Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-23
Preserve
Beauty
No. 1-HoU to Look
Like Your Fauorite
Statue or Picture

the sculptures Of the immortalI.
That argument won. During the
beauty competition the city was in
the same tense. gala spirit as dur.
ing a fiesta.
The Distinguishing attribute of
Italian beauty Is that il is natural.
French beauty walks on crutches.
1t must have aid. 1t is artificial.
The Russians Initiate the French.
They go step farther. They bor-
row the French methods OF beauty
culture and carry them to extremes.
The Italian woman seeks first OF
all to be herself. Whatever she is
that she tries to be with all her
might. She is. we will say, OF the
buxom type, though that is unusual
among the young women Of Rome.
Very we'll. Then she does not
apologize for her plumpness She
does not try to hide it. She is
frankly plump. II she ia slender
she emphasizes the slenderness. If
she Is one Of the hazy. indefinite
kind OF girls, who seem merely a
nebulous background for a pair of
great eyes, she throws those eyes
as much into the foreground as pos
sible and becomes, so TO speak,
Girl OF Eyes.
Whatever the predominant note
OF her personality that she persis-
tently sounds.
l greatly admire America. fell
IN love with 1t last October when
] sailed into its imposing harbor.
] have never ceased to love it.
Probably I shall always care AS
much for it as do to-day. 1t is so
young, so rich in all the frank fasci-
nation of youth.
| see in it only one fault. It's
women try to be alike. They dress
alike, talk alike. ] should infer
that they think alike. In Italy the
women are so very different. They
Try to be simply, solely themselves.
Your Lima Cavalieri. who was Of
my own city, Rome, has worn her
hair in the same way ever since I
have seen her lovely picture, and
that has been all my life, Of twenty
one years. She wore it in that
style because it was becoming II
showed outlines of her beautiful
head. Hers, not those OF her sister.
her aunt or the woman who lived
farther down the street. am wear
ing my hair as have worn it for
ten years, since | was what you
would call little girl in this coun-
try, but in my own a very young
woman. at eleven. The woman OF
tWenty-onc is SO much older than
your American woman of that age.
BY all standards save the calendar
She is thirty.
The Italian woman is, first. her.
self. After that her eyes rest with
longing upon statue or painting
TO which some one-herself or an
other-has noticed that she bears
a resemblance. l, for example,
early discovered that there was in
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victory studied and modelled
myself more and more upon this
wonder Of Samothrace.
Walk along a street in Rome or
stop beside one Of its many bcauti-
ful fountains, you will meet a work
ing girl, a laborer's daughter, whose
noble lines will recall to you
Minerva in the Capitol The
psychology OF that resem blance is
the admiration Of Italians for works
of art. 1t Is as with music. Every
man and woman in Italy loves
music and can sing, because all his
or her life good music has been
within sound OF their cars. The
Roman children are as much ac-
customed to beautiful paintings and
statues as a farmers son is to
apple trees in the orchard. We be-
come like that which we often see.
We form ourselves upon the pat.
tern Of our thoughts. The poorest
woman in Italy has her favorite
Madonna" and, be assured, It Is
not one Of the most beautiful, but
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