The Washington times., 1920-08-18

ess Curzon. whose mother WAS an
American; Lady John Lavery. born In
Amerisa, and Millieent. Duchess OF
Sutherland.
Authorities have disagreed as to
the essential points of beauty and it's
meaning. Some OF the ancient phil
osophers believed beauty and utility
were closely related; that beauty 10
the pleasure connected with sight
and hearing.
WHAT BEAUTY Is.
Our old standby, the dictionary.
says
Beauty. that quality of objects.
whether In nature. art or man. that
appeals to. and grAtifies, the assthe-
tic feelings and forms the basis OF
aesthetic judEments-the most es-
sential characteristic OF this quality
physical or spiritual. resulting from
the harmonious combination OF d.
verse elements In unity"
From another source we learn that
"the conditions or elements OF beauty"
may be considered a. embracing:
1-Imagination or sensuous express
sion OF unity in variety.
2. The presence and activity of ra-
tional or spiritual personality.
| "EASY TO LOOK At"
So far, summing up what We have
read, we may say that beauty 10 pret-
ty much . matter Of being easy to
look at"
Yet there are five kinds Of beauty,
SO the large. heavy books tell US
that of the sublime. Of tho proper
tional, or the graceful, Of the wild or
luxurious, and Of the pretty or hand
some.
1t reads almost like those dainty
volumes that the book clerks believe
should be q part OF evsryone's vaca-
tion kit. The Wild Bids. How to
Know Them at q Glance" and others
OF the same type.
Beauty, lest we disress, may also
be style. "ruling style" (how hously
a pretty woman looks In a last years
gownO, fashion, or-mark well!-a
feature or element that makes thing
beautiful.
Beauty, again, Is given as q syno-
nym for a very attractive woman"
But opinion as to what constitutes an
attractive woman Is largely a matter
of geography. In parts Of the world
very fat women annex all the beaux.
in many African suburban places nose
rings and painted lin weird design)
faces mean devastating charm. But
such devices leave us cold. IL indeed
anything can in these dog days.
NO LUCK TO POSsEssoR.
Extreme good looks are popularity
| supposed to bring no particular luck
to the fair possessor. Even SO sharp
ar observer as the old poet, Pope, say
ing:
Happy and happy still she might
have proved were she less beautiful
or less beloved"
Beauty as the means of preserving
youth surpasses by far DR.. Serge
Voronoff's monkey gland stunt. ac-
cording to one Of our best-known
writer's, the late William Shake
speare, who averred:
Beauty doth varnish age as new
born, and gives the crutch the cradles
| infancy"
Yet the Avon Bard knew a few
| practical things about beauty II he
was a poet.
Hints on Touching Up Eyebrows"
are to be found in his works. BLACK
| brows become some women best, so
they be in a semicircle or half
moon made with a pen.' he sang.
Our present-day mode Of backless
and sleeveless gowns, skirts barely
covering knees, both dimpled and
knobby, could not have escaped the
eye of this observer Of beauty.
He says
These black masks proclaim an
enshield beauty ten times louder than
beauty could display"
AS a beauty hint this ie excellent.
one modest neckine therefore being
twice as charming as the complete
topography of ones back.
Milton believed:
! Beauty stands In the admiration
only Of weak minds
Led captive; cease to admire. and all
her plumes
Fall fiat and shrink into a trivial
toy,
At every sudden sighting quite
abashed."
IN BEHOLDER's EYE.
| Although 1t is generally conceded
that beauty is in the eye of the be-
holder. we see from the foregoing
that IL acknowledgment of beauty be
not in the beholder's eye, beauty
cannot remain beautiful, As she needs
constant confirming Of her comelin-
ness, which must come from without
"'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty
call" says Pope. but the Joint force
and full result Of ALL"
We all know women radiantly
beautiful. so we believe. Sometimes
a photograph surprises by registering
such a one as of ordinary appearance.
| But the camera does not record glow
! ing color of face, eyes or personality,
at least not often. Yet In the hesh
such a woman Is beautiful.
MODERN BEAUTY DUE TO ART.
Much modern beauty that passes In
the highways has been secured, all
will admit. by art and artifice. Yet
art, in the sense Of fine art, has the
giving Of pleasure as Its object,
achieving thereby the same end as
beauty. And art in broad sense
means any object produced by mans
brain and hand, that which H. not pri-
marily a product OF nature, which 10
artificial. something in which skill has
been added to the natural founda-
tion.
Then should a plain girl who, by
artifice and skill has made herself .
delight to the eye, be classed as a
beauty. or must a real beauty be a
beauty to her hairdresser and her
burglar both?
America Is noted for her lovely
women. We fear that the British
beauty judge who Is now visiting us
will be one Of the worlds busiest men
| while making his choice to match five