The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-01-23
Most Attractive Women.


Where are women most attractive?
On the street, on the stage, in the
ballroom, at church or at home ?
Women are seen at other places and
under other conditions, but this
query is intended to cover only a few
distinctive roles that women assume
in society as now organized. More
women are seen on the street than
anywhere else. That is, the greatest
number OF different men see the great
est number OF different women on the
street, or rather, in street costume,
for they may see them in Broadway
bus, or on 4 steamboat, or on the
elevated railroad, or on street-car.
A woman in street costume is verv
different looking creature from wo-
man in stage costume, or in a ball
dress, or in home wrapper. Not
only are there striking contrasts in
the matter Of dress, but in the mat
ter Of personal bearing as well, and
as an object to 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 APP.
pearaDce OF a woman becomes the
most effective. There you see hat,
dress, shoes, gloves, parasol, as well
as the face. The view is generally
transitory and often deceptive. And
yet with these advantages how sell
dom it is that you see a really hand
~ ell
hundreds that you will meet on q
fair afternoon in walk from Thirty
third street to Fourteenth street or
Broadway, how many are there that
are really pretsy9 Isuppose thought
like this has popped into the minds
OF great many people, and always
with an accompanying feeling OF dis
appointment. When on dress par
ade, 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 requirement. In
some OF these "A woman is almost cer-
tain to ail short. Suppose she has a
pretty face but too much paint on it?
That spoils her as a complete beauty.
Suppose she has a pretty face but
bad form, which is fully revealed
from the waist up by the tight-ftting
dresses they wear nowadays? Sup
pose she has pretty face but has a
badly-iitting dress, or a rundown
shoe, or soiled gloves, or an unbecom-
my hat, or colors in her costume that
are notharmonious And suppose she
has bad walk? Suppose she jerks
heavily along like a erawfish that
moves backward, or lopes along like
horse a-canter? Don't you zee how
many things are to be taken into con-
sideration when you look for really
handsome woman on the street?
That is why you sometimes see face
like dream as it passes you, and
you think that it is heavenly yis-
ion; but when you see it better, and
see more than the faee-in other
words, when you have the complete
woman before you-ninety-nine times
out OF a hundred there will be some
thing turn up to spoil 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 entirely to the ideas
of somebody else who makes a busi-
ness of dressing people. The most
perfected art is not at all commercial.
"In character, trades takes away the
freshness of every good idea" Well,
of course, the more woman is to be
dressed the more mistakes will hap
pen and the greater the number of
possible incongruities. So there is q
good reason why women, as you meet
them on the street, are disappoint-
ing. The very elaborateness with
which they clothe themselves is the
source of those very defects that rob
them Of many charm.