Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-29
THE ENHANCING WOMAN
She Is Powerful Factor In the Life of
Modern Brilliant Society.

She Is a Powerful Factor In the Life of
Modern Brilliant Society.
One needs only slight experience in
general society to discover that taste has
separate necessities in different individuals.
and that beauty, wit, STYLE" gift for
light conversation, depth of mind have
each their admirers, fact that sets the
ones on the outside of the especial circum
stance to wondering what there can posi-
bly, be In the particular woman to draw"
Is there woman who is universally en-
trancfngP Is there one who commands
worship swift and entire-a worship i'm
patient of reasoning, that submits to no
authority but that of insight?
III there is we must naturally conclude
that she possesses something that appeals
to more than one side of human nature.
and that does not mean that she has that
diplomacy that in the beginning is perhaps
nothing more than the desire to please the
many, but which often degenerates into
positive insincerity, but rather that I'M
conscious touch upon her kind that comes
from very necessity Of her being
Sorrow and Joy are at the extremes of
human experience, and the woman who
stands at the center stretching sympathetic
hands toward either condition must be the
one who is essentially charming. Like
Tennyson's Rare pale Margaret" sho
stands between the rainbow and the SUM-"
This woman Of the sweet confiding ma
ture, who Is thrilled with the delights of
life, upon whom is flashed all the beauty
and grace in nature and yet who bears
about her evidences that the storms have
ragged at the very center of her soul, and
that she has taken the hand of many
sufferer, to descend in sympathy to the
deepest grave of affliction, is an enchant-
ress. She is the one to whom the young
come with their enthusiasm and youthful
fears and hopes; indeed, so perennial are
the springs of renewal within her nature
that In the passage of the years time seems
to have refused to make its sign upon her,
and yet the middle aged and the old recog-
nize in her friend and helper.
To her the knightliness of the manifest
manhood bows and offers protection Per
haps all men naturally are susceptible to
appeals to the strength Of their arm and
to their bravery of soul, and this some
thing In woman's eyes half revealed, this
touch of sadness, few of the stronger sex
are able to resist.
Such a woman Is beyond the art of the
copyist Spend their efforts as they may
In trying to reproduce the fascinating eff |
fects, women who envy her are never able
to get true copy. Sometimes they mag
inc that the secret may be found in a tone
Of the voice, or, again, in glance Of the |
eye, or In the pose of the figure, but in the I
effort to adapt these TO their own PERSONAL |
ity they meet failure even before the first
trial of their experiment is made public.
But the enhancing woman pays her
price, in a sense, for her power. The rain
bow that is hung in beauty in the sight of
the many to delight, cheer and inspire
them was formed through the mist of her
tears, and when the glorious colors fade
away some turn to behold the lonely figure
that stands amid the clearing mists.-Mary
II, Baldwin in Harper's Bazaar.