Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-15
BEAUTY-WEALTR.
Mrs Frank Leslie Discusses Their
Value TO Women.
Are They Unmixed Blessings to Woman.
The Power of Beauty in Girl or
WOman-The Society Belle.
Difference TO WeaIth-Hints to Parents Who
are Blessed with Pretty Children-HoW
Beauty Should be Reared

Copyrighted 1889, by the Box Syndicate Press.
The girl or woman who possesses IN
doubted beauty is sure of attention
wherever she goes. Her mother, as
well as her grandmother and aunts
generally not her sisters and cousins),
net and spoil and pamper her from the
cradle to maturity; her teachers of the
male persuasion cannot be too severe
with the lovely eyes that plead, the
charming lips that tremble, the sweet
rose tint that pales and fiushes upon the
rounded check.
out Of school the pretty girl has her
little beaux long before her skirts reach
the tops of her boots, and az all the
juvenile parties and other devices LOT
reaching children the follies OF their
elders. the beauty carries off the deslra-
he mariners and the prettiest 1aVoFs,
learns TO distribute her smiles as care
fuIlv as her elder sisters, and enjoys the
triumph of filing the hearts Of all the
Dlainer girls with jealousy and miserable
envy.
Older grown, the girl or woman OF IN
doubted beauty cannot walk the streets'
OF 20 to a theatre, or even to church,
without hearing or seeing at every step
the admiration she evokes. From the
laborer. who rivals in feeling, if not IN
wit him who begged the beautiful
countess to pause moment that ne
might light his pipe at her eyes, 10 the
kindly old gentleman who looks upon
her with a benignant smile, every man
paws her homage-yes, and very many
women do so, too.
For my own part, 1 know no more
charming object in all this charming
world than a beautiful girl, radiant WHIP
the dewy freshness of her youth, and
glorious in the panoply OF her IoVeL-
mass when she appears in society,
the smelling process of the nursery Is
intensified and amplified. Partners po-
Iitely elbow each other to reach her cara
before it is filled, the incest men IN the
room are at once presented, the hostess
beams a gracious welcome upon so de-
.cided an attraction, and the host eXhausLs
himself in grateful panegyrlc. Artlsts
beg the privilege Of reproducing thaI
charming face and form, in marble, Ia
clay, in paint, in crayon, upon the pho-
fopranh5c plate: poets write verses
whole volumes of them-and stately es-
savists beg permission to dedicate TO her
read. She may marry every week ID
the year if she has not already bound
herself. and the most BTutus-like OF
senators will undertake anything she
wishes if she will only do her own lobby
ing.
Is all this success? a hasty assent
rises from the serried ranks of the gTea'
sisterhood of unattTactive women-they
who have worn out their youth IN humll-
iating loneliness and neglect, who have
tried to satisfy a craving appetite WITH
the crumbs that fell from the overloaded
table of the beauty, and who have crlea
their door, pale little eyes red and ugly
AZ seeing Adonis turn from them with g
hasty bow to run after Aurelia, already
surrounded with admirers.
But stop q minute. Look forward, my
child, some twenty or thirty years, WheI
Aurelia and you shall be climbing To-
gether the steep path Of middle life. LIS
ten to the voice of the woTlGhabout yol
then. Listen to Adonis, himself mid
dIe-aged man with waistcOats, gloves
and shoes a good deal Toomier than he
wears to-day: ''That the former Mis-:
Blank! Why, she is hardly more than
good looking. How she must have
zone off. They say she has developed
a temper since she Is not so muct
surrounded as she used TO be. - Poo
thing! 1 am glad she has developed
something, for I always found her
nonentity - eyes, perfect fool. an(
now she has become a spiteful fool,
etc. , etc.
Poor Aureiia, spoiled in the nursery
never learned to put aside her owl
whims, or plans, or to listen to those o
Others. Never reproved for seltishues
and passion, those i'll weeds grew apac
in her nature; and, unlike virtues, tines
vices grow stronger in the weakness o
our falling strength of body and mind.
INDUCED at school, Aurelia neve
studied more than she felt like dong
and as her mind was full Of last night
conQuests and to-day s amusement, sh
felt like studying very little, and conse
oueutly graduated from school in raw
ishinglv beautiful gown and flowers, an
was therein photographed as the beaut
of her class, but with a vague idea tina
Athens Is the capital of Italy, and tina
Burgoyne was a French admiral.
A taste for reading is not TO be cult
waited in the life a beauty lives, even
the root is in her nature; and the cOnse
ouenCe Is, that at forty years old Aurell
has neither exact Information nor bril-
liant gleanings TO make her conveFsatio
interesting, and the chance is that sh
talks mostly of herself and neXtly OF he
neighbors, treating these topics IN
manner neither interesting nor amiable
and now comes in the question c
wealth: and with the faded beauty tn
is a very important question, for
beauty in its bloom is sure of admiration
wealth at every stage OF life is sure Of at
teution and Difference. Alrelia, how
ever gone of, - however stupid, how
ever spiteful, is sure of a place in soclet
II she is only rich enough to pay for II
ana viii find her little platitudes listene
10 with smiling Difference by Adonis, Jr-
il he wants an invitation to her recep
tons, and au opportunity TO meet b
Aurifera at her villa at Newport.
Mounted upon her golden chariot, Au
relia drives sayly on thronghs.llte an
nobody but her maid hears the, means {
sees the bitter tears Of impotent rag
with which she bewails her lost youth an
beauty, and marks the progress of SON
fresh young Bonnibel who pays TO her a
innocently the respect due to her yea
instead of the homage ali used to pay