The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-04

ton. NO woman Is ugly: all women are
beautiful. No man could design a face
which should please him at all times
and under all circumstances. Age has
nothing TO do with the subject. Many
women In their latest years surpass all
the achievements OF their life In win
ming admiration and attracting friends.
To know everything is the perfection
Of knowledge; to be able to accomplish
everything is the aim OF the gods: to
make most harmonious is the effort OF
the musician: to polish and to shape the
diamond-stone is to make most perfect
ly beautiful the most dazzling OF all
gems.
But 1t is not SO with beauty. 1t is
makes beauty; not a tendency OF all
the features of all women to approach
in type face divine, the ultimate and
unimprovabls perfection OF female
loneliness. Not only must the face and
form OF woman change. but mans
tastes and standards become common
and universal before one ideal shall
command the extreme OF admiration on
the part OF mankind and relegate all
other women to subordinate parts, like
those of the ladies Of honor around the
queen or of the myriads of stars mod
Sfl al ING ha avyx~ h.
heavens to the brilliant and matchless
Venus.
Until that time. the Hottentot Venus
will be preferred, with her broad lips.
squat nose. swarthy skin and ponder
Gus hips. by the men OF her race, who
will despise and be repealed by the pale
face with the thin lips. the spider waist
and the narrow foot. II any color OF
skin were the ideal, the Egyptians and
a black Madonna. If any type of
women were the cyHosure Of all eyes,
the American girl would be sought by
japanese and Chinese. by Kafflrs and
by Malays, and the lands Of the dark
skinned woman would become desolate
of men
Not only do races have their own
idea OF beauty; every man has his own.
Men may agree that any woman is bet
ter looking than others. but no two men
agree upon every point. and the d.
vergence will become very marked and
bread II the woman show preference
for one over the other. Women GER
tainly DO not agree in their notions of
beauty Men and women often agree
that woman IS nice, gOod-natured
smart. shrewd. active. even kind Of
pretty, but beautifui-never,
We are not even constant in our own
notions OF beauty. \ very few years
suffice TO change the model. The Venus
de Milo has not commanded the atten-
woman must give place TO the soft.
dangerous beauty; the tall. 1.-THE and
sinuous figure. with waxen skin and
naxen hair. 10 the plump. petite form
and dark laughing eyes. The sybll
reigns while and hands over her
scepter 70 the penslve brow and droop-
ing lash.
/ AIoies dimples. beauty-spots. Grecian
simplicity of the hair. high coiTures.
+ curls, hangs ana nuTs come and 90.
and each seems for the time the acme
+ - good taste. ~ no recent period has
the aspiration 81 Sextus Propertlus been
realized ~ the a1mirer ot the gentler
{ sex.
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to-; stir.
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In al theie OWE. :setr mS:chless lowell
ness
Noses have had very powerful sway
ever uau: both the aQuUiae and the less
de1onst-at.se feature for whose name
the French language has had 10 b
drawn upon. has each had It's Say. The
charm - the beaa,v-srot IS ia:errni..
tent. aa1 that Z The mole ~ less so
bus the dinple has retained It's powers