The herald., 1897-08-15
LOVE MAKING
AS A STUDY.
Facial Expression and Soulful
Voice MOdulatiOn Taught
at S. an Hour.
ANY GIRL CAN BE FASCINATING.
Charms for CallOw Youth with Cash.
Simple Recipes for the
JeuneSSe BlaSe.

The man who is charmed by young
woman's fascinating manner these days
can have no assurance that it is not
all delusion and snare set to entrap
him. 1t is a thought fit to drive man
to the monastery, but there is no evad-
ing the fact that society girls have TAX
en- up the art of love-making as
study. The girls at Newport and Bar
Harbor are at this very moment put
ting into practice the lessons which
they learned last winter, with what
success we shall see at the autumn
harvest of October weddings.
This new study is of necessity divided
into several branches, of which facial
expression and artistic posing are the
most important. A Boston woman con-
ceived the idea-shall we say with
view to lessenng the proportion of un-
married women in her native State?
In the quiet studio in the modern
Athens where is enshrned the goddess
whose fairy wand confers these gifts,
the girls whose fond papas have suffi-
ciently well-filled pocketbooks may
learn a perfect system of controlling the
muscles of the face and producing at
will any emotion desired-or more cor
rectly, it's expression. This is truly
narrowing idea. Think of the Defense
less condition of the susceptible young
man when pretty girls natural fasci-
nations are enhanced by this most OBJ
jectionable and perncious alliance with
art, while even the least attractive
young woman may acquire the danger
Gus charm of brilliant play of express
sion.
Is a guileless youth of soulful nature
(and large bank accounD the destined
victim? Then her figure droops into
an exquisite languor, hands loosely
clasped on the lap, head thrown slight
ly backward with a gentle inclination
to one side, eyes uplifted just trifie.
She is breathing statue of Reflection!
And the guileless youth gazes upon the
| tender grace in every line and curve of
the lissome body, the rapt pensiveness
of the dreamy face with reverent ad-
miration that needs only sufficient ap-
plication of Greek posing to develop into
sentiment more ardent.
But suppose it is man of the world,
a trifle blase, perhaps, who is to be sub
jugated. The clever young creature
who is versed in the upto-date aesthet-
ic physical culture knows entirely too
much to try the "sentimental-refiect
on him! She is artless but not bread
and -buttery," she is lighthearted but
not frivolous, she looks up into his eyes
with a gay coquetry that is distinctly
provocative, but at the slightest hint
of presumption on his part she draws
mantle of chilling reserve about her
slight form while her mobile face ex-
presses reproachful surprise. OF course
he is contrite for having misjudged her
and shows it. She responds to his un-
spoken plea for pardon with a generous
and most alluring sweetness. Forgive
ness and restored confidence speak from
every movement of the plant figure,
every glance of the changeful eyes,
1t may be urged that girls have done
all this ever since the world began.
Most true, but-only the exceptionally
clever girls born with a reasonable
amount of beauty and an unreasonable
amount of brains. The vital point of
the new art is that any girl bright or
dull, pretty or plain, can acquire the
power of fascinating, by means OF stat
uesque poses, exquisite grace or move
ment and flexible facial muscles. Some
can learn the art, or enough for an ef-
| fective beginning, in dozen lessons or
| an hour each Cat five dollars lesson,
be it understood). Others, less gifted
by Nature, spend an entire season with
but scant result, but no one can give
herself with any seriousness of purpose
to the science of charming, for year
without acquiring an allurement vouch-
| safed by Nature to the very few. No
matter how awkward and angular the
debutante may be, a year of "Greek
posturing," the "Delphic dance" and the
Penelope web will convert her into
creature Of grace and beauty who