Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-11
BEAUTY THE GIFT OF COD"
SHOWS ITSELF IN FACE
AND SPIRIT, WRITER SAYS
1,rntrtce Fairfax Declares That ply.
steal IInndicaps May lie over
como by Use OF Other t:rucrs.
ny BEATRICE FAIRFAX.


What is beauty, saith my sufferiags
thcn?" asked the poet Marowc nearly
500 years ago.
That question has been asked by
the world began.
Histories ascribe to Aristotle. as well
as TO Diosenes. the saying that per-
sonal beauty is better than IA letter
of introduction II is fairly sure that
Aristotle called 1t The gift of Cod"
we know ih;t' beauty was the foun-
dat"n on which the civilization Of
Greece was built.
l.onIfellow says that beauty seen is
never lost, aud we All have quoted
Pope's "Beauty draws us with Il single
hair"
Sometimes wonder If the world
is ashamed Of its love OF beauty and
spends half Of it's time making up OK
cuscs for the weak ness il wants TO
conquer. yet can't avoid.
OF course, some OF the old Puritans
thought beauty was synonymous with
shame and disgrace, as a study OF their
costumes and customs reveals. And
SO 1T is-Bomctimcs.
Chcapncss Never Pretty.
Beauty that is founded on Earish-
ness tawdrincss, immodcsty or vulgar
ity isn't beauty AT all. Nothing can
h: truly beautiful which doesn't sug-
2"st the spiritual. What is cheap and
common is never beautiful
\ costume that cNageera'cs the hu-
man form tends to caricaturc. and 50
is likely TO be ugly instead OF beau
tiful
4 face holding nothing OF sweetness
or kindness may b" wonderful in is
II isn't beautiful. Hay. YOU ever
watched age creeping over a face once
called beautiful? Harsh lines, ugly
wrinkles. assures and seams appear.
where one" there was glory of line.
The beauty becomes Il 'hag' But age
comes upon another face kindly sweet
Eent!cness, the mellowing ri time
Spljcns harsh features to an expression
th;ti reflects "A fine character and his
wrinkled old face is lovely. radiant. In
astoniShmcnt you say 20 yoursclf:
Tn 80 fond of Aunt Susy that !
actually don't gee her any more. I've
Iuhde up an Aunt Susy for myself. and
lvc certainly r"touchcd her bit.
Why, in spite OF the nose ] know is
crooked and the mouth hats much 90
large and the haIr that's thin I'm be-
ginning to think she's lovely 10 look
at Something's tins matter with me.
all right"
Th"rc isn't a thing the matter with
you when You sec Aunt Susy's sweet,
gentle, kindly expression and call it
beautiful There would be something:
The matter with you II you couldn't
aec past the features which aren't ar
usucally perfect TO the soul which is
radiant.
IT mas always seemed to me tina; the
ro.t Keats came nearer TO defining
beauty ,han Any one else rye ever
read OF known. He said in two beau
tifGi--th"y are. now, aren't me? :. -
ines from ms va. on "A 'Fttlab Urn
"Bcauty is truth. truth beauty--that
is ALI
Yc know on earth or need - know"
The saving Grnre.
Now the actual truth ABOUT a person
or :, th!nS may be very different from
its appearance. ANA that's SAVING
pfac. for ali Of Us. Just AS Aunt Susy
looks" beautiful. AS seen through the
eyes " love which unIcrStnn ;tnd ..p-
pr.ciate her sweetness and hneness, so
som" Of US may be beaut .iul II there S
I'm inner radiince about Us 10 light
the outer shell
In tine world OF our senses color.
line. perfume, de.caey and hindred
qua titics make Tor beauty. Ovcrdonc,
they defeat themselves. If suitability
aud proportion are forgotten, beauty
.lics
know good looking woman of the
fuli-b bloom. almost owSy type, who
ni!gnt. II she toned herself down by
wearing soft Erays and lavcndcrs lie
almost hcaUt ful. But shc affects coral
;tud scarlet and gold, ANA mingles them
with lavish hand so that she looks like
cross between Ncapol.tan peasant
AND sunday supplement- comic.
krpw n fine. Chivalrous man who
Jets hIulSci ny OF st silly tanGcnts
about tribes iiei sacrifice himself to
stand 10y friend in an emergency. but
ne Won't permit any one 10 yet half