The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-02-08
THE SECRET OE BEAUTY.
It Lies as Much in Manners as 1t Does in
Features.

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What has beauty to do with love?
Here is question harder to answer
than to ask. We all have known that
there is some sort of connection between
them, but it is hard to define. Poets have
often tried to define it, but, like other
mortals, have failed. John Keats comes
as near it, perhaps, as any of them when
he says:
Beauty is truth truth is beauty-that is all
Ye know on earth. and all We needs to know"
That which we know to be true is
more beautiful than that which we know
or suspect of being false.
Haven't you known persons who
seemed beautiful in your eyes until you
discovered that they were not what they
seemed? AS long as they impressed
you as being true they were beautiful,
but the first line of mistrust made them
ugly.
You can not love the false in nature.
You may admire it and you may be fas-
cinated by it, but you can not love it.
A milliner-made, hand-painted woman
may win your admiration and she may
fascinate you, but she can never win
your true love. This is true, because
nature has made it so. The true and
false go side by side, but never hand in
hand
The man who mistakes fascination for
love is in great danger of being led into
a path of misery. His affections will
not be returned, neither Will his kind
ness or gentleness be appreciated,
She alone is truly beautiful who is
true. Her face may not be pretty nor
her form exactly sylph-like, yet she is
beautiful in the eyes of him who be-
lieves in her.
May the fellow not use little pow
der, or the pale-checked indulge in a
tinge of rouge?
Certainly they may because it is tho
duty of every woman to look well.
1t is the duty of every girl, young
lady, married woman and old maid to be
just as handsome as she can.
To do this she need not resort to ex-
ceSsive padding, extensive dyeing or
lavish painting. Indeed she need not
resort TO padding at all, because fashion
is so very liberal that the thin are al
lowed to wear loose, flowing gowns,
while the stout wear theirs as tight as
the skin. Tan and sunburn are also
fashionable, as that dark, and even
tawny compilations are not only allowa-
BILE, but quite the thing.
Beauty lies as much in manners as in
features.
If our girls and young women keep
this in mind, and strive to be well-man-
nered, they would not be so much in
clined to paint, powder and dress in
fussy fashion.
1t is tho well-mannered lady who feels
most at ease in public, and attracts the
most respectful attention. She may not
excite as much comment as her fashy
and highly colored sister, but her
chances for happiness and prosperity
are much better.
Some ladies feel flattered to have
gentlemen turn and look after them on
the street, to gaze at them in public and
make remarks about their shape. Could
they hear the side remarks that are
made they might not feel as highly flat
tered.
Neatness in dress and quietness in
manners are two things that never fail
to win the honest admiration of re-
spectacle, virtuous men.
Many woman has won the affection
of a good man by the neatness and tidi-
ness of her dress, and lost it by becom-
ing negligent and slovenly after mar
riage.-Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.