St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-08

much at first because it straightens
them out as they should be. A million
uninterrupted years of club swinging,
posing. bending or exercising o. any
kind will never produce grace till the
searcher after physical perfection learns
and constantly practices the art of
standing well.
Shakespeare, if Mr.. Donnelly will
allow me TO credit Henry VIII. TO the
poets genius, says: Two women PLACID
together makes cold weather." I don't
pretend to know what the Cryptogram-
ist would make of that. bat | do know
that the rest of the world knows il is
true. Why one woman should look at
another, TO whom she has never been
introduced. as if she were her mortal
enemy, have never been able to find
out. Two men who habitualy ride
down town on the same car will engage
in conversation, and join each others
toes III the most friendly way lmagin-
able, even if they have never been in
troduced. Neither Of them seems to
realize the Nervousness Of discussing
the weather probabilities with Il man
of whose name and pedigree he is abso-
lutely ignorant. But two women. The
one will eye the other with d di,approv-
ing glance which seems to insin-
uate that the absence of ac-
quaIntance quite precludes the pos
Slbility of the other responsibility, and
keep silence all the way from Dan to
BeerShcba. Both would like to talk,
but each is too mortallv afraid of what
the other and Dame GrUndy might think
OF it to open her mouth in speech
Neither mealS to be cold. or disapprov-
ing, or criticaI-but then it's Just
woman's way, for which there is no ae-
counting.
Balm has been poured Oh the injured
feelings of the sex unjuStly called the
vainer. l have it on the AUTHORITY of a
prominent photographer that the vain
est and most difficult Sitters are invari-
ably men. Of course, he did not include
babies, who are really not sitters but
squirmers. When man goes to be
photographed he has his mind set on
particular style of picture, and he wants
his just like that. If he is short
no power on earth can convince him
that three-quarters length portrait will
not make him appear nine feet tall. at
least; and If he has q particularly
lengthy neck, he surrounds it with a
whitewashed fence of collar that adds
severalfnches to its apparent length. Now
woman doesn't care at all what the
picture is like. just SO it brings out her
good features, and treats the bad ones
charltably. The same photographer
gives it as result of fifteen years Tex
perlence IN his operating room-which
same expression always makes me think
OF medical college-that most wom-
ems noses incline to the left, while
those of the other sex bend toward the
right. And yet, when men follow their
noses, how far wrong they some
times go.
Few women are free from the vefy
bad habit of making faces. Half the
women one knows possess unWelcome
wrinkles, due to no other cause than
unnecessary and unbecoming grim
aclng. They lift their eyebrows every
time they ask a question. They shut
their eyes in nest of wrinkles when
ever they laugh, and fearfully and won
derfullY distort their lips and chins
when they smile. They allow their
faces to fall into peevish expressions in
repose. and then, when a particularly
bright light on the mirror some day re-
veals frighttul number of wrinkles.
they rush off and resort to massage.
Steaming, face masks, lotions and every
other known agency to remove the tell
tale creases. There is no remedy for
wrinkle save the destruction of ITS
cause. A galvanized grin is not smile,
nor is meeting between eyebrows
and scalp necessary to express sur
prise. The only real beauty is beauty
of expression, which is entirely within
the power of every woman to acquire.
An actress who is mistress Of her art
will never put on an unbecoming eY-
preston when she desires to be beauti-
full. She has studied her face, and she
knows how to control it. AS a result,
the QneenSS OF the stage keep their ap-
pearance of youth longer than women