The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-13
The Beautiful Woman
BY cHAs. OR ANT MILLER.


seems to have been accepted literally.
For months the poor lady lay fiat on her back the
floor, motoness with her close to her Sides during
several hours every day. This appears to improve
her hgure. During the rest of the day, for the
period of time she high stool giving and rocking
the upper part of her body backward and forward and
from side to side INCREASINGLY By this process she said
to have acquired stauesque throat and sylphs waist
The lady's nose having soaring nature corrected
and made Grecan by the constant application day and
nights for months of spring bandage. One nostrl
originally larger than the other she a small
sponge in it for year.
Her cheeks have been filled out and rounded by in ns
of paraine Her for months compressed against
the sides of her head by springs while heavy weights
attached to the lobes to produce the required elongated
shape, which has been successfully achieved
Having suffered this complicated martyrdom for year.
the lady has become satisfied that she is sufficiently
beautiful
An exaggerated case? Perhaps.
But the commonplace fact remains that thousands of
daily subject themselves to cruel ortures for the
sake of beauty.
1t is worthy purpose, to be sure.
But-after all
! What is beauty?
That there has been and will be anything
in this world more beautiful than beautiful all
men cheerfuly agree, and they always will.
Aristotle, who wrote learnedy many abstruse sub
jects and very delightfully."- this one, confessed his in
ability to master it. THE question, he sad sis that
may have to leave to the blind.'
There is good reason suppose that the learned
womans beauty as do those who What other answer
is there to the ancient query, old cvilization- For
whom does the blind mans wife paint hersefs'
Plato had delightfully."- indefinite idea, too He des-
crbed beauty the charm due to "reminiscences of what
we once behed when we other and better than what
Poetica? Philosophical? Both Deliciously so. But
who shall it Sally Smith is pretter than Jenny
Jones, vice versa?
Man-moden man. at least-always regards beauty as
a personal question.
Burke attempted to define beauty According to him
the proportions which beauty depends are First
be comparatively SMALL second, to be smooth; third to
have variety in the direction of the parts, but, fourth
to have these parts not anguar fifth to be of delicate
frame and sixth to have coors bright and clear gar
ing, but diversified.
Anyway this is something definite. And because it
is definite, probably nine in every ten will declare it
tommyrot 1t fails utterly to describe the adored, hence
beautiful
The Mohammedan idea of beauty sought express
ed in Ell Ktab Feminine beauty this work announces dis
plays four forms of black hair eyebrows, eyelashes teeth
and hands Herewith four forms of pink tongue lips
gums and cheeks Herewith four forms of roundness
head neck forearm and ankles Herewith four forms Of
length back fingers and legs. Finally, four forms
of narrowness: eyebrows fingers, nose and lips.
Excelent!-as picture of the lay figures in hair
dresser window. woman possessing all these attributes
might be very beautiful she might be ugly the old
scratch.
Then what beauty in woman7 Bless YOU that is the
question: 1t always has been the question and always will
be.
Beauty, if defnable at ALL may be defined harmony
Its lies in the power of attraction 1t should not
merely allure; should also detan There is the Venue of
Milo She stands the recognized type of beauty at its best
few minutes in her company agreeable. But nger
and she turns from beauty into a bore, if not into
horror For think of the dscord she created Think Of
the discords she still in the soul of after all
these centuries.
There who soemny declare it is better to have
cobra in the house than beautiful wife, 1t is only their
rude way OF saying that the woman whom men commonly
regard as beautiful they regard otherwise.
Anyway what is a beautiful woman? There are
again 1t is open question And it will remain such.
Let men agree that certain woman is beautiful and
the unite in seeing nothing attractive about her
The neglected woman whom no admires is beautiful