Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

brunette coloring? My own experience |
"a that the dark-skinned, dark-eyed, |
rather stately women of my acquaint-
ance are those most easily understood |
most easily managed and prepared for.
Asa rule, o large brunette is timld,
physically and morally, self distrusttnI'
credulous, very accomplishing and easiiy
contented. Among the far, small VIVID
blondes find the restless souls who move
the world, the ardent enthusiasts, tue
feminine CHECKERS, - as that word has
come TO be used, the Zouaves OF the
woman's army. The blonde has her
violent fancies, but seldom grand pas
sion; she expects TO receive QHtts
as much as she gives in devotion, sen-
sacrifice and consideration. She IS IN
deed often very exacting, and not ln-
frequently tyranniZes very sharply over
her so-calIed lord; but still she makes an
excellent wife, for she is clever, snreWu'
and sees the points of advantage IN the
social business or ambitious career OF the
connubial firm good deal more quickly
than her husband will. She is not
verv tender wife, however, nor even
tender mother, having too many other
strings in hand to give very much atten-
| ton TO baby's leading strings; but her
! sons grow up TO respect her authority,
! and she places her daughters in mar
rage or in some vocation with firm aud
assured hand.
| I do not know whether l like her or
nv gentle, doeile brunette the best, ana
| 7 do not know which to call the pest
woman, for each is best in her own way
And after all, the great army or
women are neither blonde nor brunette
but mezzo- tinted, with complexions IN
eariy youth of peach and cream, rather
than milk and roses, or pomegranate
and oamellla, with brown hair of various
shades and grayish blue eyes, and among
these women l discover all the virtues
| and all the vices of both blonde anu
brunette, and am inclined to think that
in this question, as in so many others,
the truth lies between the two extremes,
and if I had to choose fifty women to
colonize some new Island of Hesperldes,
I should not choose a single blonde or
brunette of pure type, but compose a
symphouy of meZzo- coloring, voices,
temperaments, figures, feeling pretty
sure that these would blend in sweeter
and more satisfying harmony than the
more piuuant and piercing tones of the
blonde or the sweet monotony of the
brunette, And after all, we each one oil
us have personal experiences and personal
preferences which bias our judgment IL
this respect; we love this man
or that woman, and for the
time we believe that just that style OF
beauty is the ideal we have Away:
held. We havn't, and by and by we
J shall smile at our own delusion and
fatty contradict our fatuous theories
but while it lasts. and even perhaps II
memory, we shall cling to the admlra-
ton of blonde or bruno in general, be-
2 cause once in particular we loved
r blonde or bruno.
3 Another point to be considered nova
l DAYS, however, is, what Is her natura
colOring?
For SO many persons copy Queen Eliza
j beth, who had hundred wigs as well a.
3 a hundred gowns, and wore whateVe
, style of complexion she chose!
i The ladies of to-day are not so fran
t about it, but we most all have watche
some startling metamorphoses in thi
d direction, and do not know why bru
d nette who feels herself endowed with
d blonde temperament may not express
d outWardly and vIsibly.
d So, having discussed the question IN a
o its bearings, we must, after all, ''lay
,e on the table, - as our legislators do tn
: questions whose true inwardness lies to
|, deep for them, and rest upon the conclu
: sion that as it ever has been, so it sha
h be. and we shall all of us consider thu
te, style the most charming which cloth'
se tne being we most dearly love.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE.