Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-27
Tie WOMAN THAT
PLEASES THE HEART
Beauty is Not Her SureSt
Passport.
BY Rev. Madison c. Peters.


tyranny while Plato defined it as "a
privilege of nature" Homer said it
was a generous gift of nature" while
Ovid called it "a favor bestowed by
the gods" Domitan said that nothing
was more grateful" while Aristotle af-
firmed that beauty was better than
all the letters of recommendation in
the world. Theocritus said beauty is
"a serpent covered with flowers, >
while a modern author describes it as
"a bait that as often catches the fisher
as the fish"
Poets and philosophers have almost
invariably ridiculed beauty, but they
were none the less it's slaves.
But beauty is no. the surest pass
port to womanhood; many of the no.
blest specimens Of womanhood the
world has seen were plain in appear
ance
Take the great woman of the nine
teenth century, the golden age of wo-
mans achievements, and we find that
the women who figure in that century
of unparalleled progress were plain
in appearance. Hannah Moore. Caro-
line Herschel, Emma Willard Lucretia
Mot, Mary Lyon. Dorothy L. Dix, Har-
ret Beecher Stowe. Charlotte Bronte
Lucy Stone, Maria Mitchell Catharine
Booth, Frances E Willard Mary A
IivermOre and a host of others who
helped to make the past century an
ever Frightening apocalypse for the
admiration of men and angels, the
were not, by the rules of scientific
criticism, types of beauty, but by com
mon consent the world hailed them as
the noblest specimens of womanhood
The names of these women smell
sweet and blossom in the dust, while
forgotten are the names of the butter
flies whose heaven was an opera box
to whom the ten commandments were
an inconvenience, who ate arsenic tc
improve the complexion, and whose
chief object was to extract compli-
ments from the masculine grasshop-
pers who danced attendance upoG
them and whose compliments were as
hollow as they were insincere.
Beauty has charms whichought to be
used for good purposes. Every woman
Of fine form and beautiful features
should cultivate a beautiful mind and
a good heart
Napoleon said "A beautiful woman
pleases the eye; a good woman pleases
the heart. The one is a jewel; the
other is a treasure" She is not the
beautiful woman, however complete on
the outside who is faulty and insight
Iy within.
The Good Book defines the beautiful /
woman as one who is viruous, and the
Bible uses the word IN the wide sense
of its significance in the original
force, yigor, grit, womanliness. The
worlds demand today is for women
who not only have opinions and a will
but have the moral courage of in
yasion.
Woman in every circle of society
sets up the standard Of morality be-
You'd which few men have The courage
to rise, If so-called "nigh" society
hah run low it is because woman has
set a low standard. The only hope
for the moral advancement of the race
is to keep woman in the front as
moral force. But her influence is not
equal to the worlds pressing need
In the far-spreading scene of selfish
ness and sensuaIism woman occupies
a conspicuous part today. There is
a loud call for a more active relig-
ion, more powerful impulse in be-
half of morality. In many circles the
women of today confessedly do not ex-
ercise the same moral sway over men
that our mothers did over our fathers
American society today needs women
who will regard their moral convic-
tons as solemn resolves to be true to
duty, no matter how many fools may
laugh at them. We need women to-
day who will not run with the crowd
who dare to stand alone. Any dead
fish can swim with the tide. She is
the most beautiful woman who can
gather the good around her for the
blessing of her smiles, and who
strews mems pathway with moral
light.