Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-29

it's, in combination with clear heads and
wits sharpened with social friction. They
were bien dams leur assiette, and free
from nervous self.consciOusRess and dis
quieting vanity. Nine. de POmpadCur, ON
the other hand, was as poseuse as they
were unpretentiOus and good humored.
That royal faYorite mad an elegant figure.
She laced tight, wore long, stiff waist,
hoops, high-heeled shoes, instead Of low
heeled mules, was furbelowed, below
cred and beribboned, and 10 proclaim her
accomplishments, was surrounded when
her portrait was being done with attrib-
utes of the arts and sciences. Pretty she
certainly was, but she was tres peu SYM
pathique, and one could understand what
u bore the king found her when the charm
of novelty wore off. To keep her power
at court She had TO resort to the expedi-
ent OF the pare aux cerfs. Had she been
a ioyeuse commere, he would have prob
ably regretted her when she died. AS it
was he yawned on seeing the undertakers
carry of her remains and observed that
la marquise would have bad day for her
journey.
Queen Elizabeth was thin and Jealous
of all the good-looking women of her
court. Catherine III was stout, had
double chin, aud did not trouble herself
about the charms of any of her ladies,
from which we may infer that she had
reason to be pleased with her own sue
cess as woman, even when advanced in
life, and that Elizabeth often suffered
from the pangs of despised love, nOtwith-
standing the pains she took to bedizen
herself Apropos If Queen Bess, she, too,
wore long, stiff stays of the liver-com-
pressing kind, which may explain her
sharp temper as she advanced in life, and
the gloom which finally took hold of her.
Nobody can be gay with amartyred liver,
nor permanently attractive without gen.
uine gayety. a lean woman has some
great advantages over fat one. She can
always lind ready-made clothes to tit her,
can walk far and fast without fatigue,
and is not 80 much in the way in the pit
or balcony OF IA theatre. But her stout
sister is not bound to crowd on all the fur
niture that fashion invents. Indeed, she
must go in for simplicity of attire. Her
flesh, to great degree, clothes her. There
is nothing SO fearfdlly naked as lean
beauty unadOrned. Also, when side
teeth 90, the cheeks of the stout or buXOm
matron do not fall in, nor do her cheek
bones start out. Her skin is not wrinkled
parchment, and as her face is ready TO
break out IN dimples, she can smile with
ont revealing that the art of the dentist
has stepped in to help her when nature
failed. She can also eat without the
transit of food down her throat being Wis
ible, and is never so hungry as if she were
lean. NOBODY plays such capital knife
and fork as a SkinnybOnia.
1t is a mistake to suppose that any
woman approaching 80, whether fat or
lean, or half way between both, can In
spire the kind of passion which the sight
OF beauty in it's fresh bloom calls forth.
She may be just as dear" but 1t is idle
for her to hope that she may be as ''dar-
ling" The empire of the middle-aged
woman is often absolute, but it is based
upon soft manners, wide experience of
life, tolerant views, good sense, elevated
feelings, and withal a hidden spice of
skepticism and humbug. The sterner
sex are never so happy as when they are
being humbugged by the fair sex--a rea-
son why benevolence should prompt the
latter to throw, now and then, dust in the
formers eyes.