The Washington herald., 1910-09-25

puts It. Great composers have embodied
in musical form their impressions of the
| beauty OF sound, as the twittering OF
birds, the rustling OF leaves, the murmur-
ing OF pines. the booming OF waters.
| Mendelssohn, IN his Songs Without
Words" strives 10 reproduce nature ef-
, fects in music; and more recently, our
American MacDowell in his Tone Poems"
| expresses the same idea in different
form. Great portrait painters have pre-
| served for us distinctive types OF beauti-
full men and women In succeeding epochs:
while single marble statue like Story 5
''violet-crowned" Sappho. seems 10 touch
heights unsurpassed in beauty's realm.
Public buildings. beautiful In design and
marvellous in execution, tend TO develop
the aesthetic taste Where. for instance.
could be found nobler beauty OF archi-
lecture set in the midst of a lovely land
| scape than may be daily seen by thou
sands OF passersby on our own Capitol
Hill? To westward. beyond green terraces
and thronged Avenue, towers the Wash
| ington Monument: 10 the east, the won
derful Library Of Congress: TO the north.
the new Senate Office Building and Union
Station; and far to southwark. across
many roof tops. the Potomac waters
gleam-all blending into one harmonious
picture of beauty in nature and In art.
After all. is not harmony the keynote
10 true beauty? In answering the ques-
ton. What does beauty mean?" TO me
individually. l would say Beauty means
! harmony be IL Of the scenes or of the
finer spirit and such beauty may De found
in the tiny bungalow as we'll as in the
richly appointed mansion; in the city
street, or-best OF all-upon the mountain
! top, where the Great Artist alone paints
the pictures. VIRGINIA c. CAsTLEMAN.
Real beauty is the true soul. reflected
not only in the face and form. but in
deeds as we'll II is the keynote to all
the tone and harmony OF human nature.
! II is as the striking of a perfect chord.
eloquent in every detail, and glorious in
its vibration. Real beauty shines from
Within starlike vigilance. lighting the
darkest places and Frightening the sad
N'1A AANNFs @lH lliS STATS span hlc Blli TIE
heavens, so does the light of a good
spirit shine forth. breathing its glorious
message from within. Exterior lovliness
shows the BETTING binding OF a noble
poem. Beauty, in all Its sense. is glori-
Gus In its brilliancy. Like a precious
stone in the darkness OF the rock, the
CLEANS shine forth. their brightness be-
Tnkanfnrr nd
CLARINNE HUNTER.
What does beauty consist Of, and how
can we define it? There is beauty in the
innocence and wonderful dependency of
a young baby; there is beauty in the
happy. care-free child: there is beauty
In the rounded, graceful perfection of
young manhood and young womanhood:
and there is beauty in silvery-crownsd
old age Beauty Is found alike in the
tiny bluebell, unpretentious and almost
invisible in the grass. and in the tall.
stately pine rearing its magnificent head
skyward. There is beauty in the care
fully tended hands of one of fortune
/ favored daughters, and there is beauty
In the rough knotted hands Of a mother,
who for years has labored and wrought
for her children. Then, how can we ex-
press in words what beauty is? Does II
not depend, 10 a great degree, on the
condition of mind and heart OF the ad-
mirer? Can We not see beauty and low
illness IN things at one time. which al
another fail to appeal to US in the same
way?
1t may be that unreIenting patience
and cheerful self-sacrifce shining through
the countenance of one altogether plain.
will tighten 1t up as no beauty of fea-
lures could do. 1t may be that some
superb act Of unselhshness and love will
beauty a life otherwise dull and monot-
OnOus, and unless we look for the beauty
that lies underneath. and is not the most
obvious have we not lost half the sig
nifcence of the word?
In a patch of sunshine. in a shadow
cool,
In briming ocean. In a shallow pool,
In tiny flower, in a songbirds trill,
Find we not some beauty that the heart
must thrill?
In an act OF kindness, in a word of
cheer,
In touch of sympathy, always ready
near
In deed unselflsh. in a look of love,
Find we not some beauty, like to that
aboYeF MARION G. BARKER.
Mental brightness makes facial iIlumi-
nations. Is your face vulgar and bias
phemous? Battle 1t in the sunlight Of
pure thinking. Give the massage of
holy aspirations. The cosmetics of faith
and love and prayer. And the obscene
lineaments viii soften and sweeten like
your thoughts Is your face skeptIcal
and irreverent? Be stu and know thar
God is. Let the divinest moods come
upon you. Yield to the entreaties of in
finite perfection and a higher life will
set its stamp upon lips, cheek, and eve.
Is your face unfeeling, malicious? Cues
ton your soul in the presence OF beauty
What right have I 10 hate any MANI
Vengeance Is mine-I will reray. Is your
face coarse. sensuaIlzed? Call on the
mighty and majesty OF your god-like
spirit TO assert themselves, and to
demonstrate in you the divine pedigree
Of man. Draw near 10 Him through the
touch of whose garment virtue will pass
TO cast out the lustful devils that possess
you, Henceforward the body NAV realize
more and more the souls fellow-heir-
ship 10 divine Inheritance of beauty. ("
Heneeforward the soul muy exa!t its