Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-05

qW\N beautiful. 1 am not
even pretty. My
hair. eyes and com
pieNlon are OF no particular color. and yet
they are all of one color. My features are
not cast in classic mould nor is my form
statuesque, and yet, Notwithstanding all
thls, L am quite satisfied with my appear
ance. since / possess something better and
more lasting than all the beauty in the
world, and that is-style"
Her fair companion before the speech
reached its triumphant close, was framing
a polite little demur to these slanderous SEN
timents, but its self-satisfied climax chang
ed her courtesy to contention, and she re-
piled with some spirit:
Better than beauty Well, defy Won 10
ma woman who agrees with you
III course, not you, or any other beauti-
full woman, for you roses and lilies OF senoi
ninity haven't been Obliged 10 reflect on
your appearance, as have We plain ones;
You nave had only TO accept your sweet ia re-
and bask in the sun OF approving looks bnt
am plain.and know 1t, and after thinking
affairs since l am not denied withsi The
Well Why" inquired the beauty with
The why OF 1t.
why. because style lasts through life.
while beauty is of youth. Because beauty
has certain standard OF looks to preserve,
while style has not every year or SO see
~ OOHAp4ttt TtNOlullOO IN the IDEALS of
fashion. Because style requires less har-
rowing study than beauty, since IL has sim
ply to put on what the rest of the world is
garbed In, while beauty must wear itself
thin IN It's efforts 20 avoid getting some
thing that Is going to make it look less love
~ than LIST year Because style is every day
pracucaiity-the bread and meat OF life
While beauty is far-fetched romance-the
cake ard confectionery. Because style is
boon to the plain mass of humspis
", while beauty only is appropri-
effected By even the elderly, when beauty
must be let severely alone and thus age
loses its sting. and time it's victory. Be
cause style can be attained and kept by
any one with any eyes, and a shark OF in
genuity, and irnitativeness while beauty is
larsey an endowment of birth that soon
She paused and drew a long breath be-
fore continuing.
Now. If you were obliged TO travel from
the highlands TO some low-lying plains
wouldn't You rather do II by a route that
led YOU over a gradual and almost imper-
ceptfbie descent than to 90 bv a road that
ran for awhile through a strictly level coun-
try. but which shortly plunged You into a
with di;flcu!ty, only TO have the trouble re-
peated after another little level stretch?"
ot course, admitted the beauty. but
what has that to do with this subiect?"
frlme or wonanhood is the highlands"
salc the stylish woman episramma tically
while old age is the low-lying plains"
Now, the stylish woman takes the grad
ual descent route. since IL She makes aav
enort 10 30 so she can be stylish every
ninety-fve should she live so long. and
thus the marks OF age won't be as notice
fain n S1nce. after al. she preserves GER
Inc beautlful woman. on the contrary
taxes the plunging route to those I'M
for awhile. and the observed of ali obserT-
ers, til suddenly some illness or the force
o OF ,i Eears precipltates her into one of the
Y " IA slow ,tNes,-~
marking: al
Nv What ia a pity! 1t was her greatest
or at the next precipice either she grows
aaIpteasantly thin or takes on superfiuous
Hesn Whereat the chorus sing:
Oh how she has changed"
Down the next hill maybe her hair
whose color was the distraction of ali be,
claim: 'e'
50 a w no would have thought It could have
The adora BILE dimples in her cheeks. that
we're were everybody's envy stretch out into
ugly oh bnes at the next declivity."
On this is awfulr' INTERRUPTED the
beauty. why mayn't / go with Won vo,,r
way?" "1 sou your
How 1t 10 Done.
Inc stylish woman smiled Partly be-
cause she was amused at having inyeigled
the beauty into thus frankly confesstng
her good opinion of her own looks. while az
complimentary comments she had made a
moment before on herself the STYLISH Nc
man man; ana partly because she enjoyed the
lioNel situauon OF plain woman being
to by a beautiful woman and i55
a matter regarding personal apnearanca
mnere beauty Is supposed to possess all the
,,,, YOU may go with me my way IL Won
ttSe, she responded, and IL you are as
to do So the moment you fnd yourself be- be-
ginnlnS TO grow passe."
Inc beauty sighed
fes, II fading beauty would abandon
eue plLarte and the picturesque thai were
an Very well for her in her freshnass anS
abop' style In their place. people would
,oo, Miraculous how she preserves her
And even when she go. downr,,,, ola
mi.n wrinkles and gray hair would re-
ana Well, positively. she always was pretty
ana always will be. Even the marks Of
ase aon seem to make her look any the
But the trouble with most fading nre,tv
women is that they are too inciinas -
cns 70 the picturesque garments thar he
Sx hn, tfem IN the freshness of their youth.
Mnen IL at the first sign of age they yyoni5
instead bend all their enersies iowa "a heins,
SIMPLY stylish.aBd thus divert attentionfro-55
loss u MaIhing youth. why their melancholy
,ps "oulun be observed, since a stylish
tnlng is Invariably becoming, while the he.
SsoillnSness OF a purely beautiful decoration
'oh, no. began the beauty. .,h,rr os
i hGiop skirts. bustles and all those monstros-
A. lf anything is fashionable" reneatea
olie stynsh woman with emphasis st Is be-
coming. no matter what its cut or color
we may, or course, before it fairly arrives
90, oh on. hld l. ! won't wear it If it does
But after all. when 1t Is undeniablv with
US, we begin to like IL, for love of the rre
vailing mode, though undoubtedly an &c
quired taste. like that for olives and lorna
toes is very strong and very absorbing
while IL lasts.
Not every one, though. can be stylish
objected the beauty. evidently meditatin-
the adoption OF this age-concealinR artifice
ana consequently desiring every least obiae-
ton to be answered. for style is an t1es
plicable quality which some possess. and
others utterly lack
oh, nonsense" said the stylish woman
with some impatience I'm astonished
that you, too. should accent that ancis,,t
platitude, for style instead OF being the
great mystery that SO many declare IT, con-
siSts merely in doing when in Rome as the
Romans do, and in wearing on any given
occasion whatever the fashion of the mo-
ment signifies as the proper thing for that
particular event, whether 1t be picnic or
a ball
''one mustn't forestall the styles. though.
and don something in Washington that
hasn't yet escaped the confines of Paris
to do that isn't to be stylish, it is only to
be remarkable.
And every place too, in a degree. DOS
sesSes Its own modes, that would look if.- /
appropriate in some sister town. The white
shoes for instance, and thin light dresses ]
that Washington women often wear into
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