Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-01
Society Beauties.

To plain man the motives which in
duce the spoiled beauty to permit her
photograph to be exhibited in shop
windows and stared at by shop-boys
and idle apprentices are inscrutable,
remarks The London Globe. However
charitably he is inclined to Judge her,
he needs must attribute it to some
form of vanity. This, however, is a
question for herself, her parents, or,
most often, her husband If they do
not object, we can but be thankful for
for the reflection of her beautiful
cOuntenance among the hurrying
crowds of the Strand and the elegant
idlers of Bond street. The amorous
clerk may fill an album with specimens
or female beauty and dwell in raptures
over the pictured clips which are for
others" The philosophic student has
the opportunity of dispassionately
balancing different styles of beauty.
And yet the social beauty comes peril
Ously close to the professional beauty.
An old-fashioned man is apt to regard
with most favor that female loveliness
which woos retirement. What is per-
haps more likely to touch the society
beauty, marrying men of late have
shown something of a similar revulsion
of feeling. They are not found seek
ing bride in the glare of the ball
room, and admiring her whom many
tongues commend. What the poets
term the woodland violet, "retired as
morning dew" is now more to their
taste. Doubtless the fair sex is quite
prepared to meet this new tactics of
the men. In the meantime the beauty
of society, amid such revolutionary
ideas, is scarcely in her place in all the
Photographic shop windows.
In all ages, however, people have in
dulged certain amount of curiosity
respecting the chief beauties who have
for the time being fascinated the lords
of creation. One of the most pathetic
passages in the Iliad dwells upon the
feelings of the old men at Troy as they
saw Helen, respondent in her beauty,
seek the walls. She was the cause of
unnumbered woes to the city, but still
her grace won their hearts. Doubtless
Cleopatra was the admiration of all
the galley slaves in her fleet To
come nearer our own times, Lely with
his pencil and crowd of authors with
their pens have celebrated the frail
beauties of restoration. There is,
therefore, some justification for the
longing of our society beauties that
their charms should be duly appraised.
Outside the circles frightened by their
presence, they would graciously per-
NIT some faint rays of their light to
warm the fancy of thousand un-
known admirers. So beauty has ever
led the multitude captive at it's chari-
ot-wheels. In this respect, therefore,
we are duly grateful for the boon.
These images of female loveliness, op-
posite which crowd of idle gazers
obstruct the pathway, are another evil
dence of the philanthropic feelings OF
the upper classes. 1t is thus that
wandering peri may peep though the
gates of paradise. A story is told of
fashionable curate who, when told
that the ladies looked at him, ex-
claimed: "Let them look and die!'
With more kindly hearts, the fashion
able, beauties of the day expose their
photographs in the shop-windows to
the gaze OF all beholders, that the lat
ter may pass by enraptured.-Loncion
Globe.