Feminine Beauty

"If F the desire for beauty was not a dominating femi- nine instinct, women should be moved by duty to make themselves as attractive and beautiful as possible. Attention, adoration and love is to woman what water, air and sunshine is to the vine. Every woman possesses some charm, some trait, some indi­vidual something in which she is superior and which can be cultivated and made fascinating.

To be attractive is of much more importance than to be beautiful, women of rare personal beauty are in­clined to rest their claim for preferment too much upon mere appearance; so conspicuous has this become that it is the general opinion that beautiful women are not gifted, but the true explanation is they do not work. While the woman without personal beauty feels that her accomplishments are her passport to that which the heart most covets, and as she unfolds and ascends higher and higher in the scale of mentality she is less and less liable to get married, not that she is less quali­fied or desirous of becoming a wife and mother, but because men for a thousand years have been trained to consider women mentally weak and physically helpless, and the more she progresses the more she deviates from this ancient ideal of his; but a new era is appearing, thousands of thinking men are seeking women with accomplishments who can serve other purposes except sex and ornamentation.

Women who have dared to put one feeble finger upon the steering wheel of public affairs, who can do things, are being respected, loved and sought by men who are making history and carving out the destiny of the future.

The higher woman ascends in the scale of intellect­uality the more beautiful she becomes in character, and while personal beauty decreases, character beauty in­creases with experience and age.

While it is the duty of every woman to make her­self as attractive personally as possible, yet to be use­ful, to select some one thing and master it, to take a few steps upward in the plan of evolution, is vastly more important.

If a woman were voted the most beautiful in her city or county, the most it would bring her would be a form of homage and adoration from the lighter intel­lects who are attracted only by what they can see.

This is very sweet and dear to every woman's heart, but it has hindered instead of helped the world's most beautiful women in attaining that which they most desire when life's shadow begins to fall toward the East.

The following is an excerpt from a lecture delivered by Eugene Christian before the Ladies' Democratic Club of New York:

"It is not only woman's desire, but her duty to make herself as beautiful as possible. The beauty of woman immortalized the marble of Rome and the canvas of Florence. It always has, and always will, sway the destiny of men. Its magnetic and magic power has en­throned and dethroned rulers and changed the map of nations.

"Women, if you would be beautiful you must be heal­thy. The pale, frail girl or woman may excite sympathy and superficial adoration, but the thing that counts— the thing that sends the blood like molten rubies flying through the veins of men is the glow and go, the laugh, the glance and dance, the bubbling vitality, the radiating magnetism of health. These things make all women beautiful. Beauty is the 'sun by day and the pillar of fire by night' that moves health's warm stream upward in the thermometer of fellowship, affection and love, while the cold touch of disease on the beautiful but pallid face and form heads it for 33 above. Why? Because we are human. A pity? Yes, but the facts remain.

"Health is impossible without some knowledge of how to select, combine and proportion the material that makes the blood, bone and brain—that builds the body beautiful."

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