The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-26
CHANCES At NATIVE BEAUTY.
what the Genuine Article Consists Of and
Where 1t IL to He Found.

W. n0t the GENUINE Aftlcl0 0On8lHIo Oh ana
Where 1t IL to he Found.
With all due respect to the fair sub
jects who are now passing through the
press as representative beauties Of
America, /, as q judge of female lowell
ness, frankly say: They are not types
of American beauty" First. the beauty
of any woman becomes lost when a
brief sketch of the same tells all about
her high standing, her social attain
ments, her blue blood, her wealth and
ancestry. Do we, as Americans, re-
quire peculiar strains of blood to ele-
vate our beauties to certain high STAN
dards? Who is it that passes by the
rosy checked schoolgirl, sweet as q
pink, fragrant as a spice blossom, and
fair as the early blush of dawn, for
bedecked, bediamonded and befiattered
queen of society, who has lost all the
freshness of beautiful youth in social
lionizing? Are we to seek for the pref
tiest roses in hot-houses? Must we
bend all homage and fawn with subjec-
tion to our forced flowers of beauty, So
called, when the sweet springs by wood
land ways glow with tender violets?
When the rude bush and bra:nble bring
forth rarer. fairer buds than ever yet
were forced under the feverish heat of
fashions sun-houses? They spring
from families that make history in civil
and polite life. They have been pro-
nounced as professional beauties-not
all, but most of them-by critics of two
hemispheres. They are beauties-but
beauties alone to the tE social worlds
that know, own, claim and are proud of
them. But they are as far from the
perfect beauty of the American type of
fair womanhood, as is the forced grape
from the sun-kissed and zephyr-blown
bulb that hangs in the free air Of
heaven.
Will the writer who glanced. merely
glanced. At native beauty, come and
look at native beauty? Ill assure you
no. The modest star-eye that bends by
the ripping stream, has but small at
traction to the professional glancer at
American beauty, when the hot glow of
the social plant, with all its rich and
brilliant glare is in his eyes. Is there
any call or necessity for the pure native
beauty to crawl back into the dusty,
musty and fusty archives Of old days for
blood strains to sustain her present
paramount ascendancy? Does the man
who bows in servile homage before the
glittering shrine of q professional
beauty, so heralded and advertised in
types black and white, ever think for a
moment that all charm would be lost
were the favored one to don rustic
gowns and drive lowing kline through
green pastures and blackberry bramble?
Does the suitor who wooes the hand and
sues the heart Of one of the pronounced
types Of native beauty emblazoned in
the pages Of magazine and scattered
broadcast over the land, stop to realize
how little charm there would be in that
velvet tone Of voice if it were grooming
. queer old song over the dasher of a
plain old-fashioned crock churn? wot
not. Frankly. what does beauty among
American women consist of? AS
frankly | affirm that it doesn't consist
of notoriety in the plains Of social
life. A perfect blonde, ravish-
ing and exquisite brunette, a dancing,
mincing, chattering, or world-wise
creature in gowns, laces, diamonds.
and long line of blue-blooded stock
and q long line of present aftiuence isn't
perfect type of American beauty.
Such an one may be q model of perfec-
ton in the eyes Of the few, but the
eyes of the few are meager compared
to the eyes of the many. Go over the
entire list of the galaxy Of portraitured
types of native beauty and you will not
find one that the world has not heard OF
before. Go over the entire list from
first to last and you will not find one
whose family associates are not pain.
fully impressed upon the readers fancy
TO back the objects right or reason for q
place in this niche Of fame. Isn't q
beautiful girl, born and raised in com
| mon Danube, Herkimer county, N. Y,
Gs beautiful "a the queen of New Or