Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-30
ROOK FIVE.
LADY BEAUTYS SORROW
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CHAPTER VI.

pie, tnen slykSu Lazy beaGtb J
thiod year; and her power to charm 81 Gu
ace when charms are commonly supposed
to be dead and gomez led me to ask, WHAT
is tb.s womsn5 secret? And having
searched into her life and character, and
noted her ways, | venture to oder this an
psrEsct record Of Der life, and this still
move imperfect picture Of herself, for the
study of her sex generally. Iwishto con-
vince women that it is great mistake on
their part to suppose thst their power to
please departs with youth. At all times /
have noticed that men Of sense seldom sc-
mire-or. If you ike, grow eusmored OF
women for beauty alone, on. for ehsrsc'
ter. manner, taste and conversation. Now,
while beauty I've mus admit lessons with
time, character, manner, taste and CONVEX
sation NAV each De reiaed and enriched;
and these, | believe, by their improvement
can quite compensate for the loss Of per
soaal charms. Mere beauty is out one
bright, uuchansiny beam-it will grow
even wearisome; out wit, sense, courtesy
and humanity are forever casting forth
new and Unexpected rays, and eniivening
intercourse with agreeable Surprises. Aud
so the story Of Lsdy Beauty Is written as
hum5le attempt to encourage women to De
charming 10 ,her latest day. For they can
do it if they try.
Sophia was withou. question far inferior
m physical beauty to Sibyl, aud think
most people would have said that she was
not so handsome as Caroline. Her features
were regular, her nose straight and fine,
complexion dehcsts and rosy; but still
In her face she wss no model of woman
hood Her exprsssion-aud what is eX
preston bur character fixed in the couute-
nsuce2-msde Sophia what she vas. Her
delicate upper ho, with the hint Of 6rm
ne,s in It's tiue line told of resolution the
soft hszsl eyes, With tbsir upward glance
had a look OF aspiration; the mouth was
full of tenderness ready 10 mold itself to
every sHecionat9 f=elllg. But what was
this sfter alp Sophia's nature in Sophia
face
She was the best dresser l ever knew.
Of color, eijbes oy study or natural gift,
she wss perfect mis,r:s. Accordingly
her appearance pleased numbers of peo-
pie before they saw her face; and many b
time "a she went down the stree. the curl.
csiry OF those who walked behind was
aroused to see what migat bs the face Of
the woman whose gown and mantle were
so striking by the harmony or ths contrast
of their hue Flowess, RIBBONS, brooches,
all that sets of dress, she used with the
most uuerriug taste. And she managed
through all tha changes of fashion to re
spscg herself and her own figure and face;
in the fashion she always Sould bs, bat still
she mOdulated it so 80 TO bs the queen and
not the slave No doubt Sophia must have
paid great attention to her dress, bat
scarcely think she could have achieved
such constant success, or so complete, had
she not been dresser born.
Iheu her manners in society were cApti-
yatirg. Here | think the little mother
homihe5 were useful Indeed With what
a graceful attention she heard what you
had to ss7l How modestly she gave her
own opinion She was we'll read, and could
take her part 10 most conversations with
esss: and nov and then she could deal cut
q witty stroke. Indeed, SOphis had great
deal Of humor. but seldom gave 1t the rein
in society. Night wss her time, with Car
and Sibyl; and often toe two more brilliant
girls, as they laughed a. her eomicsl remi-
niscances of tbs day would feel how easily
Sophia could outshius them II she tried.
She loved the Eorld. HSre again the In
6uence Of her mother was perceptible, wish
this difference thst the world 10 her moth.
er's language s;gniied society, and moth.
ipS more, while Sophia would have included
In il The whole of nature and life. | Go
not think | ever saw any one VINO had such
a simple and unaffected enjoyment in hv-
ing IS She A walk in the woods was en-
chsntuent to her; ard the other hand,
have seen her on the tiptce OF plsssursble
excitement for bail. She was no poetic
reCluss; che never shGsusd society or It's
pleasures, but rather sought them. There
was not a particle of sffectAtion s6outbsr;
indeed, she retained her girlishness and her |
love Of girlish amusements for an unusu.
ally long time.
And she certainly remembered hsr moth |
ers teaching 10 another particular; she !
tried to please She knew that q woman |
ough, to De an object of admiration and |
affection, and she ruled her whole life with |
this fact in view. But Sophia understood /
the art of charming, which, with sll their
gracefulness, few English women entirely /
do. Perhaps Nature feels that che has
given our English women enough Rlresdy, |
and, mindful of the Limitation which ough,
to mark sill mortal things, has withheld that
one gift which would make them irresist.
ible. Sophia knew that face and figure
are not everything She understood that
il is the woman & man sdmirCs, not her
eyes or nose or lips OF waist; the whole
woman person, dress, manner, talents aud
character. FrenchWOmen are in this re-
spect more farsighIed than our English
ladies, but even FrenchEomsn do not fully
realize this great social truth. A woman
who knows that her dress is tasteful and
her expression agreeable and her CONVEX.
sation lively viii be little dismsysd to hear
of crows fset round Der syeEds or gray
hairs on her temples. Her better part is ,
amidst the gentle decay Of more |
material charms. You will laugh when I
tell sou before the story ends how Sophia I
Temple, Lady Beauty. at the age of fifty
three, had new lover, and what lovsr I
be was. s
One touch must add to this picture '
Sophia was in the best sense of word re, q
igious woman. Without love-" cries {
yrest novelist, Il cen fancy no gentleman" T
little difdently | should add, without
,shgiOp / ean fancy no lady. Sophis's /
,iety was in no way ob.rusiye, never pufi. 3
anical, never ssestic, but gentle, animated (
md humane. 1t quite saved her from Der d
mothers narrow and hsartlsss and merely =
parking worldiness Sophia loved the I
world but had hope beyond it, and her 4
eEgion gave a richness, q sweetness, . Sc '
to al her charms /
/ must admit however, that many Of r
.sdy Besuty's own sex declared her to be e