The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22

| hills of Latmos was not tinted with
such pleasant dye as the vermilion
that hourished on the silver hue of Ros-
alind's countenance."
VARYING TASTES.
There is the beauty of infancy, the
beauty of youth, the beauty of maturi-
ty, and the beauty of age-the autumn
of the beautiful is beautiful. Nature
has cast beauty in various molds and
formed features for every different
taste. Burke held that IAN appear
ance of delicacy and even of fragllity
is almost essential to beauty" Per
contra, plumpness and beauty have
been regarded as inseparable. "Fat,
fair and forty" was the ideal to the
Egyptians, who fattened their danes
Systematically by making them sit in
bath of chicken broth. With many
it is lip, or eye, or complexion, but
some ''joint and full result inscruta-
ble and bewildering in its illogical
manifestations, that makes q beautiful
woman out of an imaginary quantity.
Thus it does not follow that the wo-
men who engage men to the greatest
violence are necessarily eminent for
they beauty. THIS very inexplicabil-
ity, that beauty does not inspire the
love and capt;vate the affections of
every one, is sign and seal of pro-
found Importance. A fact so unfathom-
able, we may guess by anology with
other facts, must be the result of Ma
lures instinct guiding within US,
speaking for the good of the human
race.
Those who assume beauty to be
merely physical are apt to hastily con-
clude that all else is absent. Moral
lists have always borne special grudge
against pretty faces and insist that the
highest development of the beautiful
in the human face is the moral, the
manifestation of the inner. spiritual
| life:
| 1t is the sainted soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.
Others assert that plainness becomes
beautified and beauty loses ite charm
exactly according to the quality of the
mind, for rarely, if ever, do we meet
combined in one beauty and wit.
Is fair face in no ways connected
with the heart and mind If it be
true, as Virgil declares, "Grattor az
pulchro ven'ens in corpore virtus-ever
virtue is fairer when it appears in q
beautiful person-why not equally
true as to those qualities with which
Shakespeare has so generously paint
ed his ideal females: refinement o
feeling, goodness of heart, nobility oi
soul, dignity, sweetness; tenderness
and cheerfulness?
HARMONY OF THE SPIRIT.
How came those features so delicate
and perfectly formed, unless :hey re
pond to some harmony within!
If the ill-spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to live with it,
Can the contenance be beautifG
when the soul and heart are deformed
Is not the human countenance the re
suit of the prevailing sentiments that
have held possession Of the spirit? l.
Mt tue good itself merged into the
beautiful!
What's female beauty but an air devine,
Through which the mind all gentle graces shine,
Mr.. Herbert Spencer admirably put:
it when he declares, "The saying thai
beauty is but skin-deep is but a skin
deep saying Nor, it may be added
are indications of mental and moral eff
ficiency by any means wanting as re
cognized elements in personal beauty
A good-humored face is in itself al
most parity. A pleasant smile hall
redeems unattractive features. Intel
ligence and hoodness, in fact, are al
most as necessary as health and vigoi
in order to make up the perfect idea
of beautiful human face and figure
There is a pure joy in the beauty o.
the sky, those calm depths that almost
overpower the human spirit: fine is
the dim expanse of sea, with its shift
ing waves glancing and bursting in
the misty light grateful is the yer
dure Of woods and hills and dales-but
a beautiful face, bright and fair as al
angel shape in the moonlight, with 6
voice as clear as the air of June
morning in the mountains, and as
sweet and liquid as the singing of its
birds and the gurgle of its brooks, eX
ceeds the beauty of sky, or sea, or
grove.
INFLUENCE OF LOVE.
Under the influence of that relation
as unfolded between man and woman
which we denominate love, the latter
becomes to the former an ideal, spun
from his teeming fancy, the threads al
delicately and perfectly adjusted, so a:
to produce such a picture as shall pre-
sent TO the mind a shading and outline
conceived to be beautiful. The rea
object is simply the mere frame