El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-10
THE ART OF LOVEMAKING
1T is TAUGHT AT THE COST OF So
PER HOUR.
All the Arts of Becoming Fascinated
With Facial Expression and Mtdu-
lated Voice is Taught.

The man who is charmed by young
woman's fascinating manner these days
can have no assurance that it is not all
a delusion and snare set to eptrap
him. II is thong ut fit to drive man
to the monastery, but there is no evad-
ing the fact that society girls have
taken up the art of love making as
study. The girls at Newport and Bar
Haroor are at this very moment put
ting into practice the lessons which
they learned last winter, with what
succe SIS we shall see at the autumn
harvest of October weddings.
This new study is ofnect ssity divided
into several Breaches, of which facial
expression and artistic posing are the
most important. A Boston woman
conceived the idea-shall we say with
a view to lessening the proportion Of
unmarried women in her native state.
In the quiet studio in the modern
Athens where is enshrine d the gOdde SIS
whose fairy wand confers these gifts,
the girls whose fond papas have suf-
ficiently well-filled poke tbcoks may
learn perfect system Of controlling
the muscles of the face and producing
at will any emotion desired-or more
correctly, it's expression. This is truly
a narrowing idea. Think of the defen-
seless conoltion of the susceptible
young man when pretty girls natural
destinations are enhanced by this most
Objectionable and pernicious alliance
with art, while even the least attrac-
tive youpg woman may acquire the
dangerous charm of brilliant play of
expression.
Is guileless youth of soulful nature
land large bar k account) the destined
victim? Then her figure drOops into
an exquisite lang uor, hands loosely
clasped on the lap, cad thrown slight
iy TO one side, eyes upiifted just trifle.
She is the breathing statue of Retlec-
ton. And the guileless youth gazes
upon the tender gra in every line and
curve of the lissome body, the rapt
pensiveness of the dreamy face, with a
reverent admiration that needs only
sufficient application of Greek posing
to develop into sentiment more ar
dent.
But suppose it is h man of the world,
trifie blase, perhaps, who is to be sub
iugated. The clever young creature
who is versed in the up-to-date esthetic
physical culture knows entirely too
much to try the ''sentimen refiec-
tive on him. She is artless but not
''bread and tuttery," she is light-heart-
ed but not frivolous, she looks up into
his eyes with a gay coquetry that Is
distinctly prov )cative, but at the
slightest hint of presumption on his
part she draws mantle of chilling re-
serve about her light form while her
mobile face expresses reproachful sur
prise. Of course he is contrite for
having misjudged her and shows it..
She responds TO his unspoken plea for
pardon with generous and most al
Turing sweetness. Forgive ness and re-
stored 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, 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
statuesque poses, exquisite grace Of
movement and flexible facial muscles.
Some can learn the art, or enough for
an effective beginning, in dozen les
sons of an hour each lat So a lesson,
let it be understood). Others less gifted
by nature, spend an entire season. with
but scant result, but no one can give
herself with any seriousness of pur-
pose to the science of charming for a
year without acquiring an allurement
vouchsafed by nature to the very few.
No matter how awkward and angular
the debutante NAV be, "a year of Greek
posturing," the "Delphic dance" and
| the penelope web" will convert her
into q creature OF grace and beauty