The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
WHAT is BEAUTY?
HAS BEEN A THING OF JOY AND A POWER
THROUGH ALL AGES.

THROUGH ALL AGES.
In the Metropolitan Magazine"
Hon. Boyd Winchester, ex-Minister to
Switzerland, presents the following
"brief for the pretty face and graceful
form and the evidence of ages in be
half of beauty's hypnotic power;'
Beauty is threefold, and the order OF
precedence claimed is moral, intellect
ual and physical beauty. it is far from
being of light or trivial import, but
has been the torment and delight of
the world ever since it began.
Socrates called beauty short-lived
tyranny; Theophrastus, a silent cheat;
Senaca, aeeting joy; Shakespeare,
vain and doubtful good; Moliere,
frail possession; Bacon, summer fruit,
easy to corrupt and that cannot last;
Byron, fatal gift; Theocritus, a de-
lightful prejudice; Plato, privilege
of nature; Domtian said that nothing
was more grateful Aristotle affirmed
that it was better than all the letters
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mer calls it glorious gift OF Nature;
Ovid, favor bestowed by the gods;
and Keats says beauty is truth and
truth is beauty. No one can deny
that it is the most august, the most
honored, the most priced, and Natures
greatest force in woman. Not that it
is quality for which, if absent, moth
ing can make up; but, when present,
it wins good will at first sight, making
its way directly to the soil; it renders
service sweet and untiring tasks, 9th
erwise irksome, seems favors; and
with bloodless conquest finds wei
come sovereignty as we'll in the rudest
as in the most cultivated minds. AS
the glory of man is in his strength, so
the glory of woman is in her beauty.
None but a blind man would ask
why anyone should be delighted with
beauty. Was so exquisite an organ as
the eye-spalkling with intelligence,
flashing with indignation, melting with
grief: trembling with pity, twinkling
with humor Or languishing with love-
given for nothing? Where the deli
cately chiseled lips, like a speaking
rose, and a mouth "the gate with ru-
bies and pearls richly dight," given
tor nothing?
NATURES MOST GLORIOUS WORK.
Is it surprising that the graceful
head, the cupola to the most glorious
of Natures works; the mantling color
in cheeks, like apples which the sun
has ruddied the rounded limbs; the
bosom, white as the hawthorn buds,
where "Cupid trembling lies, nor sleeps
for kissing of his bed'-all should ap-
peal to the soul and awake in the
heart its very finest sensibilities!
Neither the term "animaw nor ''sen-
sual' is to be applied to the heart
which turns from ill-adjusted and in
harmonious lineaments of body to
beauty like that of Juliet, which could
make the grave itself a "feasting pre-
sence bright with light or to face
like that Of Helen of Troy,
that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers OF Iliun
| A face fairer than the evening air,
Clad in the beauty of thousand stars.
Emerson long ago apprehended the
truth when he said; Beauty reaches
its perfection in human form and
reaches its height in women. All men
are its lovers. Wherever it goes it
creates joy and hilarity." It's not,
indeed, to be denied but that there is
something irresistible in beautiful
face and form; the most severe will
not pretend that they do not feel an
immediate prepossession in favor OF
the handsome, Thacheray, in his "Peg
of Limarady," remarks on the benefit
which beautiful face, without trouble
to itself, confers upon him who looks
at it, how it may brighten q tired
travellers thoughts and raise by its
presence the modest comforts dispens-
ed to the level ofluxuries.
The physical beauty of woman
makes a part of her nature; it has a
place in the economy Of the soul, in
the laws of progressive existence, and
to make happy is its true empire.
Pope says that "a beautiful woman is
a paradise to the eye" The recogni-
tion of this truth is illustrated in the
story of Elizabeth Dunning, the Ouch
ess of Hamilton, of whom Walpole
writes that when she was presen' ed at
court the noble crowd clambcred on
the tables and chairs to took at her
and the accounts of Pauline de Wig
uiere, that beautiful and accomplished
maiden of the fifteenth century, who
so fired the enthusiasm of her people
with her enchanting face and form that
the civil authorities compelled her by
edict to appear publicly twice week
on balcony to allay the excitement
And what a sight to make an old
man young to gaze upon such para
gon of beauty as is ascribed to Rosa
lind: Upon her checks there seemed
battle between the Graces who should
bestow most favor to make her excel
lent. The blush that gloried Luna
| when she kissed the shepherd on the