The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-03
BEAUTY OF CHILDHOOD
Easier to Photograph Than
That Of Maturity.
ATTRACTIVENESS OF AMERICAN LITTLE ONES
The Blending of Types-Loyeliness
of Expression and
Features.

Photographs of children are most ar
tistic and satisfactory productions, for
beautiful children, unlike beautiful wom-
en-, usually makes equally beautiful pic
lures. So says a writer in the Photo
american, who pursues this theme in
ibis pleasant style:-The chief reason of
the difference in results is that the So
called beautiful woman is rarely beauti-
full in so far as form and features are con-
cerned when compared with classic mod
els. A woman may have a pleasant per-
sonality, q sweet expression, q pretty kin
and eyes or hair, and II lovely character
which produces the effect of a beautiful
impression on the minds of her riends
She may acquire a reputation for beauty,
when every feature is slightly out of pro-
portion, or when some features are posi-
lively ugly. All this comes out in Il pie
ture, and people instantly critlcise the
artist. 1t is a well known sentiment
among the painters and sculptors that
they dread having the woman whose
friends all consider her beautiful as the
subject of their skill, for they know
that all will expect a reproduction
of their impression of the woman and
not of the woman herself. So. mature
beauty often is temperamental and not
physical.
With children everything is different.
They are natural, tractable, and the I'M
possible is not expected of artist or pho
t%ographer. An adult in sitting To the
artist endeavors to assume the expression
he or she desires to wear in the picture.
Few artists eau divert her mine from the
fact thai she is being recorded. A child
knows nothing about expression, has no
vanity or desire to look its best.
One may touch the spring OF a mechanl-
cal toy, aud the subject smiles in interest
at the manoeuvre. Now confidence be-
tween the artist and his subject is the
first element of success, not only with
children, but quite as much with adults.
Art is being SO much studied and cultl-
waited in the present day that it often
crops out in the dressing of children, and
the charms of the little maids and mas
tiers are much enhanced by picturesque
and quaint costumes. While child beauty
unadorned and undraped is the more
classic, the present style Of dress in vogue
among the cultured and wealthy is often
in the highest degree artistic.
While the English children are sturdy
and suolid, the German healthy and
phlegmatic. the French nervous and at
tenuated, the American child combines a
little of all the characteristics fused In
the heat of the vivacious American tenn
permanent into brittany of mental power
and faultlessness of physical proportions.
The children of purely American par
entage are usually a type which may be
called by the somewhat contradictory
term of blonde brunettes. as they display
that rare style of beauty which consists
of dark eyes and fair hair, and the girls
generally grow up iuto the brown haired
women, SO common among American
beauties.
They are as a rule intellectual and pre-
cocious far beyond their years, with faces
full of expression aud vivacity. Then
there is the Germau-American type, with
the profusion of fair hair, hne n light
as floss, the exquiSitely tinted skin and
clear blue eyes, while the mixing OF the
races is more apparent i'll the outlines OIL
the features than in the coloring. These
children are usually of a somewhat more
robust physique and plump and pleasing
proportions.
Another class of dainty beauties in
pinatores are the Irish-American chill
uren, with their dark brown or black
tresses and deep blue or dark grey eyes.
with heavy dark lashes, ana the peculiar
exquisite fair skin, with pink tints in its
white warmth like the petals which lie
nearest the heart OF a blush rose. "A child
with that complexion usually grows into
a woman who can wear all tlnts and
shades so well that every color is grateful
for the beauty she lends it in the wear
ing. There is just a trace of the Cork
and Killarney about this type, and the
smile is usually OF Il kind that lights the
eyes with merry, sparkling radiance.
The old idea that beautiful children sell
dom grow into handsome adults is fast
losing ground in the enlightenment OF
the present cycle, in which beauty aud
health are Synonymous terms, mothers
realizing thoroughly that aiet, rest and
exercise in childhood are not only the
promulgators of beauty theu, but the
precursors of future loneliness as well.
pNI,a,, ;a.10,slu Ernnpd tha umynatrion
development of mind and body. accord
ing to the principle evolved by the most
intelligent study and research on The sub
ject of child rearing.