The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
Cures for Uglin ess.
the American Queen.

looks we can make u looks very much
what we please. We cannot avoid hay
ing some sort of dress and some sort OF
manners. Let us make them pleasant.
We all wish to be loved by somebody,
Our lovers and our friends are put
from us by many repellant influences;
by ill-will, by cruelty, by indifference,
Ivy ugliness, by stupidity, by dirt, by
inability to contribute anything to the
circle about us. No one will deny that
dirt, stupidity, ill-wil, indifference are
durable. So is ugliness. What is ugli-
ness? A question of fashion. One
year things are voted ugly the next
year are run after. Abstract ugliness
is a mystery, perhaps a myth.
Dull colors are usually unattractive,
another name for ugly perhapsbecause
they recall unconsciously murkey i'm
ages, monotonous associations, not sun
light and brightness. Again, sudden
and irregular lines are commonly dis
liked, just because they are irregular"
They jerk and unsettle the customary
directions of the eye, as court hand and
the early angular black-letter pain and
tire the sight used to rounded forms,
But if We lay down a general rule that
sudden and irregular angles are ugly,
whether in faces, costume or caligraphy,
we must leave a broad margin for fash
ion-the reaction of taste. After too
many smooth lines, Irregularities re-
lieve and please, and, as we said, alb
stract ugliness may be a myth. We be-
leye an absolutely ugly woman is i'm
possible.
Let her whom her sisters call ugly
examine herself closely. She must have
some points" Besides her plain and
shapeless face, has she an ill-shapen
hand? q figure that no corset will inn
prove? a foot hat disheartens every
boot-maker? Can this dress-maker do
nothing for her? Cannot this quality
be concealed, that Misunderstanding
less offensive brought forward a little?
Can the dentist do nothing for those
yellow fangs, the scissors nothing for
those nails? Cannot some little artful
pad equalize those crooked shoulders
some raised heel that limping gait
some occulist that painful, spasmodic
obliqnity of %rision2 Some powder.
wash OF paint Get us call Q spade a
spade)-that last resource of unbeara-
bic misfortune-cannot some paint lover
that purple stain, that frightful scar on
cheek andneck?
"No woman is ugly when she is
dressed said the gallant Lord Ches-
terrified. Nor lis any bird with it's plum
age. But pluck it, Pluck the bird of
paradise itself, and learn a lesson-that
renowned fowl owes eyerything5to its
dress, and we cannot say that Of hui
manity, however ill-favored. Our gifts
are manifold, our chances various and
our hopes endless. 1t should not be
beneath us to attend to a plumage,
and all the other little n~iceties that add
so much TO the enjoyment of life.
A plain woman with any wisdom will
make the most Of any good point In her
physique and as little as she can of her
worst points. For instance, if she has a
bad, coarse complexion, she viii not
exhibit more square feet of the material
than are needful. Square feet ? nay, nor
square inches. She will not wear low
dresses, nor very short sleeves. She
will carefully select hues in her dress
that improve, not iniure, her own natar-'
al coloring, and will wear dresses high
to the throat, Just enough trimmed with
lace to give richness without confusion.
to the lines Of her toilet. Nor will she
wear that lace quite white. Only
against an ivory skin does quite white
lace tell prettiIy. A woman with q
poor complexion will tint her lace with
brown ttea and coffee are good dyes;
o. with the predominant colors in her
dress. Thus she will get the soffening
effects Of broken color at the edges With
out the risk OF calling attentiou to her
own blemishes.
A very brown woman, however, may
make her dark skin point Then she
viii use white lace, and all colors that
enhance herown deep coloring.
A plain woman with q bad figure can
adopt many little harmless devices-at
least as harmless as borrowed locks and
teeth, which no one now condemns.
She can borrow a little embonpoint
from the friendly cotton tree; she can
swathe in a handsome sleeve the too
thin arm or too sharp shoulder which
detracts from any lingering merit She
may have. She can hide her long, nm
calmly figure with 4 short, classical
waist; or she can mend the cirurn-l like
shape with 4 corset only sufficient To In
duce a feminine curve Athin arm may
be hidden by a richly-draped sleeve. OF
improved by thickIsspine d close one.
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