The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-23
WOMAN GOSSIP.
Clara Belle Discourses on Girls and
How Their Beauty is at
Discount.
Much Ado, but no Fee for the Long.
Suffering Dcntist---The Parsee
Girl.
BEAUTY AT A DISCOUNT.


One of the inequalities between sexes
that | bitterly complain of is the bare
facedness imposed on women by nature,
writes Clara Belle. If man has BIC
Roman nose, he lets a fierce mustache
grow under it, and becomes q typical
military man, Notwithstanding the fact
that hidden by his Napoleonic goatee
is a miserable, puny, retreating chin.
If his nose is q pug, he gives it all pos
sible prominence by shaving clean in
its immediate vicinity, growing some
side-whiskers away back on his fat
checks, and SO producing the likeness
of the solid business man. In case his
features are nothing in particular, ex-
cept that the lines of fifty years are deep
around his mouth, he conceals them
under a heavy mustache, and passes
for youngish sort of bachelor until
time ought to have made him grand.
father. Now, in spite of all the
calumniouS accusations of falsity in the
matter Of our adornment, the faces of
my sex have to pass for just about
what they are worth. We may do
something to improve hues in skin and
hair, but the outlines of our visages
can not be materially altered. We
may sweeten our mouths with care
full expression of amiability, or keep
our lips shaped in q bewitching sug-
gestiveness of kisses; but, as likely as
not, in attempting these mobilities of
countenance, we merely succeed III be-
coming grotesque.
BY the way, did you ever hear of
such thing as beauty being objected
TO? Listen. | knew the keeper of an
acutely fashionable clearinghouse on
Murray Hill. The landlady is a
shrewd one, | can tell you. Any I'M
married and lone young woman who
gets board in that establishment must
show mighty clean pedigree, for no
risks are taken. Knowing this, | went
there with girl-the daughter of
western congressman-who desired
nice place to live in during q stay of
month or two in New York. l knew
that my assurance would satisfy the
landlady as to my friends respectable
ity, and so | was astonished by point
blank refusal to take her in.
But you've got vacant room, |
cxpostulated, "and you told me only
yesterday that you were very anxious
TO fill it.
True enough" said she, "but this
young lady is extremely beautiful.
There are five pretty girls in the house
now, and not single ugly one. 1t
wouldn' t ever do to add SO positive
beauty to my household
"Why?' demanded to be informed.
because it would set foolish people
to gossiping. An abundance of cOmely
girl boarders won't do for a house that
depends on escaping the merest breath
of Islander. No; | could love this dear
girl, but really you must excuse me
from boarding her.
\ word Of comfort for ugly girls. |
sincerely do not believe that pretty
face has anything to do with making a
belle. The attractive or repcllent
qualities are the principal causes.
Some Of the latter quality in girls are a
naughty demeanor, saying smart
things that make other people smart,
an idea that it is only necessary to be
civil to persons in a supposed higher
social scale than their own, and the
habits of contradicting and snubbing.
Most men have good deal of self-ap-
probation, which they do not care to
have disturbed by such causes. To he
attractive girl should be healthy, in
telligcnt, but not smart Indus
trious, amiable, cheerful, and willing
, to be pleased with small pleasures.
Such qualities will make even a plain
faced girl attractive, if not belle.
Regard once inspired by such girl
y lasts.