The Jersey City news., 1891-12-04
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
Opinions of Artists ON Famous
Ones of 1oday-Different
Types.

Types.
Somebody or other very wise sait
somewhere or other, "a beauty is /,
woman who knows her bad points
and knows how to conceal them.
That sounds very interesting, ant
there's just grain Of truth in it
Some of the most famous beauties the
world has ever known were not beau
ties at all They made people think
they were, though. So it amounted
to the same thing. There's limit to
this sort of nypnotizing power. how
ever. Nothing in the world could
make woman with projecting teeth
and retreating chin look pretty, even
to her most devoted admirers
A woman like that has to be ami
able. Strange as it seems she some
times has devoted admirers.
| Standards of beauty are SO different
that its a puzzling thing TO talk
about, when you come to consider it
in the abstract.
But there are standards, however,
and rules. Strict ironbound rules
that the Greeks knew all about. They
made their artists follow those rules,
too, and that's why one Grecian
maiden looks exactly like every other
Grecian maiden. There was only one
type of them.
Artists today are not so hide-bound.
They have dozen different types
from which 10 choose. They may in
vent types of their own for that mat
ter, and nobody grumbles There is
one singular thing about artists; they
never seem to think popular things
are pretty things.
They usually are not. For exam
pie, woman who sets the town to
raving over her pretty face couldn't
get an hours sitting If she applied at
a studio door as model.
Why not?
The artists do not admire her. They
or there's lack OF that true proper
tion which makes beauty Try to
find out what the true proportion is,
and every artist will give you differ
ent examples.
Emil Carsen says, for instance,
Beautiful woman There's but one
beautiful woman! There she is over
in the corner of my studio. See her
beautiful long eyes, her exquisite, in
comprehensive smile. There's q
woman to 60 mad over. A woman to
dream of. A woman to die for. She's
the Venetian type, you see. Glorious
red hair, the only hair a woman
should ever possess. And what hands
she must have had, slim, graceful,
rosy, aristocratic. All, she's my only
love. l shall never die content until
see her living prototype"
Now, the object of all this adora-
tion is bust. which is called The
Unknown Woman of the Louvre" !"
No one knows the sculptor, and no
one knows her. But artists go mad
over her with charming unanimity.
To the vulgar eye she is just treach-
erous, thin faced woman with an
ugly cap. That's at first sight.
There's a wondrous fascination about
her, though, when she's studied
She's so inscrutable, so battling.
You could live in the house with a
woman like that for years and never
know thing that held possession OF
her heart or her mind. She has the
physiognomy of poisoner. You
could imagine her mixing baleIul'
draught for some enemy with just
that strange evanescent smile.
Yet, if she were to awake from her
marble sleep and walk down kearny
street, today she had been awake for
week we should begin to hear
stories of strange infatuations, of
jealouses and mad heartburnings all
for the sake of this slim woman
whose, name no one knows. At least,
that's what the artists say about her.
THE most beautiful woman alive
today" says Mr.. Carlsen, lis Sarah
Bernhardt. Her back, her shoulders,
her graceful loins, her splendid hair.
her slow, delicious smile, her Sphinx
like eves-ah, they all mean some
thing. She is beautiful. Every at
titude she takes Is a picture, every
glance of her eyes poem. | would
give twenty doll-faced milkmaids Tor
one such face as Bernhardt's. The
Greek face is too dull for my taste,
too regular, too passive. | like the
Venetian type-the feline. type, the
type that has something behind it,"
thusiast as Mr. Carlson, but he, too,
speaks of the Unknown Woman as
his ideal.
Though l must confess / have a
leaning to the classic STYLE" he says,
II like the straight, regular features
and the perfect forms. l do not ad-
mIre buxom women-Mrs. Langtry,
for example. l never look at her
without thinking what a splendidiy
healthful, wholesome, well-cared-for
body she has She looks SO sleek and
we'll groomed. She's fine example
of her type, but do not admire the
type. She's too heavy, too rumin-
ative, too solid, Now, I'll tell you
wh was magnificent woman. Ade-
laide Nelson. She had the most
glorious eyes 1 ever saw-long, mar
row, brilliant. speaking eyes, that
would make plain face beautiful.
Those long eyes are sure sign of
beauty to my mind. / never saw q
commonplace woman who had them.
',The most beautiful living woman?
That is hard to say. Mary Anderson?
Not at all. Too thin, too lank, too
cold. Mrs. Potter? A charming face,
| full of color and arch vivacity. Lillian
Russell?
milk and roses. lovely to look at,
but tritie heavy. Carmencita9
| Chock full of that subtle something