Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28

Oh woman Is wnen IL Is cleared OF all the
superfiuities of poetic growth. In height she
Is about five feet eight inches. She weighs
about one hundred and thirty-fve pounds,
which makes her neither stout nor thin.
She carries herself erect. with the head
bent forward at slight angle from the
body. Her hands are OF medium size, the
fingers being thin and the veins visible I'M
der the skin. Her eyes are dark gray,
changing in certain lights TO almost black
ct is difficult not to grow a little enthu-
siastic when describing those eyes) Her
hair Is black, with a few hairs of white
and she wears II loosely knotted at the
back of her head.
! Her complexion Is pale. but near the
cheek bones there Is a slight tint of red
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 a beauti-
full woman. All Of her features and physi-
cal characteristics are good. but the eyes
are remarkable and they make her singular
among women. She is thirty years old,
and sixteen years ago appeared in the world
as 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 woman OF rare beauty
| They We're All Beauties.
| There was a ball given recently in Wash
| ington at which there was not a single girl
VINO was not pretty. 1t was q small party
| ana 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 care
| fully. The ball was a sight to behold There
were blondes and brLnettes 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 a
man, had some individual leaning for some
| Individual reason toward one of these girls
In particular. 1t 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. third had eyes that
flashed so brilliantly that they distracted
your attention, until you were enraptured
! by the tawny hair Of a fourth beauty.
Yet. while this party was at its height,
one OF the men was heard to sigh to an
ether that he only wished Miss Blank was
there, ana. ne said, he was willing to wager
something handsome that If she were there
she would receive more attention than any
OF the beauties in the room. Yet Miss Blank
| Is not beautiful-not even pretty. and Is
simply ranked as an interesting -lookin z
! girl. But there IL an Undesirable some
| thing about her that wins attention where
beauty only attracts it for few minutes
| About the beauty the men fiutter like but
| terfiies. but when they meet the really fas-
| cinating woman they fly no further until
she bids them do so.
| Beauty Versus Fascination.
There is always. by the way, a tendency
to confound fascinating woman with a
beautiful woman. Cleopatra ensnared so
many men that she must have had extraor-
binary destinations: but poetry and prose.
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| her In their lives. have combined TO i'm,
| mortalize her as beautiful vet the best re-
| searches Of modern scholars rather tend to
| snow that she was not an extraordinarily
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 power and left
grefe names-there have been few beauties
| George Eliot was simply and positively ugly
Queen Elizabeth was no beauty Madame
| De Stael was plain. Harriet Martaneau had
heavy homely face; Catharine the Great
was not bad-lookins. but she could never
have ranked as a handsome woman, and so
| on through the list
The women who were great philanthro-
pists were usually better looking, because.
sweet expression. and the face of Florence
Nightingale and Of Mary Carpenter are
pleasant to look upon. But even they we're
not beauties. However. it is not the philan-
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| mirers. bur the woman who is fascinating
A young man was talking not long ago
to girl who is noted for her fascinations
Finally he said to her bluntly: .Why is n
that you are so fascirating?'
a smile. WIZ"
Why. you know you are" he replied.
| Perhaps. am SO beautifui-that NAV he
| 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
| This was hardly very gallant, but she
seemed to understand him. and did not OBJ
ject to what he said.
| like you?'
| Yes" he said. II know you do"
Don be too certain, she replied. But
to tell you the truth, l do like you and
| you ~
But do you ike all the other men who
That would be telling everything" she
replied. And she would submit to no more
questions as to the secret of her power
| The Power of Sympathy.
But the cause of her destinations is ap-
parent. She makes men believe that she
likes them and the way she does this is
| simply by liking them. She sympathizes
with them. and does not lump them to-
gether under the generic term men, but
treats individual cases in an individual
way. With one who is an artist she has
only the soul of an artist, with another
! who likes public life, she is a born poll
| tician, with a third who cares only for
| travel, she can make imaginary trips all
| over the world. OF course, she must have
| a many-sided nature to keep up this sort
/ of thing, but so she has many-sided
| nature, and she has cultivated 1t by read
| ing and conversng with intelligent people
There are some men who don't like her
others who positively dislike her, and This
is due to the fact that she can't sympathize
| with frivolous youngsters, who are grown
] UP only in years, or with those duh COM
monplace men whose minds are vacant
and yet who cannot forgive a woman who
passes them by for more Interesting COM
| panions. She is not willing. in fact to
waste the time that she feels is SO precious,
| and that can be used to such advantage
| Nobody on earth can tell a woman how to
i be fascinating, any more than he can tell
4 her how to be pretty, but, If a woman has
her choice in the matter, she had better
! choose fascination than beauty. The two
| do 60 hand in hand frequently but not al
ways by any means, and IL there is a con-
| test between two women for the possession
| Of a man, the woman who Is fascinating
| gets him rather than the woman who is
! beautiful-that Is, II the man IL worth hav-
ing.
| ''Oh she Ii q beauty, isn't she?" said q
man at ball recently. pointing to a girl
who was really startlingly pretty. u don't