River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
The PLAIN CIR
Chances Really Favor Her More Than the
More Beautiful Sister.

Sweet are the uses of adversely. and
sweet are the uses of plainness; though
beauty can win without effort and gain
credit for possessing all the virtues, it's
plainness and want of attraction must
cultivate the mental and moral parts.
The beautiful sister can be as disagree
able and unamiable as possible at
home, knowing, in the world, her
beauty will prevail and carry her
through. She does not need to spoil
her bright eyes reading. for do they
not speak? Yes, they are volumes in
themselves. But tits the homely and
thick-skinned sister that wears the
best. Therefore. my brothers choose
your brides as the Vicar of Wake
field" choose the wedding gown for
its lasting proportion, but when you
want to have her portrait painted like
wise initiate him and endow it with
every quality which you wish her to
possess. IT'S usually the palmer sister
that is most pleasing in manner. The
hard school of personal experience has
taught her that the world exacts
great deal of plain-looking women,
unless they are gracious and enter
tanning they are so easily passed by
the fairer sister. sit is" as Vanity
Fair says, ''the charming face that
creates sympathy in the hearts of
men"
Beauty is of three kinds, mental,
moral and physical. The beauty of
mind, the beauty of soul and the
beauty of face and form. Now if the
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plain-featured woman is transformed
into an elegant creature, with dainty
outlines and curves more seduc-
tive than any amount of mere facial
beauty, unless it consists in fine,
soulful eyes. Here / would say that
it is usually to the plain face to
which the expressive eye belongs, for
the eye is the index of the mind, and
the cultivation that has gone on in the
intellect is as surely seen through that
organ as though in a mirror. There
must be something almost spirituelle
in a nature that brings out the good
points in others, that believes in good
ness, truth and love, and the better
realms where there is NOT hing course.
and where the soul has time to indulge
its most sublime emotions, to think
that the sky looks blue, the trees
green, to be more alive to the joys of
the song-bird. to the loneliness of the
flowers. to the fragrance of the trees,
the balminess of the country. Ills
surprising, with so much in the world
to enjoy how little some get
out of this life, and tits not
those who have the most who
enjoy the most, for those who have
everything have nothing if they lack
the capacity for enjoyment The higher
enjoyment is to feel the pulse thrill as
some beautiful melody is waited to
you, to look on a lovely sunset and
think how sweet is life and the world.
l thank my Creator that live. A being
must have an artistic soul to enjoy
these things, and every nature that has
a responsive feeling is an artistic one.
To see vice, misery and sorrow and
make no effort to alleviate it. to hear
pitiful tale unmoved, to think only of
personal salvation and neglect the very
things that do save, to fail to develop
those faculties with which we are en-
dowed, is to live ones life on a low
plane and have a very unsatisfactory
existence. -Womankind.