The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-16
WHAT IS BEAUTY

WHAT IS BEAUTY.
 Along with perpetual motion lever power and several other unsolv able problems. the question of what ii beauty will never be agreed upon. 4 writer says:
 Beauty Is a question for the blind tc decide" remarked Aristotle when press ed for a definition Later on he wrote scripe Is not extant, and even If 1t were would we ever be made to agree or the subject of beauty?
 Emerson. Burke ana Gautier Wrote phil osophical volumes and essays on this topic-none of them agreeing. how
 Ali the poets, the artists and the mu; sicians of the world have tried to tel what beauty is, and only on one single gss gosss essenee of Seauty the power to attract. As to the secre' of this power all the world again dis
 The brilliant Gautier says: "A woman who is beautiful is brainy enough; that is. she has the quality of being beaati, ful. I prefer q pretty mouth @ to 2 n me single we'll formed ankle"
 The Moharnmedans have a great ethi' gal work called nE or KtaD wsieh shvel ds ness as follows: -Four things must be of black coior-hair. eyes, eyelashes and eyebrows. Four things must be white ssns. ss 'ssss as ssnas ss Tsap aaS the sS round@Sead. neck, arm and ankle. Four ,hinss must be sIenderThngers; Sns; aems asnas however, are four proofs of ignorance which are betrayed by the eyes. nostrfls lips and fingers; So you see the Frencf ticaiiy agree in raising the body of wo' man higher than her mind.
 Edmund Burke was a very partieu. aiPe eh& nsst IS not a' be toe ss gentle and docile. She must have many varied spiritual qualities: She must be ws oS os or bower She must have a clear. wholesome com- plexion." .:-
 70 ON THE BUSINESS WOMAN. qs A man writing on the business wo- man is quoted as saying:
 Did you ever hear of a defauiting wo- man cashier? Now did you? Of course you didn't: There never was a woman living or dead, who was entrusted with large sums of money along business lines that didn't fulill her trust to the very letter. Women are more honest sns sn sp on Gn H%d upt Pst wand so a prophecy right here in this connec- tion. that t won't be ten years before women will be s,mRilSyed ip pDpsltlonss as cashiers and tellers-where the money is handled. And they'll beat us ever have to be brought back from Canada.
 DEFINES RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
 At tht last session of the Legislature in New York State. the following amendment to the domestic relations law was passed:
 A married woman shall have a cause of action in her sole and separate right for all wages. salary, profits, compen- sation or other remuneration for which sho may render work. labor or services, or which may be derived from any trade, business or occupation carried on by her. and her husband shall have no right (or) of action therefor unless she or he with her knowledge (or) and con- sent has otherwise expressly agreed with the person obligated to pay such other remuneration. In any action or proceeding in which a married woman or her husband shall seek to recover wages, salary. profits, compensation or other remuneration for which such married woman has rendered work. la bor, or services. or which was derived carried on by her or in which the loss of such wages. salary. pronts, compen- sation or other remuneratton shall be an item of damage claimed by mar ried woman or her husband, the pre- sumption of law in all such cases shall be that such married woman is alone entitled thereto. unless the contrary expressly appears.
 MUST THE ONION GOT
 Society in Portsmouth. Ohio, Is said to be making war on the onion. They are waging so relentless a war as to take from 1t what little reputation 1t did have. It fs said that
 During a lecture given under the aus pices of the Alliance of Women's Clubs the speaker said that the onion had no appealing only to the sense of smell. and that 1t was useless to the stomach. as we'll as nuisance.
 Immediately there started all sorts of arguments about the onion, many talk ing the part of the crushed and down. trodden vegetable.
 These aTguments g ,grsw soohssts so heated that reled and in one instance an engage nent was broken of because the pro- spectiVe bridegroom carried in his said. of demonstrating that 1t had
 In the effort to settle the dispute the Alianee Of s1on Su1S and sSonted eeso 1n lutions.
 Perhaps they will at least leave the onion in a pickle
 HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.
 The art of keeping young. according to Professor Goldschneider of Berlin, consists in keeping sound the blood vessels, for we are only as old as the heart and the arteries. Long life Is best insured by early attention to the heart. though care begun in old age will often accomplish much great danger lies in abnormal demands on the organ. and little injuries accumu- late. so that serious harm must come from the abuse of alcohol and tobacco, Of eating too much. of too great mus cular effort, or even of mental over work. Moderation in all things Is re- quired. Exercise should not be violent nor too little in amount. elasticity of the blood vessels should be promoted by frequent exposure of the skin to air and water. and work. food, and sleep Ahnuld be thouGhtfnllY adjusted. Old