Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28

''Honored be woman, she beams on the sight
Graceful and fair al a being of light


"Fairest OF her daughters" was the
poets description of the first woman, ,
leaving it TO mans Imagination to pic
ture her many charms.
The fairness OF woman has ever been
man IS tenn ptatiou even though they were
chilled "sous of God - because they
were heroes, that the daughters of earth
were fair was sufficient TO win them from
high pursuits, and since the day that
Noah entered the ark until the present
hour woman's fairness continues TO en-
chant. For her adjoining the ships of
Tyre brought purple, fine linen, gold,
silver aud precious stones, when children
danced in the market place she braided
her hair and decked herself in embroid-
cred garments, and to-day me brave all
dangers that ny lady may be attlred as
never was queen in ancient time.
For fair women men have flung away
honor, fortune and fame; her fairness
has rent Kingdoms. destroyed homes and
~' brought death with ignominy. Her fair
ness has inspired some OF the sweetest
poetry IN all languages, and has melted
the most touching appeals of eloquent
orators in all lands. Then is it any mar
vel that woman should prize what
others value so highly? To her the dread
lie not go much that the years are count
ing off life hours, as that an effHcing
finger is marriug the lines of beauty, and
that she cherishes fear that in the loss
of fairness che may mourn the loss Of
that which is dearer to her, the love
that has frightened her life.
1t may not be too much to say that
Sappho's grace and Hypatia g beauty
IN q dianinlaG 10 did
their words OF wisdom and philosophy,
or that the immOralities of the life of
Mary Queen of Scots, have never been
severely judged for the reason that the
halo of beauty which beguiled men of
her time still Eliminates her history.
Had the blind madmen of the French
revolution in their feeling after some OBJ
ject to worship delied beauty rather
than reason the revolt against the new
god might not have been so swift.> The
past confirms what is manifest in the
present, that men worship the beautiful
and find its most attractive form in
woman.
History has no record of any period ID
which female charms were more priced
then now. To be convinced of this it is
only necessary to remember that the
professional beauty first posed in the
present era.
When before was it possible for women
TO attain high social position. TO enter
upon q successful dramatic career with
no other recommendation than beauty
OF fuce and form? And does not every
woman know when she bears
shapely arm or uucovers 8 pretty neck
that it is fairness which wins admira-
tion? Now If it is true, as one of their
hug sold hu n -
instinct as it pnrGdes itself in our con-
ventional masses would rather throw
itself at the feet of physical charms than
walk arm in arm with intrinsic feminine
worth, by whose fault Is il that women
cultivate and exhibit these charms, and
TO whose account are to he placed the
alleged failures that are at present
occupying the attention of writer's of
fiction and of essayists?
1t Is not in the spirit of arrangement,
however, that this is written, but it is in
declaration that on woman's white
shoulders all the blame of what is iu-
Weighed against ought not to rest. Her
beauty is q precious gift, heaven-given
let her so esteem II, let her guard it
and secure ii as far as possible from
the ravages of time and of care.
But while be5towing every care
upon il let her never lose sight of the
more important truth that her attractive
body is designed for temple. Far,
indeed, and beauteous TO behold, but yet
q temple for the lndwelling spirit of
purity and holiness. That her chefest
jewels are those that waken in mems
hearts noble instincts; that she is to
teach him TO love her because that the
external fairness he delights in only
typifies a beauty which it remains for
pure eyes to discern aud clean hearts to
revel in.
Men of good instincts feel that veil
separates true womeuifron the coarser
elements of life, and Us the high priest
in the Judaic economy purified himself
with many ceremonies on passing into
the hottest, so would they be fitted to
enter into what they conceive to be
woman's hallowed sphere. Let not
women dsenchant them. 1t is woman's
privilege to be beautiful in the eyes of
man, but behind the beauty, that is
merely physical, let the real woman be
hidden; as the glowing canvas hides the
painter, and as the statue that breathes
because the soul of the sculptor has
hidden; never once permitting the
sensual aud Toluptuous to uncrown the
glory OF that divine beauty which is
woman's noblest endowment.
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