The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
ALL BOW TO BEAUTY.
LILLE LANGTRY on THE POWER
EXERCISED by FAIR WOMEN.
Juno or Venus in an opera BON.
ldenls and Standards Changing
With the GeneratIOns-POsItIO OF
Professional Beauty.

! beAuNN.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Exactly what the term professional
beauty means is somewhat difficult to
determine. 1 should say it means a wo-
man whose beauty has been so remarked
! by her contemporaries that her name has
| become synonymous with extraordinary
physical attractiveness. In England the
opinion Of the Prince OF Wales. publicly
| expressed. carries. OF course. great weight
so far as the English publics opinion is
concerned Directly Il is said that the
prince thinks Lady This or Mrs. That is
particularly charming. paragraphs are
printed about her in the society papers
her face is reproduced in their columns,
and before very long the photographers
have to work night and day printing her
photographs to meet the public demand
Because a woman is a professional
! beauty for one generation. il does not
! necessarily follow that her type would
be the admired for the next generation.
! Our ideals and standards change. and
| even most expert connoisseurs differ
with each other. am, not at all sure
/ that If the Barbareni Juno Of the Watt
can or the Venus de Medici were sud
denly to appear in an opera box in a
Worth gown. she would be raved about
as she is now by artists.
We hear much of the power Of govern
ments. of potentates. presidents. monop-
olies. millionaires. .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.
Antony threw away an empire for Gle
| opatra, and many of the worlds most
chivalrous, patriotic and learned men,
whether in the fields of battle or in times
| of peace. have been swayed, and fire.
quently completely changed. in their
| course by wOman's fascination. In Rus
STA, where the big-brained men have fail
| ed in anarchistic 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 feature. and consider none
| other worthy of admiration. while there
4 is another and possibly equally large class
/ or men that prefer a retrousse nose, a
/ mouth too large and a face too oval TO
| be of Greek outline.
| think there are as many beautiful wo-
/ men to-day as there were in the times
of Homer, and if you will walk down Pic
cadilly the Champs Elysees or Fifth av-
/ enue, you will see riding In Nictorias ana
/ landaus quite a number of women as
| beautiful, IL not more so, than were re-
/ puted to be the women of Rome. Florence.
! Carthage and other of the ancient cities.
! 1t is really remarkable how the style
/ of beauty changes; how one type succeeds
/ another; how our ideals are shattered
/ from time to time. The Greeks delighted
in beauty of form, and to-day the French
\ are following in their footsteps, for with
them, a symmetrical figure ranks high
/ est. - ..... ,,,.. 1900,
A woman need not necessarily be OF
I aristOcratic descent TO be a professional
/ beauty, for some Of the most beautiful
/ Women the world has seen have come
/ from the ranks of the people. Aristocracy
/ does not by any means guarantee beauty.
/ In fact, II seems, in many instances. TO
! deny It, This is not 10 deny that culture
rehnes and enlivens the physical as well
as the spiritual being, for it is a truth be-
| yond denial that the richest, most per-
feet beauty is found in women whose lives
have been surrounded and eased by com
/ fort. There are many 'loYely peasant
maids" for poets to fancy into rhyme
but the artist win find large flaws in their
beauty, for it cannot but happen that
coarse food and hard work, unrelieved
by gentle care and refined SURROUNDINGS
and occupations. will prove hostile 10 vel
vet skins, soft features and dainty hands
and feet
Beauty. however, is destroyed just as
| surely by life of high living The
highest average of beauty is probably
to be found at the golden mean, where
| the highest reaches of intellect imagin-
! alton and true nobility are allied with
women of the middle class. This is doubt
] Ice 10 60 aI.-I.a.
premacy of American beauty.
Yet, withal. it is a fact that, with
| the exception of a few actresses, nearly
all the professional beauties of England
and the continent have been and are
women of noble birth
The English woman of the upper rank
is really too athletic for exceeding beau
ty She rides and walks too much. and
her tennis exercise is too great to allow
her to obtain very rich appearance; for
womanly beauty and strength can rare
ly be combined. Pure beauty is ealmn,
tender and gentle. Psyche could not have
been so fair had she equaled Atalanta
in speed. diana never dethroned the God
dess Venus, the latter not having been a
huntress.
The English woman ,s, as rule, too
large and lank of limb; her features too
strong and heavy. and her color too high
She is principally attractive as a picture
b
prosperous classes a warmer grace OF
person is more frequent.
Yet there are many high-born danes
whose brows are crowned with a trophy
more dazzling than even their coronets
and who have won that climax, the title
of professional beauty" Although
much coveted position to attain, it is not
always a pleasant or desirable one to
possess. A professional beauty is the cy-
nosure of all eyes. Her every action is
commented on and criticized. every lit
tie act of her life is Immediately given
wide publicity in the newspapers, and
she cannot go out" receive or do any
thing without being commented upon and
approved or disapproved by the world at
large. She becomes public character,
a notorious one, in fact. She is looked
upon to a certain degree to set the fash
ion, and, of course, she invariably lives
far beyond her means. She is extremely
unpopular, as a rule among women, for
her beauty excites the envy and sharpens
the slanderous tongues of her less gifted
sisters. She is usually a good woman,
but, nevertheless her reputation may suf-
fer She must accept every invitation and
ruin her health at a long series Of balls,
receptions and dinners. BY the end of a
social season she is weary. body and soul,
Of the honor that has been thrust upon