The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-04
The SOCIAL WORLD hWOMAN'S DOMAIN

into seolusion and wr::e her message of thought to the world.
 It is much easier for a plain woman of brains to learn to be beautiful-learn to fill the eye"-- than for pretty brainless woman to learn to think something and intellgently express the thought. So perhaps after all the best stock in trade to start life on. is brains real brains. Not what the p,es..ssor so often mistakes for it--peculiarity.
 If her brain is well rounded and well balanced, a woman will recognize the importance of doing others the justice of giving them, In herself. something pleasant to look upon. while she de- lights them with her intellectually.
 She will also find that the best way to gain credit for the brain she pos sesses is to understand others; to see from another point of view. She will do her best to appeal to the love of the beautiful, which is inherent in every human being.
 M. Provost declares that women like Mrs. Kruger and Mrs. Gladstone are the ones who really dominate the world and says that in future beauty will be relegated to its proper position as an unimportart part of a woman's power"
 What bosh!
 When beauty becomes all unimport- ant element in woman's makeup. then I-.1 IL. l- to be joys forever" All that is beau- tiful in earth. air and on the seas will be for naught; for no eye will know that they are.
 The brainiest woman I ever knew became so through cultivation of the intellectual qualities. and neglect of the physical being. an awkward. shuf- fling. ill-sitting, i'll lwa!king piece of humanity. but through the influence of friends she believed, and recognized the power of. pleasing the eye. culti- vated the beauty that was in her. A change came about. and her influence was doubled-more than doubled.
 One of the most beautiful women ever knew was hopelessly inane. Nc reasoning powers. no sympathy. no opinions. Some one who cared tried to cultivate the brain and heart. She O'N-s' became a parrot, an eclto. Sometimes the parrot echoed one side of ques. tion. and again the echo parroted the other side. And then it was funny Rut she did her best. The grey mat ter and the heart throhS were lacking A physician whose business in life is to aid women Tn their cultivation oi | beauty says in relation to the subject Tt would be interesting to know | what Prof. Burt c. Wilder of Cornell who makes a study of brains. has tc say on the subject of the constant wal | there Is between feminine beauty anc brains. The Professor will say. proba' | bly, that education aud brain develop ment can only result ir added beauty | hut the Professor will look at the mat l ter with the eyes of the soul If ht | were confronted with n collection oi photographs of the notably clever wo' men of the century he would find rev beauties among them from physica standpoint.
 "It Is idle to assert that the reign O | beauty is over. It never possessed lh' value to women or the potent influ renee that it does today and It IS rec ognized now as necessity. rake tn' thousands of establishments the coun try over that are devoted to the beau | t1GVlnK or WOIIicI NOuht 'N - the physicians that have grown enor mousIy wealthy in their practice O eradicating defects and building up th' muscles. the skin, and the form. I'm aRine the armies of hair specialists rnanicures and masseurs that exist to | day in comparison with the coholloI of things twenty years ago!
 .In those days a woman born plaif was recognized as an unattractive gir and was kept in the background
 Beauty was then locked on altogether as a gift of nature and the pretty glr
 began eaRy to garner all the atten
 tions, the beaux, the bouquets and th' | candies. She was the belle Of the Wln' ter and the summer and had plenty oi suitors to pick from when she wished to marry. But beauty making is 2 science nowadays and even the mos ordinary looking girl can be brought
 to q state of attractiveness in figure carriage. color and even feature, tha' takes her at once out of the ugly gir class. If beauty were losing it's infiu- ence in the world the change would
 be marked py a falling off in these line! | of work, whereas there Is perfect furore for means and aids to beauty.
 "The pretty woman rarely endeavor: | to cultivate brains, as she very early learns that she has no need for then in her all-conquerng advance. ThC
 clever woman invariably cultivatet
 beauty. No more potent instance O
 this can be found than In the persoi
 of Mime. Bernhardt, wno has won farn'
 and distinction the world over by he
 great talents yet had employed {
 physician whose sole duty 1t Is to pre-
 serve the skin and the youthful ap
 pearance of the great tragedienne wht deyotes far more time than is imagined | to the work of keeping herself attract
 i've in app2arancs.
 The beauty whose charms are or the decline or who is fighting the grea enemy to beauty, obesity, Is a perfecI
 martyr to her good looks. l know o
 one woman whose life for the past ter years has been practically a torture
 She has been on a strict diet and obllg' | ed tO exercise constantly to keep dowr the increasing avoirdupois. The body massage which she undergoes twice ( day is not at all a pleasant ordeal
 Massage given to take of flesh Is ex. tremely hard to stand; 1t Is practically a violent kneading. Recently this he- roic woman discovered that her wrists and ankles were getting too heavy and the fatal second chin was asserting it. self. She has met every new attack on hear beauty with immediate de. fence and the least treatment adopted Is that of tightly wound bandages upor the wrists, the ankles and about tho throat. In these she tries to sleep eacf