Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-16
POWER OF WOMAN'S BEAUTY
A Pronounced Possessor Of it Talks on This
Yelled Topic.
CHARACTERISTICS OF DIFFERENT NATION S
The English, American and French Ideals
Beauty Common Among the Masses,
Rare in Aristocratic Circles-In-
roads Made by High Living.

Exactly what the term, professional
beauty" means is somewhat difficult to de-
termine. should say 1t means woman
whose beauty has been so remarked by her
contemporaries that her name has become
synonymous with extraordinary physical at
tractiyeness. In England the opinion of the
prince of Wales, publicly expressed, carries, Of
course great weight so far as the English
public's opinion is concerned. Directly it is
said that the prince thinks Lady This or
Mrs That is particularly charming, para
graphs are printed about her in the society
papers, her face is reproduced in their
columns, and before very long the photog-
raphers have to work night and day printing
her photographs to meet the public demand
Because a woman is professional beauty
for one generation 1t does not necessarily
follow that her type would be the admired
of the next generation. Our ideals and
standards change, and even the most expert
connoisseurs differ with each other / am
not at all sure that II the Barbareni Juno
of the Vatican or the Venus de Medici were
| suddenly to appear in an opera box In a
Worth gown she would be raved about as she
now is by artists.
| We hear much of the power Of govern
ments of potentates. presidents, monopolies,
| mlionaires, Krupp guns, but If you will stop
| to consider l think you will remark that the
| greatest power the world has ever known Is
| that of beauty.
ITS INFLUENCE OVER ANCIENTS.
Antony threw away an empire for
| Cleopatra and many of the worlds most
chivarous, patriotic and learned men,
whether in the fields OF battle or In times OF
peace have been swayed, and frequently com
| pletely changed, in their course by woman S
| fascination. In Russia, where the big-brained
men have failed in anarchstic plots, slender
women, by their wiles, have won way.
| All of which proves that the power OF
beauty is pre-eminent.
There are many who worship only the
purely classic features and consider none
| other worthy admiration, while there is an
other and possibly equally large class OF men
| that prefer a retrousse nose, mouth too
large and face too oval to be OF Greek
outline.
think there are as many beautiful women
| today as there were in the times Of Homer,
and If you will walk down Picadilly, the
Champs Elysees or Fifth avenue you will
| see riding in victorias and landaus quite a
| number OF women as beautiful. II not more
So than were reputed TO be the women OF
Rome Florence, Carthage and other Of the
ancient cities.
TYPES THROUGH THE AGES.
1t is really remarkable how the style OF
beauty changes; how one type succeeds an
Otheri now our luedis are shatleIeu lIoW
time to time. The Greeks delighted in
beauty of form, and today the French are
! following in their footsteps, for, with them
a symmetrical figure ranks highest.
woman need not necessarily be OF aristo-
| cratic descent TO be a professional beauty
for some OF the most beautiful women the
| world has seen have come from the ranks oi
the people. Aristocracy does not by any
| means guarantee beauty. In fact, II seems
in many instances 10 deny IT, This is not
10 deny that culture refnes and enlivens the
physical as well as the spiritual being. for II
is a truth beyond denial that the richest
most perfect beauty is found In women
whose lives have been surrounded and easet
by comfort. There are many "loyeiy peasant