The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-04
TO Be BEAUTIFUL.
HOW WOMEN NEED TO LIVE ON
HIGH SPIRITUAL PLANES.

E34GE3 Ok M OAH Z GE4EN GSO
Mrs. Ames Reads a Paper, and Miss
Banks Waves Age and Disease Aside.
Miss Maude Banks enlivened the lit
erary meeting of the Professional WO
mans League yesterday afternoon,
says the New York Sun. Miss Banks
will be remembered as the young wo-
man whose radical opinions on one of
the supposed prerogatives of her sex,
which she advanced from the public
platform, were so remarkable as to
give staid grandmothers and matrons
conniption fits. When the members
of the league became aware of Miss
Banks presence they began to look as
if they expected somsthing. They
were not disappointed.
The paper of the afternoon, read by
Mrs. Eleanor KIRK Ames, was on the
subject Perpetual Youth" Mrs
Ames looked the personifcation of her
text, with her pink cheeks, delicate
complexion, and bright eyes. Her soft
white hair was rolled in pufs off her
forehead.
by perpetual youth" said she, ''is
meant abiding vitality, and the ex-
preston of that healthful life in the
form and face of the individual. Some
point to the Garden of Eden as the spot
where a misconception of mans prIvi
lege took place, and he lost dominion
over himself. We know that this
Adamic hypothesis has obtained during
all ages, and it is only within a very
short time that man has commenced to
think along the God lines of health,
youth, and enduring life" Mrs. Ames
declared that man must work out his
own salvation, and this was to be &C
complished by following the advice Of
st. Paul, BE ye transformed by the
renewing of your minds" which she
declared to be the most philosophical
and scientific advice ever voiced. She
went on to say that every external
manifestation had a mental cause, and
consequently the conditions of sickness
and old age proceeded also from the
mind.
Mrs. Ames hoped that her audience
would not critically contrast the
preacher and her doctrine, and declared
that if at the age Of twenty five she had
recognized the fact that her antipathy
to sickness and horror of death were
divine protests against those things,
instead of very bad and wicken tenden-
cies to be overcome by prayer and the
cultivation OF aphilosophic resignation,
she would not appear with white hair.
Then she spoke of beauty. I'VE
have a right to beauty, "she said, land
it is only because of our ignorance that
we grow old and wrinkled, feeble and
i'll, and, alasl resigned. We were made
in Gods image and have lived on
| Adams sufferance. We have been like
pendulums all these ages, swinging be:
tween God and Adam. One day we
were nearer God, end the next daYwe
had swung over to Adam AMI taken
upon ourselves ali the error and misery
that pertains to this physical concep
ton of life. Some may think the preser
walton of beauty of small consequence
The woman who by the acquisition Of
a fine mental poise has kept her face
young has accomplished it by cultivat
ing a oneness with the divine. She has
accomplished it by the understanding
of scientific principles, which means q
comprehension of the law of God Some
one is asking now, What if she is moi
beautiful tostart with7' Ladies, beauty
is not so much a matter of feature as
of freshness, vitality and expression,
The woman with a clear eye and
bright, sunny ~countenance, whosmilee
into your face and grasps your hand
with love and power, is a beautiful
woman. She stands there mistress o.
herself and ready to help the world
Beauty is one of the highest attributes
Of universal law, and every woman