Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-18

Of human computation, should make al
other recommendations TO popular favor
supeIfluous. Prettiuess, accomplish
ments and amiability were capital that,
according to her critic, might be be-
slowed elsewhere to better advantage.
So Our Beauty's adorers acknowledge
the need of no other claims upon their
admiration than her royal endowment OF
loneliness. II would be more than strange
were she to grow dissatisfied with her do
mein and sigh for other snd different
worlds to conquer. Wherever she goes she
makes q court and kingdom for herself.
Her face is the magic lamp that brings
courtiers, lovers, and slaves bearing
Gifts, bowling humbly at her feet. To
| her who ha, so much, much is given
adulstien, love, UNIVERSE indulgence oil
moods, and downright folly. Scant
plenishing of the interior Of the head 10
| pardoned for the sake Of the charming
mask covering the empty chambers. she
may be silly, selfish, petulsnt, ana III
nstured, but she is dazzlingly beautiful.
Vive Is reinei
| Ifto her share some natural fa'lings fall,
| Look in her ewes, and you'll forget them ALL
let her be Nell Gwvnn, Du B SRI, Marie
Stusrt, Louie Ia Valliere, Anne Boleyn,
/
or LsngtrY.
The tabled butterfly seated in the roses
heart is not more confident Of present
sovereignty, and mere thoughtless OF the
future than the hapless woman whose
face is her fortune, and who is content
Herewith. An unspoiled beauty. If not
lusus nataIe, is specimen OF her kind
sufficiently rare to warrant surprised in-
spection. So difficult is it for her to
keep her head steady aud to order her
heart Alright, that even her plain Visaged
companions accord her msgnsnimous ap'
plause when she succeeds IN doing one ar
both. She is more likely 10 pose as Nar-
cissa, eXscting tribute Of alteration BY In
ordinate estimate of her attractions. 0lce
convinced that she is the beauty OF heI
family, she aspires to eclipse every woman
she knows; is loAth to perceive the
charms Of others, and, when forced to dc
them partial justice, hates her rivals
The speCk Of blight works fast and far IN
q nature where the conserving power OF
sound sense has been reduced to mini
mum by excessive vanity, bordering upon
monomsnia. FlAtterY, conveyed In various
vehicles, is her dstly diet, and, II stinted
in supplies, she seeks 1t Avidly, and atany
cost-let it be OF her own soul. Esrth
has no drearier spectacle than that OF o
pssse belle, who clings with both hands
to the sceptre claimed by younger OF
fairer preteuders to the throne.
"IIium fuit" is not ssdder than th'
careless, "She was quite EeigninE
beauty some seasons ago, but she hal
gone of shockingly, poor thing"
The "going-of" is inevitable, sooner
or later. "O1, the pity of ii! the pity @
it,"
1t is harder for beautiful women to b.
good than for those who have been tsugh
from b6byhoed to seek the approvS
which all crave in the cultivation OF men
tai and moral traits. Harder tor them tt
put self out of sight. Our beauty Is s.
fair to view; promises such laVlsl
returns for outlay so Ti'
Gsg that friends ccnspire II
foster self esteem. It is harder for shel
than for her sisters TO refrain from sp
peals to the sensuous love OF physics
! beauty in men that leads them to critics
survey of her as fne animal, not IN
goodly cause of 5 goodlier soul. Harde
TO be generous TO those who trench upol
her province and threaten to divide he
| spoils.
One speculates, in coming these draw
backs, if the story books have not put th
wrong end o! the fairy-tsle first; il tn
belated fatal gift of the wicked god
mother, who comes IN after good look
, end other desirable things are bestowed
, may not be the perilous dowry OF exceed
/ ting beauty. .SMARIoN HARLAND.