The morning call., 1892-10-13
BEAUTY and COMPLETELY
Edmund Russell Surprises
the Young Ladies.
DON'T WEAR KID GLOVES.
We Receive IN Three Phrases, Says the
Apostle Of Delsarte, and Should Throw
Away Five-Cent Pieces.
DON'T WEAR KID GLOVES.
IAN beautiful things are complex !"

Fifty intellectual young ladies craned fifty
intellectual heads forward and listened with
all their intellectual mighs What heresy
was this. The beautiful is the simple. or
the textbooks are wrong. Did they hear
arightP Yes: there it was again
"All beautiful things are complex.
Miss SHELLS young ladies listened harder.
'Delsarte'S definition of the beautiful was
that which was most complex. He made
completely an essential of beauty. AS a
thing is more complex it is the NJ ore beau
tifuL Without cOmplexity there is no
beauty"
"Haye we read John Ruskin rightly, or Is
Edmund Russell wr0ng?" thought these
fifty intellectual young ladies. but they said
nothing. only thought hard and listened
intenty.
Take the human voice When it's sim
pie it's positively ugly, like this" and
Edmund Russell talked through his nose.
The intellectual young ladies smiled.
THE human voice has been compared TO
an orchestra by Delsarte. 1t is not one
note. but many, and all must be cultivated
ana employed In verbal expressions"
Yes, yes; but what of beauty being COM
plex? What of RuskinP What Of
1T Is the blending together OF the many
that makes the simplicity that is beautiful"
The fifty intellectual young ladies gave
fifty inaudible signs of relief. "Ah, yes,
we have read RuSkin wrongful Then
they settled back in their fifty school
benches more at ease, but still attentive to
the fascinating creature in beautiful light
tweed sack suit WHO was walking up and
down the narrow platform, mimickiDg and
gesturing and talking in rich, full voice
that smacked just charming trilie OF the
effeminaJe.
Provided there is harmony in all the
parts. Not cOmplexity alone is essential TO
the beautiful, but complexity that blends
all things into al harmonious. simple whole.
Man is a trinity; everything IS trinity.
Mans expression Is chord OF language.
itself a trinity. The first note is purely
personal, the animal language-the gTOan,
the Sigh, the laugh-the language that is
common to all organic life. The second
tone is that OF language In which we express
cur relation to inanlmate things about us.
The third is gesture, which goes out to others
of our kind. This last is the unbendDg Of
ourselves toward others.
Some Of tie Intellectual young ladies
looked puzzled. What did II all mean?
But they kept listening.
I'VE don't study articulation" saws the
Russell with charming gesture of insist
| ence and depreciation. Then he explained
what Delsarte said articulation was.
| Now, smoking ruins articulation. II
| puts the lips to other uses than that for
/ which they were made. With C gar In
mouth the words tumble down and back
into tile throat.
That is wrong The mouth emphasizes
| the language CT the eyes. When one talks
with the ewes alone the expression is lost.
| When the eyes look stern, the mouth must
| be drawn TO emphasize it.
many people keep their mouths open
when there is no need of it. That shows
weakness. When the lower lip drops, that
/ shows seusuality."
Was there an open mouth in that class
room? 1t was quickly and firmly closed.
| But the lips must not be too tightly
| drawn. II denotes hardness and we see the
/ mental picture OF q man counting his
/ change"
Were there mouths tightly drawn? They
were relaxed
THE lips should just touch each other.
! Once | saw very beautiful man, but v hen
| he began TO talk had no interest IN him. |
| wanted to get away from him. His articu-
| lstion was bad. He had no gesture, no ex-
| preston. When he spoke the fascination OF
! his fare vanished.
"Once | asked a court lady how she bowed
! to the King / felt like laughing rig hit out
| when she showed me. Her bow began at
4 the feet and went upward to the knees.
! When / asked her, did You ever see rever-
| ence expressed by the knees?'
when this lady bowed low 10 the King
her head and torso remained stiff. only the
lower limbs bending. Now, reverence be-
gins with the head, works down 10 the heart,
and finally moves the whole body. Let me
show you"
Edmund Russell bent low with wonderous
grace.
Delicious" murmured Miss SMELLS intel
lectual young ladies.
you should see Savini. His whole
body moves in simply saying yes or no
| People, you know, have become bad by
trying to be good. They hold back their
natures; that's the evil, No good comes
! from holding back ones impulses. With
| few exceptions our impulses are good. We
/ should give them full play. We should be
| natural.
There's three things in gesture-the
| trinity agsin-oDposlton, parallelism, sue
cession They mean assertion. submission
and the natural"
Then the Russell told now to receive.
| Not by walking up to the guest with out
stretched hand. The hand must not be ex-
tended till the head and heart have spoken.
ave receive a person in three phrases"
/ "Ah! murmured the intellectual listeners.
and they drank in with rapture the beauti-
! full, poesy motions, the rhythm. and the
rhyme of the RusselPs gestures and move
ments as he illustrated the three phrases,
| each phrase terminating with an actual
handshake of an intellectual young lady
more fortunate than ordinary mortals.
"SOme persons are above dress considera-
| tons" went on the Russell, himself in
| faultless attire. 1--WE must study dress. 1t
| Is most important knowledge to know
how to clothe ones self properly with due
relation to a complete harmony with the
completely Of ones mental, moral and
physical being.
Wear gloves as little as possible. They
give your hands and arms the stiff. kid
| glove action. Better carry your gloves in
your hand. TO show you have them, though
they're not such wonderful things to have
I'm all things let out your true nature
your impulses. Beware of self-conscious-
ness. Practice generous gymnastics by
throwing fye-cent pieces out Of The window.
If you have no generous impulses you
should cultivate them"
The Russell stopped talking and went
and stood by the open window Miss
SHELLS intellectual young ladies sighed and
| went TO dinner J. H. GRIFFFs