The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-19
Most Attractive Women.

Where are women most attractivep
On the street, on the stage, in the ball
room, at church or at home! Women
are seen at other places and under 9TH
err conditions, but this query is intended
to cover only a few distinctive roles that
women assume in societyas now organ
lied. More women are seen on the
street than anywhere else. That is, the
greatest number of different men see
the greatest number of different women
on the street, or rather in street cos
tune, for they may see them in a
Broadway bus, or on steamboat, or
on the elevated railroad, or on a street.
car. A woman in street costume is
very different looking creature from
woman in stage costume, or in ball
dress, or in home wrapper. Not only
are there striking contrasts in the mat
ter of dress, but in the matter of per-
sonal bearing as well, and as an object
Ia be looked at, criticised and admired,
a lady walking along Fifth avenue in
front of the Fifth Avenue hotel is a
wholly different being from the lady
who agonizes in mimic tragedy or
dances pas seul, 1t is in the street
that the whole appearance of woman
becomes most effective. There you see
hat dress, shoes, gloves, parasol, as
well as the face. The view is general
ly transitory and often deceptive. And
yet with these advantages how seldom
it is that you see really handsome wo-
man on the street. Of all the hundreds
that you will meet on a fair afternoon
in a walk from Thirty-thrd street to
Fourteenth street or Broadway, how
many are there that are really pretty?
| suppose thought like this has pop
ped into the minds of great many peo-
pie, and always with an accompanying
feeling of disappointment. When on
dress parade, as most women are who
go out on pretty afternoon, the female
part of mankind is not at its best
There are too many things that are
needful to make up the full require
ment In some of these woman is al
most certain to fall short. Suppose she
has pretty face but too much paint on
it? That spoils her as complete beau
ty. Suppose she has pretty face but
a bad form, which is fully revealed
from the waist up by the tight-titting
dresses they wear nowadaysP Suppose
she has pretty face but has badly
fitting dress, or a rundown shoe, or
soiled gloves, or an unbecoming hat, or
colors in her costume that are not har-
monious? And suppose she has bad
walk? Suppose she j rks heavily along
like crawtish that moves backward, or
lopes along like a horse a canterp
Don't you see how many things are to
be taken into consideration when you
the street, That is whyyou sometimes
see face like dream as it passes you
and you think that it is a heavenly Wis
ion; but when you see it better, and |
see more than the face-in other words, !
when you have the complete woman be-
fore you-ninety-nine times out of |
hundred there will be something turn |
up that spoils the picture. After all |
there are but few women who dress |
well. No woman dresses well unless |
she has some original conception of
what is becoming to her. No woman
dresses well who submits herself entire
ly to the ideas of somebody else who
makes business of dressing people
The most perfected art is not at all |
commercial. an character, trades
takes away the freshness of every good |
idea Well, of course the more a
woman is to be dressed the more mis-
takes will happen and the greater the
number of possible incongruities. SO
there is good reason why women, as
you meet them on the street, are disap-
pointing. The very elaborateness with
which they clothe themselves is the
source of those very defects that rob
them of many charm--NeO York
World