Evening journal., 1908-03-02
What Makes Beauty?

New York Evening World.
What makes women beautiful? Is
II figure, or complexion, or hair, or
eyes, or teeth, or grace, or charm Of
manner or what not9
At the Hotel Plaza a number Of So
ciety women gave tableaux vivants for
charity. Mrs John Jacob Astor.
Mrs. Edward r. Thomas, Mrs Bryce
Mrs. William p. Thompson, Miss Elsie
Howland and others whose names
stand at the head Of the soNety col
umns, posed as portrait and statuary
figures. Miss Edith Deacon, whom the
German Emperor's son wanted to
marry, appeared as Carmencita. In
representation Of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Three GraoesN were three of the most
beautiful society women in New York
Charity reaped a large harvest from
the many people who went to see New
York's society beauties. And many Of
the sightseers went away wondering
just what that beauty consisted in.
If the program had appeared with
out the names Of women of WELL known
social distinction and their faces had
not been familiar to the audience
through the many newspaper repro
ductions the expressions OF opinion as
to beauty would have been even more
frank
Any department store could provide
an assortment Of better compilations
and fully as good figures as the Plaza
tableaux. Taking separately the points
of physical beauty the New York shop
girl or factory girl has more abundant
and prettier hair than the so-called
society woman" She has softer
eyes, fewer lines in her face. and
peachier. more velvety complexion.
Sometimes her teeth are not so good
and her hands are not so we'll kept
Training the finger nails with little
curved scissors instead Of clippers and
cutting away the flesh at the nail half
moon instead Of pushing it back de-
tract from the beauty of the hands.
Excessive manicuring, especially II
the finish is bright and not dull, is
bad.
In figure society women" are in
clined to be too stout. girl who
has to stand behind a counter all day
and walk TO and from her work car
ries herself more gracefully than the
woman who spends a good part Of the
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ing in carriage instead Of walking
The great advantage Of the shop girl
and the factory is that she has not
enough money to be very artificial.
The color of her hair did not come
from a bottle, her complexion is not
applied, her figure is not built up. The
mistake she makes is in striving to
initiate Society women" in dress and
manners. For one thing, she had bet
ter wear common sense shoes, which
are easier to walk in and so much
easier to stand in that a great part Of
the WEAKNESS at the close Of a day
behind the counter could be obviated
by wearing different shoes.
This recalls the old question OF
whether women dress more for them
selves or for other women or for men.
The best answer Is, For all three.
Few women dress, first for their
own comfort. A very few women
dress to please some particular man.
The majority wear a certain style Of
hat or shade Of gloves or cut of coat
because other women do.
Women judge other women by their
clothes a great deal more than men do
A man judges woman more by the
way she wears her clothes than by the
clothes which she wears more by the
tone OF voice in which she speaks 10
him than the number OF feathers she
has in her hat. II is well so. because
II the standards Of men were the same
as the standards OF women there
would be more unhappy women than
there are.