The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-21
COQUETRY AND BEAUTY.
Susceptibility Of Mon to Frivolity
and Simplicity.
coquottes Seem to Command Premium
While Bralny Women Arc at Dis
count-The Masculine Mind Tired
of Pedantic Lectures.

New York World. She inheritS bot.
ter legacy than wealth, for while money
gives life its cushion beauty gives IT.
color and coquetry makes it sparkle.
The coquetto will go on with her con-
quests while there is a man left in tho
world with a heart in his bosom. There
is woman in New York who keeps y
big boarding-school for the educa
ton of coQuettes, and instead
Of walking on rose leaves sho treads on
golden eagles. Seats at her perform
ances are secured two years in advance,
and to mako the application you pay a
handsome deposit. There are no graded
courses of study, no exhaustive examina-
tions no tedious memory lessons and
no incessant, eternal and intolerable
smashing of piano-leys. Aspirants for
degrees can go to tho Harvard annex.
Would-be grenadiers are directed to
Holyoke and Columbia, and blue stock
ings are advised to enter local high
schools and universities for intellectual
force. Hero coquetry is fostcred
and no secret made about it, either.
oi uSiEc olOuiuciS GEO IOuIlucu luJO DS
Milo grace; flat soles are raised by jul
dicious foot coverings; high foreheads
sheltered by kiss curls; harsh voices
lowered whole tone; angular elbows
turned in; stiff joints looscned and
every symptom of a strong mind rigidly
suppressed. Tho pupil is sweetenod,
softened and curved. She is carefully
instructed to know nothing and to do
nothing that will rob grace or mar
smile.
And does She pay?
Doesn't she.
Drop her in the village lane or quiet
promenade OF her native city and see if
she is not gobbled up by the most prom
ising young lawyer or most prominent
bachelor in The town.
This is Il serious, angular old world.
Men are sick and tired of shrcwdness,
logic, argument and brains. They want
TO be amused, distracted, diverted.
Good sense is tedious after the market
closes, and the woman who talks profit
and loss, supply and demand, premium
and discount in evening dress, in tho
moonlight or at q dinner party, is
nightmare in petticoats, to be cludcd at
the first turn in tho lane. Change is
rest, and, while we hate giggling, we
love gabblo. There is where the CO.
Quctry Of woman wins.
remember riding in an elevated
train beside grizzly man of fifty and
breezy, chatty girl enyeloped in flutter-
ing ribbons, dreamy lace and tho scent
OF wild olives, who was pouring society
chat into her companions ear. When u
lull came in her recital Go you think he
sighed restfully? Not bit of it. Ills
only remark was: Tell me somo more"
CoQuetry is 10 the wine of life what
the sparkle is TO champagne, and there
are women who can no moro help being
coouettish than that delicious draught
can help bubbling.
a pretty lot of nonsense, too, brothers
preach against rice powder, curl papers,
lip rouge and sweet scent. 1t is mat
ter of comment that these dear protect
ed sisters receive more than liberal al
lowance of home. while the veriest
Dolly Warden in the set has her ELL of
the play, the dance and the tennis
court.
The coquette is helped over dangerous
crossings, her packages are picked up
and brushed when she drops them. The
first place at bank window and the
first consideration in the shops are hers.
The coquotte gets tho loveliest flowers,
the most delicious candies, the newest
books and the latest prints in the mar
liet The coquettes receive the idolatry
of men. Their hearts, their hands,
their names, and finally their worldly
goods
She need not make 4 showcase OF her
self nor play the hover garden to the
captivating. \ girl can be absolutely
irresistible in lifteen-cent cambria.
Innocence, youth, beauty, sentiment are
associated with girl in white dress.
Plenty of men shrink from brocade and
passamenetcrie rs fabrics beyond their
income, but the white cambria, the
white null, the white any thing is .
raiment that blots out arithmetical cal
culation.
The coquette may be as wise as Maria
Mitchell, Susan i. Anthony or Abigail
Dodge, but she Will never let man find
it out. She knows too well how they
hate things didactic. And SO she smiles
sweetly, talks gayly and lives te,,llllease.
Here's luck to the little coqucttc. Long
may she wave and never wavor.