The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-22

which materials are quite the reverse
of costly and calling it by pretty So
briquet, sells the same at twenty-five
shillings q bottle! He is making a for
tune out of women's stupidity, is this
good doctor" and who shall blame
him? Fools exist merely that the wise
may use them. One has only to read
the ladies' papers, especially the adj
refreshments therein, to grasp a faint
notion Of what is being done to spur
on the beauty craze. Yet beauty re-
mains as rare and remote as ever, and
often when we see some of the ladies
whose exquisite lOveliness'' has been
praised for years in nearly every news
paper on this, or the other side Of the
Atlantic, we fall back dismayed, with
a. sense of the deepest ppointment
have been so deceived?
Taken in the majority, the women
OF Great Britain are supposed to hold
the palm of beauty against all other
women of the nations of the world.
and if the word beauty be changed
to prettiness, the supposition is no
doubt correct. Tt is somewhat unfor-
tunate, however, that either through
the advice of their dressmakers or
their own crroneous conceptions of
Form, they should appear to resent the
soft outlines and gracious curves OF
nature, for either by the over-excess
OF their outdoor sports, or the undue
compression OF corsets, they are grad
ually doing away with their originally
intended shapes and becoming as fat
chested as jockeys under training. No
fat-chested woman is pretty. No wor
man with large hands, large feet, and
the coarse muscular throat and jaw
developed by constant bicyCle-rfdings
can be called fascinating. The bony
and resolute lady whose line Of figure
run straight down without a curve
anywhere from head to heel, may pos
sibly be a good athlete, but her looks
are by no means to her advantage
Mems hearts are not enthralled or cap
tured by Something appearing to be
neither man nor woman. And there
are a great many of these Something's
about just now. / am ignorant as to
whether American women go in for
manniSh sports as frequently and ar
IDENTIFY as their British sisters. but I
notice that they have daintier hands
and feet, and less pronounced mus
Gle At the same time American Wo-
men on an average, are not so pretty
as British women on the same average.
The American complexion is unfOrtu-
nate. Often radiant and delicate in
earliest youth. it fades with maturity
like brilliant flower scOrched by TOO
hot a sun, and once departed returns
no more. The clear complexion OF
/ British women is their best feature
The natural rose and white skin of an
English, Irish or Scottish g1rl,-eSpe-
cially girl born and bred in the cOun~
try, is wonderfully fresh and lovely
and lasting. and often accompanies her
/ flgnI through ner lie TO OLD age 4 nat
/ is of course. if she leaves it alone,
and is satisfied to merely keep It cleans
without any "adornment' from the
/ beauty doctor. And, though steadily
Withholding thE divine word "beautS
from the great portion OF the beau
/ ties at the Court of King Edward
+ VII. it is unquestionably the fact that
/ the prettiest women in the world are
the British. Americans are likely 10
/ contest this. They wilt as indeed in
/ true chivalry they must declare that
/ their own beauties are best. But one
can only speak from personal expert
! ence, and am bound to say that I
/ have never seen a pretty American wO-
man pretty enough to beat 8 pretty
/ English woman. This. with every pos
sible admission made for the hard
working society paragraDhist COM
/ PEELED to write of numerous @beauu-
/ full Ladies So-and-SO, and charming
/ Mrs CashbOxes. who. when one comes
/ to look at them are neither "beautiful
nor fcharming'' at all. And British
/ feminine prettfness would be infinitely
associated with a little extra additional
touch of vivaeity and intelligence.
When it is put in the shade. (as fire.
quently happens) by the sparkling ale
Iiurements of the Viennese coquette, the
graceful SAVIOR faire of the French
mondaines or the enticing charm OF
lustrous-e eyed sirens from southern
Italy. it is merely because Of its lack
Of wit.
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