The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-05-08
BEAUTIES OF ALL NATIONS.
4 Glimpse at the Worlds Pretty
Women.
American Ladies Take the Lead.
Different Standards Of Beauty.
Oriental PeeuIIaFItIeS.

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matter. We need not stay to inquire
whether the neat oval Of the ancient
Greeks, the circle Of the Esquimaux, or
the broad, fat disk Of the Chinese and
Japanese be preferable.
Old Homer dignifies the spouse Of Jove
with the title ''ox-eyed; :" but in the Celes-
tial empire Of our days her Goddesship
would take a very low position among the
beauties. There "pig-eyed" would be the
most honorable title; a Chinese poet
laureate, singing Of the charms Of his
lady love, dwells upon "her round, fiat
face and eyes Of smallest size." The
Shah's bard would celebrate cher eyes
soft languish," while a S, ottish one
would, no doubt, say, "twa laughing
Gen."
In civilized life man is largely, but by
no means, exclusively, Influenced in the
choice Of his wife by external appearance.
and Laurence attributes the beauty Of the
upper classes in Britain to the stronger
sex having long selected for their help
mates the more beautiful women. The
English aristocracy, from having chosen
during many generations from all classes
the more beautiful women as wives, have
become handsomer, according to the
European standard, than the middle
classes, although the latter are placed
under equally favorable conditions Of life
for the perfect development Of the body.
From q comparison of the pictures Of
Raphael, Rubens, Murillo and modern
French artists, it appears that the idea Of
beauty is not absolutely the same even
Throughout Europe.
The famed Arabian beauties and the
ladies Of the southern hemisphere stain
their lips blue. In Africa, both the lips
must be thick and projecting and their
Ioveliness is increased by constantly drag
glng down the lower one IN childho'd TIL
at last 1t droops permanently ia'lure 70
exhibit the roots oil the teeth pelnS recE-
oned q positlVe delorm'ty' Inc ieelh
must IN TINS part Of the world De O'acK.
The Indians prefer IN some instances, red
teeth. Ne" zealand native ladles ADOPT
the ebony hue and ME thelr teeth hali
way down. while the japanese maidens
complete thelr toilet by covering thelr
teelh win goid leai'
AS regards the nose, whist European
nurses plnch 1t up the African iadies
consider II IN It's natural state 100 proul'
nent a feature TO De gracetnI' ana conse-
quently they carefully squeeze down tne
budding nose ana so suc'essiu' are the'T
endeavors that 1t requires Keen eye 10
discover It's presence IN many q saOie
lace. Hottentot damseis PRIZE themselves
On perfectly nat noses rersians prefer
them hooksa slkntly, ana our ualllC
neighbors have marked PsnchenIS NV IOi
"un nez retrousse.
Siamese have small noses with diverg-
ent nostrils, a wide mouth, q remafkably
large face, with very high and broad
cheek-bones. Beauty, according to our
notion, is a stranger to item. yet they
consider their own females to be much
more beautiful than those Of Europe.
The Chinese of the interior think all
Europeans hideous, with their white skins
and prominent noses, and their type Of
female beauty must possess a broad face,
hiph cheek.bones, very broad nose, and
enormous ears, with obliQue eyes. The
Chinese have by nature unusually small
feet, and, as is we'll known, the women Of
the upper classes distort their feet to make
them still smaller.
The shape Of the head is Of much i'm.
portance among some tribes. Many
American Indians admire q head 90 ex.
tremely tiattened as to appear to us idiotic.
The natives on the northwestern coast
compress the head into a pointed one,
and il is their constant practice to gather
the hair into a knot on the top Of the
head for the sake Of increasing tile appar.
ent elevation Of the favorite conoid form.
The inhabitants Of Arakhan admire a
fiat, smooth forehead, and in order to
produce It they fasten leaden plate on
the heads Of their female babies. On the
other hand, the Fiji islanders like well.
rounded head.
In Java, a yellow, not q white, girl Il
considered beauty. A man Of Cochin
China spoke Wilh great contempt Of the
wife Of our British ambassador, "because