Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-11-29
FALSE IDEAS OF CREOLE BEAUTY.
There Are Dazzling Blondes as Well as
Charming Nut Brown Maids.

There Are Dazzling Blondes as Well as
Charming Nut Brown Maids.
We are not hide bound nor narrow
minded in our admiration of female beauty.
The fair and the dark, the blondes and
burnettes, all have their special charms
and admirable points. Besides the beauty
of feature and color, there is also a
spiritual and intellectual beauty which is
quite as potent as the other. In the
presence of pure and lovely soul or y
sparkling intellect and delighting dispo-
sition one may be SO completely en-
chanted as to be utterly blind to material
things. But whatever may be our liberality
in matters of love and admiration for the
beautiful sex, and we recognize their claims
without regard to chronological or geograph-
ical limits, we are bound to reserve a
special homage for our own Southern
women, and we are moved to thi, ac-
acknowledgement by the following tribute to
Louisiana beauty. 1t was contributed to
the Boyce (Rapides Parish) Headlight by
one who signs herself Cane River Girl.
This is her verdict.
Many of our Northern friends picture all
Creoles with dark, swarthy skins, hair
black as the raven s wing, and eyes of ebon
darkness; now this is altogether an enron
eous fancy-why, some of the girls have
lily white compilations. golden locks, and
eyes of Heavens own blue! In the little
village where live there are four sisters,
all of the purest blonde type, and it would
be difficult to find anywhere in the wide
world fairer. sweeter, lovelier maidens
than they. Whenever read of the dark
skinned Creole" smile crosses my face,
upon my rosebud garden Of girls.
T rurif1. thaca 1inac n dainty Grao1a
maiden enters my presence. She has
come, like CLEAN of sunshine athwart a
murky sky, to chase away the clouds which
sometimes surround me; and truly she is a
fair vision to gaze upon, sitting where the
sun shines full upon her, revealing the
CLINT of gold in her wavy brown hair, which
ripples above broad fair brow, her pearly
cheeks are slightly tinged by the SUMS
kisses, and her eyes, of apassionless peace
full blue, are gazing tenderly upon me,
utterly unconscious of her own pictur-
esaue loneliness; the mind Of this gentle girl
is as pure and bright as her face. Al
together she is one Of earth's faire 4 flowers.
have lived among the Creoles nearly all
my life, but am not one of them; am
what they call @an american" why that
term should not be applied to them is a
mystery which cannot solve. have a
penchan. for Creole girls; they are usually
dainty and refined, sensitive and sympa-
thetic, light hearted aud sunny-tempered;
then the marks of Difference they pay to
old age is truly something to be admired
and might we'll be initiated by many of my
American sisters. Creole girl rarely ever
snllies her lips with that slang which is so
generally used NOWADAYS. She Is usual y
reared in seclusion, and her days glide by
peacefully and tranquility; this tranquility
Is seldom disturbed by stoTm-clond; she
is content to remain at home. where there
is always wide field Of action. and do
her duty in that state of life unto which it
shall please God to call her.
There are many other fine characteristics
which the Creole girl possesses, and re-
greet that / have not time to mention them.
had to steal the moments to write sven
these few lines. Bit before closing this
arfiele ! nrsf admit that the majority ef
gre0les are dark There are many nut
brown maidens among them bit some Of
them afs fair. seIs lair. zssH 0fleaas