St. Paul daily globe., 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 ot any
Kind Will never produce grace till the
searcher after physical perfection learns
and constantly practices the art of
standing well.
Shakespeare, if Mr.. DonueIly will
allow me 10 credit Henry VIII. TO the
poets genius. says: Two women PLACID
together makes cold weather." [ don't
pretend to know what the Cryptogram-
ist would make of that. bat | do know
that the rest of the world knows it 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 habitually ride
down town on the same car will engage
in conversation, and join each others
toes i'll 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. Bat two women. The
one will eye the other with di>approv-
ing glance which seems to inSin-
uate that the absence of ac-
qualntance quite preciudc5 the pos
Sibility of the others responsibility, and
keep silence all the way from Dan to
BeerShcba. Both would like to talk,
but each is too morta!y afraid of what
the other and Dame GrUndy might think
OF it to open her mouth in speech
Neither meauS to be cold. or diSapprov-
ing, or criticaI-but then it's just
woman's way, for which there is no ae-
counting.
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Balm has been poured Oh the Injured
feelings of the sex unl Justly called the
Vainer. | 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 a
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
Whlte-washed fence of collar that adds
Severalinches 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
charitably. The same photographer
gives it as a result of fifteen years Tex
perlcnce 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 very
bad habit of making faces. Half the
women one knows possess unwelcome
| wrinkles, due to no other cause than
unnecessary and unbecoming grim
acing. They lift their eyebrows every
time they ask question. They shut
their eyes in a 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,
Steamlng. 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 a 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 eX-
preston when she desires to be beauti-
ful. She has studied her face, and she
knows how to control it. As a result.
the queens Of the stage keep their ap-
pearance of youth longer than women