Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-23
THE ENHANCING WOMAN.
She Is a Powerful Factor in the Life of
Modern Brilliant Society,"

| She Is 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-
trancing? 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?
Ii 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 IN
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" she
stands between the rainbow and the sun )"
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 a
sufferer, to descend in sympathy to the
deepest grave of affection, 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 it's 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 a 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 tone
of the voice, or, again, in a glance of the
eye, or in the pose of the figure, but in the
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 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
r. Baldwin in Harper's Bazar