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Show GREATEST OF ALL POWERS Wealth, Ancestry, Genius, and Knowl. edge All Pale Before the Wondrous Won-drous Magic of Beauty. The magic of beauty is more patent than was that of Simon Magus or of Paracelsus. Beauty Is a different thing from orrnment, which may be the disguise dis-guise of ugliness. It is a gift for which no artificial ttractlons can ever be a substitute. It Is a power greater than birth, wealth, knowledge or genius. People may be proud of their birth, hnt after all we are not our ancestors. The rich man may transmit his wealth 1o his offspring, but it may be all wasted in a single generation. Knowledge Knowl-edge may be a satisfaction to its possessor, pos-sessor, but has it not been said that "the more a man guineth of knowledge the more he gaineth of sorrow?" Gen lus, although It wins admiration, may Tie an obstacle rather than an aid t success in life. Burns and Poe and Baudelaire had genius, but It did not bring them any worldly advantage. Beauty, on rhe contrary, Is a key -which opens all doors'. It shines on the ! world like the sun, and its influence is universal. In Emerson's words, it is ""Its own excuse for being." To be 1enullful is to be worshiped, Idolized, caressed, and adored. The plain, good people may protest against the Injustice Injus-tice of a world which prefers beauty to virtue. But the fact remains. Rochester Post Express. |