The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-29
CHARMS GROW
WOMEN or TODAY LOVELIER
THAN. THOSE. OF PAST
The Secret Is Claimed to Be in Their
Better Care of the Advantages Ma
ture Has Given Reconsideration
and Refinement Do Their Part.

A number of men and women were
discussing pretty women the other
evening. They were not gossiping. for.
once, about anybody in particular, but
were taking general inventory of the
charms of women they knew and
drawing comparison between their
prevalence now and few years back.
The general opinion was that pretty
women were more numerous today
than at any previous time.
When the discussion reached the
reasons for more pretty women. all
sorts of ideas were advanced, such as
higher education privileges in ath-
letics" and modern progression. one
woman who had not contributed much
to the logical part of the conversation
said:
Education and civilization and
progress have all conduced to the re-
finement of women. a process that re-
fleets in hygienic care of herself or
course this conduceS to her general
physical beauty. But the real secret
of womans general increase in love-
Illness of face is her realization that
she must take care of her countenance.
She now understands that she must
renovate and take pains to preserve
her complexion, exposed to the wealth
er, as it is, and to the wear Of mental
and physical eXertion and WEAKNESS"
Then everybody present acquiesced
in belief that beauty as an art" ap-
/ piled practically and assiduously to
the countenance, has a great deal to
do with the modern increase of pretty
women.
Not long ago a Partisan. who is ia
nous for her beauty, was visiting in
New York. She was very enthusiastic
over the American women's buoyant
and delicate loneliness During a dis
cussion of the modern pretty woman,
this Partisan said
Il think that it is just as much
Woman's duty to be charming as it is
for her to make buildings and cakes
or make speeches. Isn't she doing her
share toward making the world more
beautiful and enjoyable?"
And why should not madame and
mademoiselle. too, do all she can to
make herself charming? Shakespeare
says: "All the world loves a lover
but l say "all the world loves a pretty
woman" and everybody knows that a
woman's heart yearns for love. So,
she has this poetic sentiment in all
her efforts to be beautiful.
Even the school girl is interested in
the progress of her charms. She
studies herself in the glass and con-
( templates possibilities of a rounded
throat, of a darker tint to her hair, of
an added grace of carriage, and she
dreams away the hours and pines for
the glories of eighteen and young
Womanhood. f..
What discoveries she makes as the
days go by! What appointments,
and what ingenious inventions to con-
ceal defects.
"She becomes an artist, and the old
er she grows the more time does she
spend ia her little beauty studio She
loves this study of beauty making like
any true artist. and her teacher. the
long. beveled mirror, criticises and
praises and condoles with her. and the
joy of it all is as the joy of Raphael
or VelaSquez
However, a part of modern wom-
ans beauty is due to her more artistic
style in gowning. She adapts the
seams and designs to her figure-but
the colors and tints and all accessories
may enhance the beauty Of her face"