San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-21
What is Beauty.
Baltimore Sun.

rise to more differences of opinion
than the beauty Of individuals. The
artists have standards OF beauty that
serve we'll enough for the ideal face
on canvas or for the marble statue,
but these standards have little appli-
cation to the human countenance as
found In men, and women. Some OF
the disagreements respecting profess
sional beauty arise from the fact that
some people regard the artistic stand
ards, while others care little tor regu-
larity of features, but see beauty only
in the mobile face and expressive
eyes. A woman may gain reputation
as a beauty because of her regu-
lar features and fine complexion,
yet disappoint thousands who
90 to see her because her
beauty is that of tho mar BILE
stutue and lacks expression. On the
other hand a woman quite homely
when her features are in repOse may
by her vivacity and charming express
sion when in animated conversation
earn the tributes paid to her beauty.
Hamlet says that "there is nothing
| either good or bad but thinking
makes it So" and this is particularly
true of beauty. The face of a
stranger that appears commonplace,
or even homely, may be trans
formed by the power of love into an
object of beauty. 1t is thinking
makes it so. When the stranger be-
comes the friend or lover, one looks
below the surface. The irregular fea-
lures, disfigured skin or other physi-
cal faults having become familiar to
sight, pass unnoticed, but the chang
ing expression, the kindly smile, the
loving glance of the eye, revealing, as
it seems, something of the soul-these
are seen, and give the inn
preston of beauty, especially
to one who loves in re-
turn. Astonishing differences of
opinion respecting beauty are due to
this condition. for opinions are based
not merely on the form, color, ETC., of
the person who is the subject of dis
pute, but upon the feelings enter
tanned for him or her. The stranger
tract the lover to his mistress. Love,
instead of being blind, sees that
which TO other eyes is non-existent.
There is receipt for becoming beau
tiful that can transform irregu-
ldT l6dUuT6S DIS well dS ILL
prove the complexion, and that
is-be good. So much de-
ponds upon expression that it is more
to be regarded than any fleeting adj
vantage of form or color. 1t is fact,
too, that expression depends largely |
upon disposition. A recent writer on
physiognomy lays particular stress
upon the Importance of regarding !
both the form of the face in repose |
and its expression. Many of the |
earlier writer's on this subject at
tempted to judge character by the |
form of the face, and Of course failed,
because the shape, the proportions of |
features and similar characteristics |
depend mainly upon bony forma-
tions having little relation with the |
elements that make up character. |
The mobile parts and the eyes are
elements controlled in large measure |
by the feelings or emotions. They |
give expression by which character
may be more or less accurately |
judged, and hence are of more i'm
portance than the forms and pro-
portions which the old physiOgnO-
mists chiefly considered. Good and
kindly men and women usually have
their amiable disposition reflected in
their countenances. AS they grow in
years the lines become fixed. Their
habitual expression is one pleasant |
to look upon. Whatever physical
faults their faces may present are
counterbalanced by expression. One
cannot think of the good as personitied
in anything but the beautiful, or of the
bad as personified by anything but
that which is ugly. But in living
men and women this beauty
or ugliness is to be sought not so
much in form or feature as in
expression. If it he true, as some
actors have testified, that aC-
quired expressions have a reflex
aCtiOn-thaC when actors look gay |
they feel happy; that when they
change the expression TO one OF anger
their emotion also changes then |
kindly people uuCOnsCiOusly promote !
their own happiness by the good deeds
that find expression in their faces.
They promote, too, their own beauty |
in the best sense, for there is nothing |
more beautiful to one who is privilege
ed to see it than the light in q loved |
ones eye revealing q pure and attec- |
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