The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-27
A FRENCHMAN,s IDEAL

4 good story. translated from the
French, is going the rounds of the Eng
lish press, but it may not have reached
you vet. 1t is this: Baudelaire re-
marked to friend: Il have just seen
an adorable woman. She has the most
beautiful eyebrows in the world
which she draws with the point of a
crayon; the most beautiful eyes-pro-
duced by cosmetic-laden lashes; the
most perfect mouth--fashioned out of
carmine, and, in addition, not hair
that she can call her own"
The friend answered: "She must be
a monster"
NO" said Baudelaire, "she is great
artist" / do not tell this story to
encourage girls to use cosmetics, but
I tell it to encourage my listeners, who
happen to be Aunt Maria, Nanny and
the girl from next door, to use every
thing that is right to make them look
more beautiful Men should be hand
some in the sense of being well made,
well knit together and strong. Women
should be beautiful, not necessarily
through having perfect features, but
with white skins, with soft, expressive
eyes, with tender hands, with beauti-
full hair, beautiful in its gloss, in its
quantity, in it's color and in it's arrange
ment, and then they should move
around in the quiet way so essential
in a woman and speak in the soft, low
voice that a woman must cultivate be-
fore she can even be pretty. A woman
who talks through her nose, who
speaks loudly,who uses bad grammar is
not beautiful woman. A woman who
trots, woman who gallops, a woman
who strides is not only not beautiful
woman, but she makes one wonder
whether she is a woman at all. 1t
is as easy to learn to walk well as it
is to speak well, to laugh well and to
be happy.
Being happy is a necessity if one
wishes to be beautiful, and being happy
really means being hopeful Tt means
forgetting the sorrow of to-day and
looking forward to the happiness of to-
morrow. 1t means forgetting the wOr-
ries of life and thinking of its joys.
1t is so easy to be happy if one will
only make up ones mind 10 it, Find
pleasure in everything, and if you can
laugh merrily at everything that comes
into your life, and laugh properly, you
will be pretty even if you are not
beautiful, for your mouth will shape
ltSelT Well.
BY the bye, speaking of the mouth,
unless you have beautiful teeth learn
to hold your lips close together. Get
over the had habit of permitting your
gums to be seen. But you ought to
have beautiful teeth. The dentist of
to-day is magician, and tooth-brushes
are cheap, and if you have nothing
better, soap is good dentrifice Pearls
in the shape of lovely teeth should be
in the mouth of every woman, while
diamonds in the shape of interesting
words should fall from her lips when
ever she opens them. Women are al
ways generous; that is, the normal
woman. 1t is the abnormal woman
who is a miser. And when a woman
grows greedy, or too fond of money,
she grows ugly. She draws her lips too
closely together, her jawbone seems to
fall down and become square rather
than curved, her eyes, in their desire |
to see everything, become small, and
with her loss of generosity comes the |
loss OF good looks. No woman need be !
a spendthrift, but every woman can be |
generous and share her good gifts with |
those who need them.
Tt becomes a woman to be kindly and /
to think of those who in this world |
have less than she. 1t makes one love |
a woman to think that she remembers |
what you would like to possess and |