Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-07-24

The mar who takes a patent medi
scine advertisement seriously is gener-
ally supposed to be in the first stages
of a mild, but incurable- lunacy.
The average patent medicine fake
scarcely attracts the attention of the
reading public, But a new class of
these humbugs is coming before the
people, and strange to say, is receiv-
ing an enormous patronage. We re-
der to the beauty specialists. Madame
Yale is as familiar to the average
reader as is Lydia E. pinkham.
Madame Rupert is nearly as we'll
known, while there are a score of les
sser specialists in the fields of beauty
culture. There is a reason for all
this popularity. These quacks claim
to be able, like Hebe of the Greeks,
to restore to aged people, especially
those Of the English feminine gender,
the beauty and vigor Of youth. It is
remarkable that 50 many people should
be the vain devotees Of these things.
1t shows, however, that beauty-the
sweetness and freshness of YOUTHS
still the ideal of the average woman
All those beauty specialists claim
to be able to give the female form
that beauty of outline that is the
poets dream; to change the shape Of
the features so that the idealistic is
attained to give the complexion that
ruddy glow that makes maidenhood
80 fascinating; to eradicate the
ravages of time as marked by those
destroyers of beauty-the wrinkles;
to give the silvered hair the gloss and
= color of youth. In a word, they seek
to keep a perpetual youth in a body
of old age. It is the ambition of
the average IN to be as beautiful
as Venus. She does this because, in
spite of the new oma theory to the
contr ry, woman is still the idea
listic object Of the sterner sex. The
average man has passed far beyond the
savage idea that woman is the drudge
and slave Of a man. The ideal
woman has become the actual con.
ception of tho sculptor and painter.
The requirements Of her beauty have
been fixed, and if she hopes to be
numbered with those who are ac-
counted beautiful, she must meet
these requirements. To accomplish
these, natures work must Le changed.
The chin must be changed in shape,
the eyebrows must have the classic
arch. the ears must resemble the
poetic she'll. the form must be develop.
ed, the nose must be changed. All
these things call for the beaut,
specialist, and the beauty remedies.
This is why they flourish. 1t shows
that man is a - hipper of beauty.
1t is true that hen f. is sought,
the nobler qualities of hea: nd mind
have more influence in the average
selection than the beauty of tue
woman-otherwise, there would be
few marriages. In the past, the
idealistic has been expressed in art,
now we seem to make a woman thai
ideal, and she is thus becoming E
piece OF statuary, a great painting
rather than the companion of man
She is seeking to please man b,
gratifying his idea of the beautiful
and in SO dong she is becoming as de
void OF life as. her predecessors
the creations of the s~culptors ant
artists. With this class of womel
on the one hand, and the new woman
mans competitor on the other, i
leaves a small portion of the sex TO-
the genuine companions of man. L
it any wonder the divorce courts ar
full to overlooking and the marital re
latiOn is becoming a burlesuneY