The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29

man nature, a desire implanted in every
" Cman's heart to wish for admiration and
love; and as soon as the girl-child is old
enough 10 feel this desire, She is con-
scious that the most important means to
the end is to be personally attractive. Her
very earliest observations and intuitions
teach her this fact: that Beauty's progress
through life is a sort of rose bordered
one; royal progress: for TO Beauty the
weird, big and little, high and low, pays
homage. AS the girl rpens into the
We man every experience in life teaches
her that her share of its successes and
pie assures Will be in proportion to her own
ability to win favor, to please, and that
, the first and most potent influence is
physical beauty"
And again: Beauty reaches its perfec-
tiCr in the human form. and it's utmost
eHaltation in woman. The very quality,
however. which charms most is and must
rCn ain forever indefinable, for il is a SUBJ
tie, intangible something that appeals to
the Imagination. and which analysis can
never grasp. This it is that makes soul
less, doli-like beauty as evanescent in its
effect as the sea foam Ethical and spir-
itral power alone can stamp enduring
impressions, for they stimulate the imag-
.nS ton, whereas the mere qualification o.
the senses soon pals
| Speaking of the influence of climatic
ccEditions on beauty. Miss Fletcher pays
.
and says. There are regious in the tenn
IpeIate Middle Coast and in the foothills
OF the Sierras which are more favorable
! to the enjoyment of absolute physica
health than any other part of the world
1t has been well named the country fol-
vcnen and roses, for nowhere are they
developed in greater beauty or perfection
The women are tall of stature graceful
and 1.-THE. by virtue of the elixir inhaled
with every breath in the open. II
a nearly perfect climate produces sucf
results, it follows that the temporal,
zCr es are more favora bic to health ant
consequently beauty. than extremes o.
Lcat and cold. Beauty, however. basks il
warmth and genial skies and can better
enGure a high temperature than a low
one:" which latter statement should fur
nish crumb of comfort to the womer
OF Hawaii.
The different types Of beauty the au
thor deals of in chapter devoted to th'
evolution of taste, and she describes many
famous beauties of the past and present
Miss Fletcher believes that we are neare
the perfection of beauty in these latte
days than ever before, but she says: "W'
are still in a transitory stage: and tast
advances slowly, interrupted by depress
ing periods of retrogression, while tn
perfect creature is being evolved.
FL shion has united with common sens
and given such vogue to the worship o
Hygeia that more has been accomplished
i'm scarce two decades than any nal
century has wrought before. This cult o
Hygeia has gone hand in hand wit
wCman's higher mental development, an
nay be rightly considered one of the frs
fruits of the latter: for with the dieci
pinned mind came broader sympathies an
a wider outlook, which necessarily rouse
a keen desire for the strength that alon
made possible the fulfllment of the ambl
,tions excited by the extended horizon.
These haphazard excerpts will give
better idea of Miss Fletcher's philosoph
than could any extended criticism. He
book is well worth reading, interesting I
men no less than women. instruction sh
mngles adroitIy with clever observation
or life and woman's sphere of usefuines
lin the world. and all in all the book
one of the soundest and most practice
and most useful that has appeared
, raEy 4 year.
The volume is well gotten up, we
: printed with numerous illustrations an
! handsomely bound. (Brentano's. Ne
, York. publishers.) w. W. L.