Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-04-02
CHANCES AT NATIVE BEAUTY.
What the Genuine Article Consists of and
Where 1t Is to BE Found.

What the Genuine Article Consists of and
Where 1t Is to BE Found.
With all due respect to the fair sub
jects who are now passing through the
press as representative beauties of
America, l, az judge of female lowell
ness, frankly say; "rhey 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-cheeked schoolgirl, sweet as a
pink, fragrant as spice blossom, and
fair as the early blush of dawn, for
bedecked, bediamonded and behattered
queen of society, who has lost all the
freshness of beautiful youth in social
lionizing? Are we to seek for the pref
test roses in lighthouses? Must we
bend all homage and fawn with subjec
ton to our forced flowers of beauty, So
called, when the sweet springs by wood
land ways glow with tender violetsP
When the rude bush and bramble 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 two 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.
viii the writer who glanced, merely
Glanced, at native beauty, come and
,O0k at native beauty? I'll assure you
no. The modest star-eye that bends by
the ripping stream, has but small at
traction to the professional gldncer 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 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 sutton who wooes the hand and
sues the heart OF one OF the pronounced
types of native beauty emblazoned in
the pages of a 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 l affirm that it doesn't consist
of notoriety in the plains of social
life. A perfect blonde, a ravish-
ing and exquisite brunette, dancing,
mincing, chattering, or world-wise
creature in gowns, laces, diamonds,
and a long line of blue-blooded stock
and a long line of present affiuence isn'I
perfect type of American beauty,