The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-23
OUR BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
Fashion Lest Between Blonde and Bru-
nette LONELINESS.
From the New York Journul,

From the New York Journul,
In Paris, more than in New York or any
other great city, there's decided fashion
in beauty as well as in dress. which changes
as regularly as do the seasons, and which
sometimes takes very queer and curious
freaks. For instance last spring the type
of beauty that was all the rage was termed
the Daniel Gabriel Rossetti style" This
type of beauty is assuredly one of the
most peculiar known. 1t was originated
by the Princess de Sagan, who Is great
leader of fashion in Paris, and who ap-
pesred in her box at the opera one evening
gotten up in the wonderfully striking
Daniel Gabriel Rossetti style" The
most noticeable feature of this style of
beauty is the hair, which is dyed green,
and arranged in pyramid fashion on the
top of the head. Strange to say. the green
hair, though, of course, unnatural, is very
pretty and odd. 1t is dyed the most deli
cate and lovely shade of green known,
namely Nile green. The complexion that
goes with this hair must be like soft,
slightly blushing peach, all cream and
white. The eyes are black or brown, the
lips their natural color, and the eyebrows
dyed to match the hair Floating gowns
white N color, and composed of airy.
fairy tulle, or faille, are always worn with
this type OF beauty. Every woman in
Paris has the mania for appearing like a
Daniel Gabriel Rossett beauty for a
while but at present in Paris, which, by
the way, Victor Hugo calls the centre 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 variety is the
spice of life.
In New York, for the past two seasons,
there has been great rivals existing be-
tween the loving blonde and darling
brunette beauties. The war still RACES
furiously, and it is hard to tell at the
present moment which is to come out
victorious, and whether the blonde beau
ties 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 brunttes as we have IN
New York. A real blonde has light hair
with streaks OF. gold through it, ewes that
look like wild violets, complexion rare
and white, with delicate flush on the
cheek, and light eyebrows the celor of
the hair True blondes never have dark
eyebrows.
II woman has all the above require
ments that go to make up a blonde, and
dark or black eyebrows, her beauty comes
under another type known as the Evan
Dyke blonde" of which Lady Mander-
vile is one of the most stunning EXAMPLES
we have ever seen. Her hair is Won
lertul yellow, her complexion fair as q
| lily, and her eyes black as sloes, with
eyebrows to match. The ''Van Dyke
blonde" is type of beauty not often
seen. 1t is considered by far the more
distinguished type.
| Although every lady knows what Is
requisite to be a true brunette, there are
still a few who are not even educated up
to it. and who call woman who has q
dark, clear skin, "cheeks like roses and
lips like the cherry" hair purplIsh black,
and dark grey eyes, q brunette. No
woman is true brunette who has no
very brown or very black eyes.
| What is known as the Irish type" of
beauty is one of the loveliest. No eye is
SO blue, SO large, SO expressive, or sc
heavily fringed as that of the possessor o.
this type; no hair is so glossy and darl
and heavy; no complexion SO rosy and
healthful, and to people in general this
type is the most bewitching and fascin
/ ating
A type of beauty that has had its dsy
but of which We see representatives occa-
sionally, is what is known as the STRAW
berry blondes. Brick red hair, blut
eyes and fair, pink complexions, are thu
accompaniments of this type. The .'yel-
low blonde" is another type which il
rapidly going out of fashion, and yellow
blondes" are seldom seen now except OF
the stage. Fanny Davenport is an exam
pie of this type.
Here in America we have mixture 0
all types, as we have mixture of al
nations. The true American type o
beauty. however, is neither of the blond
nor brunette, Van Dyke nor Irish, DAME
Gabriel Rosetti, strawberry or yellow
blonde types. The true American beaut,
has hair soft and brown, eyes of gray O
blue, complexion rather white, clear anC
devoid of rich color, and features not b,
any means as regular as these of the othe
TYPES of beauty, but possessing far NOR
expression.