Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-13
BEAUTY ANALYZED.
LANGUAGE HELPLESS wHTE IT AIMS TO
DESCRIBE A CHARMING WOMAN.
Feminine Power Due TO Decentralization Like
Women Who Take an Interest in Thsm-Syn-
patty Appreciated.
Washington star.
nv a beautiful womanl"

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| of one OF his acquaintances.
What is beautiful woman asked
the person TO whom be was speaking.
The old bachelor hemmed and hawed,
and finally frankly confessed that ne
was not able 20 define a beautiful wo-
man, although he knew one as soon as
| he saw her. The woman he was speak
ing of as beautiful may be described as
a very fair sample, and, perhaps, the
reader will notice how nat
description of woman
is when it is cleared OF all the
superhuities of poetic growth. In
height she is about Eve feet ten inches.
She weighs about one hundred and
thirty-fvs pounds, which makes her
neither stout nor thin. She carries her
self erect, with She head bent forward
at a slight angle from the body. Her
hands are of medium size, the fingers
being thin and the veins visible under
the skin. Her eyes are dark gray,
changing in certain lights 10 almost
black. Ut is difficult not to grow a
little enthusiastic when describing
those eyes Her hair is black, with a
few hairs of white, and she wears u
loosely knotted at the back Of her head.
Her complexion is pale, but near the
cheek bones there is a slight tint OF REQ.
Her face is oval, but the mouth and
chin are larger than is commonly the
case. The nose is straight. There,
you have one that is pretty generally
admitted TO be beautiful woman. All
of her features and physical character
istics are good, but the eyes are remark
able, and they make her singular among
women. She is thirty-fve years old,
and sixteen years ago appeared In the
world as a beautiful girl, but little
awkward. She is simply an instance OF
what is not at all unusual-that is, q
girl OF some beauty developing into a
woman of rare beauty.
THEY WERE ALL BEAUTIES.
There was q ball given recently in
Washington at which there was not
single girl who was not pretty. 1t was
a small party and the young man OF
the house determined that there should
be such a beauty show as never was seen
before, About fifty girls were asked
and twice as many men, and as the
household knew everybody in the city,
this was picking and choosing carefully.
The hall was q sight TO behold. There
we're blondes and brunettes, and women
who can rank under neither head. There
were little girls and big girls, and girls
OF medium size. There were noses
Grecian, noses Roman and noses snub,
but unless 4 man had some individual
leaning for some individual reason
toward one OF these girls in particular,
il would have puzzled him to say which
was the most beautiful creature there.
One was the most beautiful because OF
her brilliant coloring, but another had
the best profile. A third had eyes that
flashed so brilliantly that they distract
ed your attention, until you were en-
raptured nv the ta.w"r kcir of fourth
beauty.
Yet, while this party Va AZ It's
height, Que OF the men was head TO
sigh 10 another that he only wished
Miss Blank was there, and, he said, re
was willing TO wager something hand
some that il she were there she would
receive more attention than any Of the
beauties in the room. Yet Miss Blank
is not bssutiful-not even pretty, and
is simply ranked as al interesting
looking girl. But there is an indie
Scribable something about her that wins
attention where beauty only attracts it
for 2 few minutes. About the beauty
tne men futter like butterflies, but
when they meet the really fascinating
woman they fly no further until she
bids them 10 DO so.
BEAUTY VERSUS FASCINATION.
There is always, by the way, ten
Gencv to confound fascinating woman
with a beautiful woman. Cleopatra en-
shared so many men that she must have
had extraordinary destinations; but
poetry and prose, written, however, by
men who never saw her in their lives,
have combined TO immortaize her as
beautiful, yet the best researches OF
modern scholars rather tend to show
that she was not an ex-
traordinarily beautiful woman at
all but that her power
depended upon something else beside
her looks. For the matter Of that,
among the famous women OF the world
the women who have welded great
mower and left great names-there have
been few beauties. George Eliot vas
simply and positively ugly, Cues Eliza
beth was no beauty, MADAME De Stael
was plain, Harriet Marteneau had a
heavy, homelY face; Catherine the Great
was not bad-IooGing, but she could
never have ranked as q handsome
woman, and so on tarough the list.
Tho women who were great philau-
thrOpiSts were Usually better looking,
because, perhaps, their good works gave
them a sweet EXPIRE ssion, and the face
of Florence Nightingale and OF Mary
Carpenter are pleasant to look upon.
But even they were not beautiful. How
ever, it is not the philanthropic woman
that attracts many male admirers, but
the woman who is fascinating.
A Young man was talking not long ago
to a girl who is noted for her faScins-
tiols. Finally he said TO her bluntly:
"l1hy is itthat you are so fascinating?"
Am fascinating?" she answered
with a smile.
why, you know you are" he re-
piled.
perhaps, | am so beauuful-that
may be the reason, she said.
"Oh, but you are not beautiful" said
the man. you know you are not, too,
and that your charms depend upon
something else"
This was hardly very gallant, but she
seemed to understand him, and did not
object 70 what be said.
"Weli, now" she said, "do you think
I like you?"
eyes, he said, ~ know you DO"
Don't be too certain" she replied.
but, 20 tell you the truth, | do like
you. and that's the reason why | am
fascinating TO YOU.