The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-09

AOVAu6nb Oh CusplQOFS, F1Gz 4ALCkSp4O
tie blazes forth as peerless paragon
OF transcendent beauty and accOmp-
llshments. Her costumes all prob
ability made by some backwoods dress
carpenter, with the taste of sawmill
hand-are more gorgeous than impe
rial robes, and the dazzle of her jewels
-rhlnestones and paste-smites all
beholders with paralysis of the eyes
and upheaval of the diaphragm. She
never speaks less than a dozen Ian
guages, any of them more fuently and
| correctly than she does her own, and
the rich, melliduous accent Of the
wash tub and the cook stove, which
fingers on her tongue, has Partisan
witchery all it's own.
Her bearing is regal and her smiles
winning enough to pull up the paving
stones on the side streets. Her paint
ing would turn Raphael green eyed
with impotent envy, and at her sing
ing all the skylarks of heaven hush
twittering and take to the woods.
Compared with her Juno, Hebe and
the Venus de Medici, the queen of
Sheba, Cleopatra, the mother of the
Gracchi, Elizabeth, Mary of Argyle,
De Steal and Dolly Madison would
have nothing left to do but to pull their
blue check aprons up over their heads
and hire themselves out for scrub wo-
men to charity hospital or dairy
maids to flock of billygoats.
And every silly, simpering, giggling,
tow headed, white browed and
freckled-faced, lanky, slab sided, gang
ling gawky daughter of pro tempore
grandee, a or year big panjandrum,
blooms out as the rare and radiant in
carnation of all terrestrial and celestial
loveliness, q queen of the fairies, a
sister Of the angels, with the seraphic
strawberry mark ON her matchless left
arm. Her tallowy complexion is fair
as the petal of an apple blossom or the
inner lining of deep sea shell. Her
hair is the spun floss of everlasting sun
shine. Heavens own enhancing blue
is in her soulful eyes. Her ungainly
figure-looking perhaps like herring
box on two tobacco sticks-is the ex-
quisite perfection of a sculptor's divin-
est dream. Her manners blend the
dignity OF q duchess with the freedom
and affabiiity of bar maid, and her
conversation is q marvellous and en-
chanting mingling of the profundity
of q Dusch university with the
wit of the whole Eliza bethan age,
the poetry of Burns, Byron, Moore,
and ''the sweet singer of Michigan"
all melted into one golden chalice of
liquid melody, and the tender senti-
ment of earth and heaven meeting in
rapt. divine, ecstatifying embrace.
BAIL All this, and columns on col
umns more of such irredeemable idiocy
and trash, such ineffable slush and rot
day after day, the whole winter long,
the whole year round, the whole quad
rennial through, about few hundred
ordinary American politicians and
Bheir wives and daughters-someO of
them really good looking, clever and
charming people, but by far the greater
part of them commonplace to the last
degree in appearance, in manners, in
attainments and in achievements, and
not few of them downright ignoram
uses and blackguards. There are
criminals and men under aliases in the
Senate; there are barkeepers and hood
lums and freaks in the House; the
bench holds judges who should be
playing checkers with their noses on
the gratings Of cell, and secretaries,
even when spelled with big 8, are
only clerks.
AS for the hackneyed phrase, 'beeu
tiful and accomplished" 40 used by
these capitoline dabblers in ink and
vulgar taffy, it means less than moth
ing. accomplished" women are not
as scarce 90 honest and independent
public men, but it iS doubtful whether,
in all the worlds sixteen hundred mil
lions of people to day, o hundred Wo-
men could be found whom any com
petent judge would pronounce 'beau-
tiful." Ihave seen nearly every famous
woman of my day, and have never
seen more than a dozen who were
beautiful. There are many-thank
God very many-who are exceedingly
pretty. gloriously handsome, bewitch
ingly lovely and enchanting women,
but few in any age of the world who
rise to the sublime standard of the
beautiful. 1t is the highest word In
our language descriptive of personal
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