Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-09
TYPES OF 5eau1S
Ne Feasibility Of Arriving at Any Stand
ard-Some Il Ideas.


Various, indeed, are the opinions held
by a wide diversity Of races regarding
their beauties, though it is often difficult
for people bred under another sky to
share their enthusiasm. The Circassian
women, who have a sort Of conventional
reputation for loneliness, are affirmed by
those who know them best to be far from
worthy of their celebrity. Short legs,
giaring red hair, faces SO long and mar
row that their heads seem TO have been
squeezed between two boards and fat
tened, noses out Of proportion TO the rest
Of the features and compilations Of a
dull, lead like hue. scarcely constitute
beauty according to our standard. The
Noors and the Tunisian Jews regard cor
pulence as absolutely essential TO beauty,
and the inmates of rich mems harems are
stuffed with nutritious food, like Stras-
bourg geese for the market. The Chi
nese poets sing Of the dcformed feet as
''golden lilies" and the rocking of their
women in attempting TO walk as the
''waving Of O willow"
Other races have equally odd ideas Of
what constitutes loneliness. for they ''im-
prove their persons by hattening their
yoreheads, tattooing their skins, cutting
off their fingers, filing their teeth or
dyeing them black. blue or tartan, paint
ing their bodies. sitting their ears, com-
pressing their waists, putting stones, bone
or metal through their lips, cheeks, or
ears, and in a dozen other WAYS trying TO
enhance the poor prentice work of nature.
A Felatah lady dyes her hands and feet
with hennah, stains her teeth alternately
blue. yellow and purple, one here and
there being left OF its natural color, pen,
ellis her eyelids with sulphuret Of anti.
mony, and dyes her locks with indigo.
The Hydah woman inserts a plug Of
wood or ivory through her lower ZIP until
It represents the hideous appearance Of q
fleshy shelf over her chin. A Chinese or
q Siamese lady cultivate long nails. ,
Hottentot belle cannot get her nose liza.
enough, or a Parsian Oeauty hers high
enough.
On the northwest coast Of America 40
reproack is more bitter than for one In
dian girl torell anOtl er that ''your mo-
ther was too lazy TO latten your head
Tattooing is almost universal aipous nalf
civilized or savage races; in New Yea
land the Maori women, before they began
TO imblbe European preiudices, even tat
tooed their lips, lest they should have
the reproach OF being red. Some
races slit their ears until they hang In
loops on their shoulders. Others insert
huge rings and other m though
the cartilage Of their noses. The Louisi-
ade Islanders regard the lid of a saro,2S
box as a particularly neat piece of jer
elry, and even European women hav,
not vet ceased To suspend bits Of stone
and metal through the lobes OF their ears.
There is, in truth, no possibility Of ar.
riviuy at any standard Of beauty, the
'.pointsn Of which would not do injustice
10 some of the competitors. Even among
the whites there are various ideas c!
what constitutes good looks. Like man.
ners and morals, beauty is very much O
matter of sky. just as an Indian told Q
traveller what a comfort his son was 10
him. because ''hecould steal more horses
than any boy OF his age" SO a western
frontiersman assured a visitor that bis
daughter was the finest girl" in the
settlement, for she could theft a barrel
of pork and lick her weight in wild
cat. London Standard.