River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-15
A MiIlEl'S RLIISHES.
Girls Who Never and Girls Who Always
Blush-The Blush which Greets Pro-

4 Blush-The Blush which Greets Pro-
i posal.
If Adolphus compliments Julia, and
her eyes brighten, her cheek burns,
that youth had better analyze his feel
ings toward her before compulsion is
/ brought to bear, says writer in the
/ London Star dard. And when she
changes color at a gay allusion to the
prudently to Withdraw a little and sur
/ .vey the damsel critically from a post of
observation. 1t is not easy for him to
| detect the most heartless imposture, if
he have the Independence becoming to
his years and sex, and she have the sa-
gacity, perhaps equally becoming to
hers. Art is very, long, as we know,
and in this department it stretches
in coils unbroken from the earl
lest date till now, 1t may he
that our enamelers use the methods by
which Jezebel painted her face, and
certainly our eoitfeurs employ the pro
cess by which Roman girls dyed their
hair over two centuries ago. 1t is prob
able that smaller arts connected with
4 their practices are not less long lived.
When loving youth sees reason to sus-
| pect that the complexion of his adored
is less naturalistic than technical, he
/. should not be accused of extravaganza
for buying penny mouse, nor of bru-
tally for letting it off in moment of
the warmest abandon. In generous
way, copious blushing is to be distrust
ed. For modesty ceases to be charm
when overactive, ceases, in fact, to be
itself, as moments reflection will
show. "To my mind, g says the Lieu
tenant in Sheridans play there's
| nothing on earth so impudent as an
everlasting blush" The tendency to
flush may arise also, and more com
monty does, perhaps to exaggerate self
consciousness "a foible hardly to be
recognized to an ingenious mind.
People see this instinctiyely when face
to face, but they do not always recog
nize the trait in description. A novel
list may secure general sympathy with a
glowing heroine, who would be inces-
sanity declared to knowing by half in
flesh and blood
4 maiden's blush, IN its proper place,
under proper circumstances, is one OF
the happiest efforts of nature. 1t is
often likened to a peach, but few will
deny, after the youthful enthusiasm for
fruit has passed, that in flavor it excels
any species oflpeach yet invented, saw
ing perhaps. the "early Stirling" That
fine variety may be brought to table in
perfection at any age when the most
precious bushes are still deficient in
aroma. But in this branch of horticul-
tural science the place where is almost
more important than the time when. A
young lady whose bushes fly to the
nose might almost as well cease to cul-
tivate them. They will never be brought
to that degree of finish which enables a
skillful and painstaking grower to ex-
hibit with reasonable chance of taking
prize, which is, we imagine, the uiti-
mate aim Of this, as of other pursuits.
As for the young lady who bushes
about the ears, she might as well blush
in her back hair for any points the ex-
erciso will gain her in competition.
But supposing that all be as it should
in color and place, that the opportunity
| is chosen with care, and the circumstan-
ces favorable, a well grown blush is
a lovely product. These conditions
occur moro frequently than might
be thought. Almost any man has
observed one blush at least which
struck him for a moment as a master
work He did not, perhaps, secure
| ~ - ha
universe, not even from his own family;
possibly their representations, or an
enlarged study of the subject, may
change his own views subsequently.
But the impression fingers. 1t may be
questioned, for it has been, whether
Young lady ought to blush when invited
to pronounce such a simple word as
"yes" or mo" The question is not put
to her, as rule, without simple warn
ing. She has been conscious for some
weeks or months or years that it would
come, and that she must reply. Was
ever damsel taken unprepared by de-
corous lover? "Yes" or even ''no" is not
difficult to say, unless the maiden STAN
mers, an infrmity for which the most
brutal would make allowance at the mo-
ment, and u very low tone will suffice.
But if there be one touch of nature that
shows all womanhood akin, it is blush
which greets proposal. Cynics may
declare that the alarm of modesty is
but one among a score of secret springs
but nobody heeds the cynies. Upon
the other hand indignant champions OF
the sex point out that men are not en-
barrassed in closing with a business
! proposal, and why, they ask should
girl be? We do not know; the subject
has not vet come within our puryiew.
Some NAV fancy that in the dim years
of long ago, when bIushing was invent
ed, this trial or test was appointed by
the Judge of female merit as last ex-
ercise which guided their decision. If
a girl does not blush her best then, she
stands out of the competitions hence
forward. The class is only open to
FLIES; widows have an exercise some
what analogous in the gentle tear.
Damsels there are, however, who
cannot blush. We are bound to be-
lieve it, though our own experience
would emphatically negative the asser-
ton. The simplest formula for testing
one of these exceptional cases has been
given by an expert. Get possession of
the young lady Immediately after in
PRODUCTION bring her to snug berth
under lea of the window curtains, or If
possible, plant of xanthosoma anti
quorum. Repeat hymn to her.
Talk of the Soudan. Then, with
fire in your eyes,, exclaim: Fly
with me, my hearts adoredl" We
have understood that this process
brings blush to the proudest
cheek-if it be capable of reddening-
and gives winning softness to the tone,
as the maiden leads you forth and refers
all subsequent questions to the foot
man. Still. the cold experience OF
science declares that some ladies will
resist even this trial. The blood which
should suffuse their lovely cheeks con-
centrates behind the eye, imparting
wierd glitter to that organ. The eccen-
tricity is curious, but not becoming.
Such ladies may pc pitied, but still
more their astonished admirers. When
genteel blush is expected, basilisk
gaze must be very disconcerting. But
there is case that is still more pain
fully deceptiYe-that of the girl who is
always blushing. One never has the
fond satisfaction of cultivating the pro
duct in this soil The maiden reddens
at the ceremony of introduction, and
youth pulls up his collar, magnani-
mously resolving to spare such tender
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