The Republican., 1892-10-14
WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE.
Many Women In Looks and Actions X
semble Animals.

semble Animals.
It doesn't take very observing per-
son to notice that many women in their
looks and actions resemble animals
For instance, there is the tall, WELL
built graceful creature, with hair
which seems bristling with life, white,
even cruel little teeth, eyes which seem
to catch and hold in their depths all the
shades from gray to green, and nervous,
beautifully formed hands Such a wo-
man never. hurries, but even carries
with her an air of repression that seems
to tell the onlooker that the lazy half
stride could be changed at moments
notice into spring and the white hands
and teeth made to do their duty. This
type is the human embodiment of the
panther, graceful and handsome but
dangerous. Then there is the round
little body with smooth brown hair
and gentle caressing manner, who has
a purring voice and soft velvety hands.
She is the type that represents the faith
full little tabby, who never shows its
claws, but hugs the fireside content to
bask in the rays of abundant family af
lection.
BY the way, why is it a woman never
objects to being compared to a kitten,
but is nightly indignant if some one
ventures to call her an old cat? Same
family, only grown up, yet she never
brides and smiles over the latter appel
lation as she does when the former is
applied to her. Surely the ways of wo-
men are past finding out. But this is
diverging.
There are women with long pointed
noses and chins to match, and small
beady eyes that are continually on the
alert, who can only be compared to the
ferret. Asa rule their dispositions tally
with their appearance, and busybody
results. Little, frightened looking crea-
lures, with startled eyes. eyebrows
archcd in continual surprise and man
ner that hints of the hunter are always
suggestive of the hare, who, finding
itself in an open field, pauses only long
enough to scent the danger from afar
and then scamper for dear life off to the
woods beyond. Very few women re-
semi dogs, save the Skye terrier type
which is very prevalent with the tan
gled coiffurc, the penetrating gaze and
the little wagging way, suggestive of
the worryings of these very much be-
banged cousins. Hens with their cacllle
and their sharp bills abound, and the
snake, though hardly to be classed as
an animal, we regret to say lives and
breathes in the personality of many a
| woman.
Perhaps the mild-eyed COW finds more
representatives than any other type.
Gentle, meditative, beautifully gowned,
in continuous unrutfied calm, with a
contemplative gaze that looks out upon
the world with a little of child-li like
wonder in the brown orbs. This sort
| of woman is the one who is never moved
to any great depths Of feeling, yet is a
truly lovable and delightful creature.
Such a one is to be trusted, where the
panther, ferret and cackling hen should
be given a wide berth Perhaps there
is something in the theory that tells us
of another existence in which we be-
| longed to the lower order of animals
and we are in this age exemplifying the
type we represented in ages past. BE
that as it may, women and men have in
them the characteristics oil certain ami
mails which the student of human ma
! ture does not find it hard to read.-Chi-
| coro NeuS