
of beauty; those of England and Ger
many of the blonde type; those of
Southern Ireland of the Irish type,
and those of Greece of the Van Dyke
type.
Here in America we have a mixture
of all types, as we have a mixture of all
nations. The true American type of
beauty, however, is neither of the
blonde nor brunette, Van Dyke nor
Irish, Daniel Gabriel Rossetti, straw
berry or yellow blonde types, The true
American beauty has hair soft and
brown, eyes of gray and blue, complex
ion rather white, clear and devoid of
rich color, and features not by any
means as regular as those of the other
types of beauty, but possessing far more
expression.-COr N Y Journal.
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