Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-08
HOPE FOB ALL WOMEN.
Is II Rot Possible to Cultivate Beauty
In the Sexs-Annie Jsnness Miller
Writes About Ugliuess in Women.
No Reason why Any body Should be Ugly.
Beautiful Animals, why Not Beau
tifuI Human Beings.


tifuI Human Beings.
No amount of moralizing concerning
the "vanitles Of beauty will change the
fact that beautiful human being arouses
enthusiasm and commands devotion
which ugly goodness Cd fails to attract.
Beauty, like grateful incense, thrills my
soul. do not like ugllness, neither do
other sensible people, and 1t is an affects
ton to pretend that one would Just IS
soon be ugly as handsome. Why, the
most intellectual man 1 know declares
that he would be willing to barter his
brains for the form and feature OF an
Apollo. Not all OF US would
90 that far, though one would hesitate
and think twice If the choice
were simply beauty or brains. But why
should anybody be ug " The very come.
illness of some persons argues that all
human beings ought to be attractive, at
least that all OF those whose general evol-
ution comedies with our own ought to
enjoy similar advantages In point OF at
traction. Does not fsllure to present 8
pleasing exterior furnish proof conclusive
of disobedience to some law Of life gov
nv psrt never see an ugly man or
woman that do not Immediately decide
that his or her ancestors were either sin
ners or bigots, because detormity and
disease follow sin to the third
and fourth generations, as surely as de-
struction follows fire. It Is delicate
subject, but one we'll worthy of consider
alton, that farmers and stock breeders
take the trouble to study and understand
all the laws of breeding, rearing and
training to produce perfect animals,
while the glory and dignity Of perfection
in human offspring are overlooked. From
the conventional point Of view it is bad
form to give thought to developing per-
feet human animal, but from 8 sensi-
BILE standpoint 1t must be admitted
that there Is danger that the
spread OF disease and sin will so weaken
the human hole on life IS to threaten the
perpetulty OF the race. Indeed, l know
an eminent scholar who believes that 1t is
only question Of time when this planet
will become depopulated, not from
chemical inLdaptsbility TO sustain Hfe,
but from the physical inability OF @he
human family to go on reproducing; and
one inclined to ridicule the theory has
only to remember that where formerly
ten children were welcomed as goo3
family, i've are now considered
large family, and many mothers
, consider themselves sufficiently
blest when two chlloren
are born to them; while still others can
not, or will not, have children at all; and
this change is taking place among the
higher, more cultured, :nd intellectual
races; large families remaining the rule
with tae poorer and peasant classes only
J and be it confessed with sorro~ and re-
? gret that these l::tcr ore those best
. adapted physically to the important func-
tions of paternity and maternity, when
instesd the relation of physical develop
ment to mental endoWments should be sc
{ exquisite that men and women OF beauty
and brains should be the parents OF gods
CAN BEAUTY BIZ BRED
Herbert Spencer says: "Infnite pains
will be taken to produce racer that will
. win the Derby, none to produce modern
Athlete" which statement Is literally
true if one excerpts the few brutal and de-
grading specimens of modern athletes
= whose souls do rise above the fist fights
}, of the prize ring. The high pressure OF
9 the present system of living has led to dc
!. msny evils that ailments II not actua
g disease have per force Of their prevalence
a been admitted into polite circles as sub
! jects for general conversation; and with
, such mental attitude TOWARD
y disease, sound bodily health has
: ceased to be considered as the
q highest endowment of human creation
q Finicky accomplishment has Slapped vital
q ity, and stinulents taking the place Of
o nourishment, results are weakened anc
. disturbed bodily conditions. l once heard
I q clergyman say from his pulpit that q
plain woman was the delight and glory OF
, Tod, while handsome woman YVES the
, natural prey Of the devil, and with all re-
! gard for his cloth l still believe that the
, reverend gentleman himself was victim
= of the vices or bad liver OF some ancestor
I whose misery colored the horizon with
! melancholy tints. The body is the temple
. of the soul and as such Is certainly worthy
of intelligent thought directed toward its
upbuildment and beauty. There are Ger
Z tain lswsBgoverning the development Of
, neslth and morals which, in my opinion,
! should be controlled by the state.
. "What! arbitrary laws for governing
my individual habits" one exclaims;
"heresy!"
\ Not SO, my dear sir; where moral pes
, thence which Affects my peace follows
D your ueSleCL VI CtE Ldlu Iulco VI liio' AOu
have rights, but SO have 1. And what
t right has one of the enfeebled energies
and vicious appetites to become parent
+ adding another to the lawless and almost
irresponsible of the race? For weak
eued or diseased father or mother may
give to the world son who is criminal,
the instinct for crime born in him and
I impossible of correction-whoset the sin?
And the squeamish prudery OF your
l daughter may be the natural accom-
paniment of heart barren OF
womanly tenderness and maternal desire.
g But this is not virtue; 1t is not even
modesty, 1t Is monstrous, unnatural.
. Children are too often, alas, victims OF
! causes which they cannot and parents
! will net control; and so men and women
: go on charging to the account OF high
heaven the idiots, criminals, deformed
and unsightly offspring born to them,
when heaven weeps at the sight; while
the sentimental cody shake their heads
:. ssgely and denounce beauty. All bosh.
Beauty Is divine, 1t is 6 power which
every right minded man and woman