Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-20

them to any one ct all. / daresaYyou will
think them great rubbish.
And so she began with a.comic preface
which was not on the paper at all:
Beauty Rules, By Sophia Brent, en-
elderly lady, who ought to be thinking OF
other things"
Rule One.--A womsn's power in the
world is measured BY her power to please
Whatever she may wish to accomplish she
will best manage il by pleasing. A woman
grand social aim should be to please.
"And let me tell you how that is to be
DONE" Sophia said, putting her paper down
for q moment. "a woman can please the
eye by her appearance, her dress, her face
and her figure. She can please the ear BY
studying the art of graceful elocuhon, not
hard to sny of Us, for by nature we speak
with finer articulation than you. She can
please the mind by cultivsting her own,
so far, at least, as to make her good
listener; and az much further as she will she
can please the fancy by ladies' wit OF which
all OF US have share. She can please the
heart by amibility. See here, she con-
tinued, growing grsver, You have the key
of nv system. Beauty OF person 10 only
one feature OF true beauty. Run over these
qualities. See how small part personal
beauty or the freshness Of youth plays here,
want you to observe this; for my art
would consist not in making women attract
i've who are openly pretty and young, but
in showing them that youth and prettiness
though articles of beauty, are neither the
only nor the Indispensable articles" 49,.
I'm that case" / remarked, you will
hardly illustrate your system in person.
Tothis she youchsated smile and mock
courtesy, and read:
"RuIe TtDo.- Modesty is the ground on
which all woman s charms appear to the
best advantage. In manners, dress, CON
versatioD, remember always that mCdesty
must never be forgotten.
Hardly likely to be" murmured' us
it% :.
Understand me" me answered Sophia
briskly, Il mean modesty in very ex-
tended sense. There is nowadays ten
dency in women to rebel against old fash
toned modesty The doctrine OF liberty Is
spreading among us, for which | thank
God" Sophia said (she Was the oldest lit,
tie mixture of Tory and Wing and Radical
ever compounded on this eccentric earth).
But the first effects of that doctrine on our
minds are little confusing, We are grow
ing more independent and more individual
Some of US fancy that 10 be modest is to be
oldfashioned, and, OF course, we want the
newest fashions in all things, MAINTAIN
Sophia said, growing a little warm, as II
she fsnci9d | might argue back MAN,
tain that a modest woman ia the reply oil
nv sex to a brave mau-you can no more
have true woman without modesty than
y true man without courage. But remem
Der, / use the word modesty in high
sense" -,
Just what was going to ask said.
Not prudory" she added. "Rrudery Ii
to modesty what brsg is to bravery. Fru'
derry is on the surface; modesty Is IN the
soul Rosalind in her boys suit is De
hghyfully modest, but not, Sophia SAID
with q twinkle of her eye-"not very pru
dish, is she2'
sssented and thus made way for
Gule Three.-So the woman's aim is to
please, and wodeSy is the fret principle
in the art Of pleasing.
Have you anything to say to that? she
demanded :.
Not a syllable" l replied. Il play dis
ciple this morning.
VERY we'll" she rejOinsd. I'VE come
then, to -
"Rule F0ur.-Alysys dress up to your
age or little beyond it. Let your person
be the youngest thing about you not the
Oldest.
"A very important lesson for women OF
forty" Sophia remarked, speaking With
seriousness which amused me. The at
tempt to dress for young almost invsrisbly
leads to a reaction in the spectators mind
and the traces of years become more pal
psbs and more significant. Bat sligh'
and graceful assumption of years IN on
dress has an effect directly opposite. May
this rule pass|
| bowed, and she went on;
"Rule FiUs.-Rsmembe that what wo'
men admire in themselves 10 seldom what
men admire in them.
'In rine drawing rooms out Of ten" So
phia said, seeing me give look OF inquiry
as she read this article, Miranda or Cor,
della as novel heroines, would be voted
bores. Women would say: We utterly
decline to accept these watery girls as typl,
cal of use; we want smartneas and life.
don't really care much for Miranda or
| Cordehs myself. Now, this seems to me
10 caution US against trus ing too impllc-
! ity or too far our own notions shout our
selves. Another source of misuuderstsn6-
ing comes from the novel writer's We sre
| the novel readers, and the novelist ia forced
| to write heroines to srit orr taste. He does
not want to offend us Thus it comes about
that even the male novelist is too often
only depicting women's women, after all.
And believe scores OF modern girls are
seriously mislead for this very reason. They
believe they are finding out what men think
of them, when in truth they ara reading
their own notions handed back to them uu-
der pretty disguise"
Like toe cheep wine:" ventursd 10
observe, made in England. exported to n
foreign country to be blessed, and then re-
turned as fine old sherry-highly finished
wine"
Sophia laughed with me at this, and read
on:
"Pule Sir.-Women's beauties are sell
dom mems beauties.
(Which" she remarked, is another form
of what | said just now, only here speak
of personal beauty MY observation is
that il ten men aud ten women were to go
into the same company, oud each sex choose
the prettiest woman there, as they thought,
you would rarely find that they choose the
same. II this be so, we ought not to trust
ourselves even as to our faces without con-
sidering that the sex we are to please must
in the end settle the question, and will set
tie the question in its own way.
"Rule Seren. --Gsysty tempered by ssri-
business is the happieSt manner in society.
by which l mean" Sophia said, look