Show TIlE THE PERFECT BEAUTY BEA UTY By Max ORell ORellI ORel 1 PREFER the tire pretty pret woman to the t e beautiful woman and nd I 1 the I r I charming charing Woman noman oman best hest of or all aU aUThe The pretty prett woman remains pretty prett longer than tha the th th beautiful be woman remains ris r beautiful and the the charming haring woman lasts last forever The beautiful woman is often selfish and conceited the pretty w woman man sel seldom seldom sd dom d om ard and the charming charing woman never Do I object to perfect beauty In a woman Do I I L find fault with wih regular features f with wit classical outlines and absolute Attic figure Wel Well no yet there is 1 something cold about perfection pett ton and ad I 1 mown known k the whole charm char of a a woman to be if U not actually produced at any ru rate ate rte r enhanced by a few little defects detect a nose slightly turned up un an aI Austrian upper u lip tp showing the teeth and making the mouth just a n little disdainful d a a suspicion of ot a small smal saltcellar breaking the uniformity I was wa going to tosa toay say sa s ay the monotony of ot a perfectly smooth throat throat The absolutely beautiful woman Is 15 a statue and very ver often ofen a few little detects defects d give her life The beautiful woman may appeal to our artistic sense but seldom to tony any a ny other oter sense In her presence we feel feet benumbed and as a we close to her bar we often ofen o have a sensation akin to that of a a man with no clothes clothe on leaning against a the north pole pole She is haughty haught and seldom cheerful cheerful She has ha no sense of ot humor huor She ever ver e stands sentry at the door of pt her majesty and as a she walks walk stands and ard sits s its she never loses sight of ot her outlines If I she were your wife you OU feel teel you ou would have hae to spend your our life In Inconstant constant c deadly fear lest you should crumple something something and break brak the sym symmetry sy symmetry metry metr of the whole ensemble The sensation would be b very ver much like 1 e tho the one in some of those o puritanical houses where you ou find all al the chairs ch tr placed In ina a arow arow row ow r against the wall wal at perfectly equal distances distance Tou You dare not sit down for fear of causing Immediate disorder and confusion c If I you are arc pressed and you do sit It down you went want w nt to apologize for f or somehow it seem fair on the furniture The beautiful woman is to be admired at a respectful distance distance like Uke the Venus of Milo Mio In the te Louvre who is seen at her best from the beginning of the suite of rooms at the end of ot which she stands in all al her unapproachable majestic beauty I object to perfection in general generl and the beauty of woman makes no exception to my rule I am not happy or contented when I find nothing to be desired I sometimes like to suggest myself my own little improvements to a sight of f nature to tC a work of oC art r 1 l like Uko my m imagination to be at work The beautiful woman is seldom clever cleer and seldom Interesting Like the peacock she should be seen and not heard At school or college she did not stoop over books boks because it i might have spoiled her figure and her hands never stroked her head for fear of ot dis disarranging disarranging arranging her hair and native genius seldom goes goe with wih great beauty Female geniuses are as a rule well wel labeled by a thoughtful woo Who saw that man ran few tew or no risks The perfectly beautiful woman should be avoided as much as perfect geniuses in the tender relations of ot the sexes se Madame de George Sand Saud and George Gere Eliot Elot were manly in feature and gait gaits and very ver plain Rachel was not beautiful It I would be ungallant to mention menton some others other who are still alive alve Beautiful and pretty women are never Jealous of or female geniuses for beautiful l women are the of creation masterpieces creaton and the female geniuses are its is freaks freak On the other hand the most famous female genius might resent being told that she was not beautiful Talleyrand was one day sitting at table between Madame de and the exquisitely beautiful Madame Here I am he remarked sitting between Genius and Beauty Without possessing either retorted Madame de piqued at the remark of the te wily wiy statesman who was a very ver ugly man I MAX MA ORELL ORELL |