The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30

I'll il is like dull gold and I will learn to
laugh, until my cheeks shall dimple like
a baby's face. Can the beautiful business
woman work with such thoughts in her
mind
Mrs. Palmer smiled indulrently upon
me and said. "How can you ask such
questions when you have had the benefit
of our wOman's congress Have YOU not
seen there, hard at work upon their diff
ferent specialties, women whose beauty
would be the talk of two continents if
they were TO give up work and become
society women Yet how contented they
are, even knowing they are beautiful 1t
does not unsettle them to be told that
they are lovely"
A BEAUTIFUL BUSINESS WOMAN.
My mind instantly flew to Jenness-NII-
Ter. When I saw Mrs, Miller a few days
ago, she was standing upon table lectur-
ing to five thousand women. She wore a
dress of navy blue serge, which came
only to the calves of her legs. 1t was
rainy-day costume for dress reformers
and the shoes were big and ugly and her
sailor hat far from Partisan.
Every woman in that hall was talking
about Mrs. Miller's prettiness. isn't
she lovely Hasn't she the sweetest
eyes," did you ever see such pretty
teeth?' I could hear the women all
around me saying under their breath all
through her speech.
So | laid" for Mrs Miller after the
meeting and asked her-I couldn't help it
if she had ever found her good looks to
be a handicap to her business success.
asked her if she had been insulted. times
without number g on account of her
beauty" as 1 had heard a raw
boned lecturer claim the day before that
the beautiful were insulted. l asked her
if she had been frankly told that she
must leave the house because "her fatal
beauty would be the undoing of the hus-
band and father were he to behold her
(the day before l had heard a woman
lecturer claim that beautiful women
speakers were frequently told that they
must not go on with their lecture for fear
of breaking uplfamilies and homes, if the
men were to drop in and see them.)
Of course JeanneSs-Miller laughed. ShA
had to laugh. She could not help it. BUY
1 noticed that she did not blush.
Il never heard anything more ridicu-
lous," she said. II have been lecturing
all over the country for years, travelling
with and without my husband, and have
vet to break up home by my beauty, or
be insulted by the husband of the woman
in whose house I am lecturing. If 1 am
beautiful | am glad of it. 1t makes me
more effective as a speaker and greater
success in my profession of dress reform
err 1 think if you travel the world over,
making inquiries, you will find that
homely women are insulted just as often
and just as quickly as pretty women. 1t
is the action, not the woman. 1 thank
God that l am not fright"
AMELIE RIvEs DEVOTED TO HER OWN
BEAUTY.
Mrs. Amelie Rives- Chanler is devoted
to her own beauty and to beautiful
women in general. She makes her Bar
bera POmfret a great gold thing" and
all her heroines are lovely as the day.
Like Marie Bashkirtseff, Mrs. Chanler
enjoys admiring her own features and
figure in the looking glass, and she goes
even further than other beautiful women,
by declaring that she thanks her God,
daily, for his gift of loveliness of face
and figure. Mrs Chanler is a living refu-
tation of the idea that beautiful women
rest upon the beauty which God has given
them without adding to its mental
charms. She writes, she paints, and
though few people know it, she is an au-
thOrity upon horses and dogs, and rivals
Olive Thorne Miller in her knowledge Of
song birds.
TIf 1 could keep only one gift from
those of wealth, position, success, riches
and beauty which Providence has given
me, l would choose beauty and let the
rest go. Next to love of friends and
health, ! value beauty"
Mrs. ChattieldTaylor, who is claimed
in a current magazine article to be the
handsomest young woman in Illinois, and
Mrs. John JacOb'Astor, who was a Phila-
delphia girl when she married Mr.. Astor
two years ago, are both brainy women.
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor was the champion
of the Duchess of Veragua, as much by
virture of her knowledge of Spanish
literature, Spanish history and Spanish
language, as by her social position, for
Chicago is filled with women Of ultra
high social position, yet Mrs. Chatteld-
Taylor was selected from them all.
YOUNG MRS. AsToR VERY BRAINY.
Young Mrs. Astor. although barely "a,
has been the moving spirit in her hus-
bands literary enterprises, and it was
she who discovered his positive genius in
the line of inventions.
Who shall say that beautiful women
are brainl ess?
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is really very
beautiful woman. But it is hard to make
people believe it, unless they have actu-
ally seen her and spoken with her. Other
wise, they declare it is the presidential
mansion that enhances her charms and
the white house halo that brings out the
beauty of her eyes and the sheen of her
hair.
Yet, we, who have seen Mrs. Cleveland,
know that she would be a professional
beauty were she to place herself on exhi-
bitiOn and invite the world to fall at her
feet Aud-iust between Ourselves-Mrs.
Cleveland knows that she is beautiful,
and she says she is a better woman be
cause of her beauty.
The possession of beauty makes woman
good natured 1t makes her naughty, too,
and more exclusive apt to fall into
than homely women, state
ments to the contrary Notwithstanding
Beautiful women must keep on trying to
retain their loneliness, or the scepter will
fall from their hands. And they know it.
Ergo, it is the beautiful women that are
the most apt to exert all the muscles of
the mind. Not the homely ones
JUST DISCOVERED HER BEAUTY.
Miss Herbert, the daughter of Secre- |
tary Herbert, has just found out that she
is beautiful and she has just begun to be |
a fine woman. I mean that she is joining |
clubs for the study of French and Ger |
man, and she is taking an interest in |
institutions and is raising |
money for them by fairs and bazaars, just |
as the beautiful women of Europe are al |
ways doing. Washington women have |
called her beautiful Miss Herbert" and, |
now, she has got to live up to her beauty. |
Who shall say that pretty Princess !
May, lovely Alexandra of Wales and |
Carmen Sylvia of Roumania are brain |
less! Or that Maria Antoinette was not |