Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-24
COQUETRY AND BEAUTY!
Susceptibility Of Mem 20 FfivolttJ
and Simplicity. 49,.
C0qu0ttSa Seem % Command . RrOniHD
while Br1iuy Women Arc at DE-
OOOnt-ThO MAaoulIRe Mind Tired
- POdantto Lectures.

than beauty, asserts . writer in the
New York World. Sho inherits . bet
ter legacy than wealth, for while money
gives life its cushion beauty gives it
color and coquetry makes it sparkle.
The coQuette will go on with her con-
quests while there Is . man left in the
world with heart in his bosom. There
is o woman in Now York who keeps q
big boarding-school for the educa
ton of coQuettes, and instead
of walking on rose leaves she treads on
golden eagles. Seats at her perform
ancos are secured two years in advance,
and to make tho application you pay
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-keys. Aspirants for
degrees can 60 to the 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. Hore coquetry is fostered
and no secret made about it, either.
Square shoulders are rounded into De
Milo grace; fiat soles are raised by ju-
sheltered by kiss curls; harsh voices
lowered whole tone; angular elbows
turned in; still joints loosened and
every symptom OF a strong mind rigidly
suppressed. The pupil IL sweetoned,
softened and curved. She is carefully
instructed to know nothing and to do
nothing that will rob o grace or mar .
smile.
And does shc pay?
Doesn't she.
Drop her in tho village lane or quiet
promenade of her native city and see If
she is not gobbled up by the most prom
Using young lawyer or most prominent
bachelor in tho town.
This Is q serious, angular old world.
Men are sick and tirod Of shrowdness,
logic, argument and brains. They want
to BIO amused, distracted, diverted.
Good sense Is tedious after the market
closes, and tho woman who talks profit
and loss, supply and demand, premium
and discount in evening dress, in tho
moonlight or at dinnor party, is
nightmare in potticoats, to be eluded at
tho first turn in the lanc. Change Is
rest, and, while we hate giggling, We
love gabble. There Is where the CO.
quetry Of woman wins.
1 remember riding in IN elevated
train beside n grizzly man Of fifty and
breezy, chatty girl enveloped in flutter-
ing ribbons, dreamy lace and tho scent
OF wild olives, who was pouring society
chat into her companions ear. When o
lull came in her recital do you think no
sighed restfuliy? Not bit Of it. His
only remark was: Tell mo some MORE"
Coquetry Is 70 the wine OF life what
tho sparkle Is to champagne, and there
arc women who can no moro help being
coquettish than that delicious draught
can help bubbling.
pretty lot Of nonsense, too, brothers
preach against rico powder, curl papers,
lip rouge and sweet scent. 1t Is q mat
ter OF comment that these dear protect
cd sisters roceivo moro than liberal al-
lowanco Of homo, while tho veriest
Dolly Varden in the set has her fill Of
tho play, tho dance and tho tennis
court.
The coquctte Is helped over dangerous
crossings, her packages, arc picked up
and brushed whom sho drops Thorn. Tho
first place at bank window and tho
first consideration in tho shops arc hcrs.
Tho coquetto gets tho lovelicst flowers,
tho most delicious candies, the newest
books and tho latest prints in the mar
kot. The coquettes recoive tho idolatry
OF men. e. Their hearts, their hands,
their names, and finally their worldly
goods.
She, need not make showcase OF her.
self nor play the flower garden to the
captivating. A girl can DO absolutely
irresistible In y ffteen-cent cambria.
Innocence, youth, beauty, sentiment are
associated with girl in white dress.
Plenty OF men shrink from brocade and
passameneterie as fabrics beyond their
income, but the white cambria, the
white null, tho white any thing Is q
raiment that blots out arithmetical cal.
culntion.