Evening star., 1925-06-08
Finds Loneliness Is Hard
To Define as Times
Are Changing.
POSING IRRITATING
Runtanian Ruler Holds
One Type Al,Udys
COnUinceS.


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and the North American NetoS-
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frank and intimate trdy her phi
losphy of life, IoUe and 1Cork. The
series marks the first time that q
reiOnino member of royalty has
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nature for newspaper.
BY QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA
WHAT is BEAUTY IN WOMEN
Beauty Tremendous word-al-
most as big as love.
Divine gift of the gods, which, in
fairy tales. the fairy godmother lays
in the babes cradle as a special gift:
Thou shalt have beauty"
The names of beautiful women
have remained in history, even after
centuries, with such glamour that II
rings like a wonderful tune in our
ears. We want to hear 1t often. We
want to know all about them. We
can never delve deeply enough into
their lives Poets never tire singin &
of them. Historians ever again want
to conjure them up before US. Paint
ers love to ponder their features,
their expressions. to make them live
again.
Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Phryne,
Dido, Venus. Dante's Beatrice, Mary
Stuart. Lucretia Borgia. Lady Ham
ilton and more modern names, of
artists especially-Mary Anderson,
Mrs. Langtry. your Lillian Russell.
your Mary Garden, Ethel Barrymore,
Mary Pickford-all faces that rise
before US when we say the word
beauty"
And when we pronounce these
names, the thought comes instructive
ly. was 1t a blessing or curse to be
so exceedingly lovely? Beauty and
virtue do not always go together
may even say seldom go together.
The great beauty is also born great
lure, a great temptation. All eyes
turn toward her. hands stretch out as
though to touch, to grasp, to hold
her.
Beauty opens every door, nearly
every heart. The beautiful queen,
the beautiful actress or singer, the
beautiful pleader. the beautiful gypsy
girl, the beautiful waif. Directly one
stands arrested. one wants to hear
more, to see her better, to know all
about her. Queen or waif, II is quite
irnmaterial: 1t is the beauty that cap
lures the attention. fires imagina tion,
aWakeS deSire-beauty.
Can Beauty Be Classed?
Each sees in beauty a vision of
graceful limbs. exquisite features
glorious eyes. magnificent hair-red,
black, brown or golden; one sees
lovely lips sweetly smiling or proud
ly full of diSdain. one sees perfect
noses-aquiline, Grecian, snub or even
sometimes turned up.
Can one class beauty? One often
speaks of classic beauty fatal
beauty, angelic beauty. the dark
dear to every legend. she whose locks
are like a river Of light.
Like all poets and writer's I, too,
love to let my pen run loose when on
the subject of beauty. When begin a
story I can make my heroine as beau
tiful as 1t pleases me, and have at that
moment a feeling Of creation, a feeling
of power-and / WELD 1t with inde-
scribable joy.
But to come back to my subject:
Can one class beauty? In what ex-
actly does it reside? Is it necessarily
perfection of feature? Can it only
ing, expression anything to do with
1t? Can 1t, to a certain degree, be
achieved?
Somehow there seem several an
swers to each one of these questions.
There is certainly a beauty that is
undeniable, that imposes itself with
out discussion-the beauty no one can
deny. the woman who is beautiful
from the crown of her head to the
soles of her feet, who has beautiful
features and coloring. perfect body,
perfect bearing. The Venus woman,
in fact.
But she is so rare that I feel like
standing in the Louvre. the British
Museum. the Pitt Palace, the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art or the Cor
coran Gallery In Washington, and
turning to more possible types which
we need not class amongst the seven
wonders of the world, and which ap-
pear on our horizon but once in a
blue moon.