Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-23

OF human computation, should make al
other recommendations to popular favol
superfuous. Prettiness, accomplish.
ments and amiabIlity were capital that
according to her critic, might be be.
slowed elsewhere to better advantage
So Our Beauty's sdorers acknowledge
the need of no other claims upon iheil
admiration than her royal endowment OF
loveliDess. It would be more than strange
were she to Rrow dissatisfied with her do
main and sigh for other and 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 has so much, much is given
sdulatiop, love, universal indulgence OF
moods, and downright folly. Scsnt
plenishiDg Of the interior Of the head is
pardoned for the sake Of the charming
, mask covering the empty chambers. She
may be silly, selfish, petulant, and Ill,
nstdred, but she is dazzlingly beautiful.
Vive Is reinel
II to her shars come ratursl falings fall,
LOOK In her eyes, and you'll forget them all.
let her be Nell GwVnD, Du Bari, Marie
or LangtrY.
The tabled butterfly seated in the roses
heart Is not more confident Of present
sovereignty, and more thoughtless OF the
future than the hspless woman whose
face Is her fortune, and who is content
herewith. An unspoiled beauty, II not
lusus natare, is specimen OF her kind
sufficiently rare to warrant surprised in
spection. So difficult is 1t for her to
keep her head steady and to order her
heart Alright, that even her plain-visaged
companions accord her magnanimoua ap-
plsuse when she succeeds in doing one or
both. She is more likely to pose as Mar
cisss, exactiDg tribute Of alteration by in
estimate of her attractions. Once
convinced that she Is the beauty Of her
family, she sspires to eclipse every woman
she knows; is loath to perceive the
charms of others, and, when forced to do
--sLn partial justice, fStes her rivals.
The speck of blight worl fast and far in
a nature where the conserving power of
sound sense has been reduced to mini
mum by excessive vanity, bordering upon
FlatterY, conveyed in various
vehicles, is her daily diet, and, II stinted
in supplies, she seeks 1t svidly, and at any
cost-let it be of her own soul. Earth
has no dresrier spectacle than that of
passe belle, who clings with both hands
to the sceptre claimed by younger or
iairer pretenders 10 the throne.
"Ilium fuit" is not sadder than the
careless, "Sbe WAS quite IA reigning
beauty some seasons ago, but she has
gone OF shockinsly, poor thing"
The "going-o6" is inevitable, sooner
or later. "Oh, the pity Of it! the pity Of
it,"
1t is harder for beautiful women to be
good than for those who have been taught
from bsbyhoed to seek the approval
which ell crave in the cultivation Of men,
tai and moral traits. Harder for them to
put self ont of sight. Our beauty is so
fair to view; promises such lavish
returns for outlay 80 tri-
Dug that friends conspire to
foster self esteem. It is harder for gher
than for her sisters to refrain from ap-
peas to the sensuous love OF physical
beauty in men that leads them to critical
survey of her as fiue animal, not the
goodly cause OF a goodlier soul. Harder
to be generous to those who trench upon
her province and threaten to divide her
spoils.
backs, if the story books have not put the
wrong end of the fairy-tsle first; il the
belated fatal gift of the wicked god
mother, who comes in after good looks
and other desirable things are bestowed,
may not be the perilous dowry ofexceed-
ing beauty. MARION HARLAND.