Show r ITS BEASONB BEAUTY CRAZE AND I 1 I I JUSTIFICATION L I1 The beauty craze Is I on any tho writers oa Boclnl topics but if there has ever been fo tlmo when tlic beauty craze wns not on tho fact is not recorded by the hlatorlans of eoclnl liCe The beauty crazo has al tvays been on and will bo as long as I men ppprecialo beauty for Its own sake l and Cornea desire to be thought bsautlful l She wfco is truly beautiful or truly good t lmtli In either way won the battle said J rm old Rngc but his Idea will llml as i t v hearty Indorsement today as when he i wrote It There has never been a time f when women 111 not tlralro to be beautiful beauti-ful or what Is nearly tho same I thing r to be thought so thoro has never been an hue when the ladles were not willing to wake any = reasonable or even unreasonable unreason-able sacrifice to attain or preserve their I beauty There have however been periods when tho world seems to go beauty mad and Judging from the Indications we arc now In the midst of Just such a period Every journnl or magazine published for lhcla olca J abounds In recipes prescriptions and dvlre how beauty may be gained or what Is much more to the point retained by Its possessor Every lotion advertised I for the complexion every powder pigment I pig-ment and paste every preparation to rfrengthfii the hair to renew Il or prevent U from falling every dentifrice soup and wash every I article of adornment Is but Kn adjunct to beauty to enhance Its charm or Increase Its effectiveness The woman who pays a months salary for a L hat does 50 for the purpose of setting off to the best advantage whatever charms of countenance coun-tenance she may possess She who adorns her cars with diamonds views their effect with satisfaction for she thinks she looks butter with than without them she who wears a cluster ring or a sunburst docs so for the effect Elegant clothing oven when the outlay seems and Is an extravagance extrava-gance Is excused because It is becoming yol Infrequently u tendency la I manifest toward ixtretnes and It sometimes happens hap-pens that unjustifiable extravagance In the matter of dross finds plenary Justification because of iti ability in part at least to hide the shortcomings and deficiencies of nature The reasoning is logical If artificial arti-ficial adornmentmay he used to enhance a beauty which really exists why may It not be also employed to hide a deficiency cover up a blemish and thus create a fictitious beauty close enough In resemblance resem-blance to deceive even the elect The argument seems sound enough to commend It to the judgment of those most interested hence the steal displayed by those who have real or Imaginary blemishes blem-ishes they desire to conceal Persons who attend the lectures given by professional btsutlcsj and beautymakers say that one of the most pathetic features of these occasions oc-casions Is the presence In large numbers tif ladles whose charms show signs I of decay de-cay Plain young women arc also In evi iloice but far more numerous arc those I who begin to discern In the corners of their eyes the lines which Indicate the coming crowfoot who see between the corner of the nose and the mouth the sharpening wrinkle whose quick vision observe across the forehead tho furrow marked by the ploughshare of lime In a curtain way shf Is right The women wo-men who have waved the word have ccnernllv been bountiful or at least It not have had the good fortune to bo so represented In portrait statue and bust They have had their detractors Surly womenhaters among the historians have not ni1rItcd to tell us I of Queen ElIza 1It115 red tore 01 linty Statrts wig and squint of Brandy Nnus swollen red face of the Eimlllc > 5 Tolphlile bad teeth before which she held a handkerchief handker-chief whenever she laughed of Iiumtln Borglan head of tawny hair and Mack eves Hashing fire of Mario Antoinette sheer of disdain at whatever she disliked and she seemed to dislike almost everything every-thing and everybody with whom she came In contaU of the Inexpressive doll fmc of Maria Louisa until we are prepared to believe Sappho a fright and Cleopatra us dreadful as a nightmare Hut In spite of the detractors there Is and always al-ways has been a concensus of opinion that these women in a general way were conformed lo Urn artistic standards and that if they did not possess beauty they had at least something In feature or manner man-ner which nnawiired Its requirements and In this charm lay the secret of their power A womans beauty IB her strength and for that rcnson she naturally desires 10 retain H as long as possible But we have poetic authority for the statement that messing brighten ns they take tholr High I It Is probable that no one ever fully ful-ly appreciated the value of health unlll he bad lost It It Is equally probable that no beautiful I woman HO highly prizes her beauty ns at the moment when she becomes be-comes cognizant of the fact that time the nrtlfll Is beginning lo pencil his lines In indelible Ink on her face The llrst pray hair Is an epoch In female history many women remember It and the date and circumstances cir-cumstances when it was discovered as vividly as they do any other startling event from which their annals of personal I history are dated It Is a mark a sign I an Indication that at last in spite of all efforts to the contrary time Is accomplishing accomplish-ing his predestined task I All men think nil men mortal but themselves wrote Young t omen can discern In lie faces of othrs the symptoms of decay long before they behold them In their own Mn I prow old without worry Smith for Instance has worked steadily at his desk routine for thirty years without reflecting upon h5 nee One night as ho passes through the I store ho hears two clerks chnuln together and referring to himself as Old Smith The expression catches his attention Jt is the first time ho has ever heard It On his way home he falls Into icmlnlEcont I mood reviews his past reflects with some surprise on the length of time he has been In the business and I how he built It up from nothing to Its present proportion Top ho concludes I ruppofro T must be growing old But the conclusion does not affect his app tltc Ills dinner Is eaten with the usual relish Ho eeca his tons grown to mans rstato and hla daughters voting women no reflects that tile oldest are married that lu In a grandfather becomes reconciler recon-ciler to She idea of being Old Smith nl l though ht may retain a smouldering glow of indignation at the clerk who bestowed on him the soubriquet but ho loans not a wink of Plecp ut the thought that he Is no longer i you rip With a woman It If entirely different However well aware she may be of her P good looks or of her lack of them t as the t 1 case may he sho clings to her youth and f detests the years which como and go and I I hring her Increasing npe A great pub i i i lishing house some months ago IFKIIIM a > i catalogue of Us authors Among the num I t her were nearly lOG women and the brleC t hlographlcs appended to the portraits I Rave not one Hlngle hint of ago although the birthplace was frequently Indeed generally mentioned With the men the date and place of birth wore never omit ted but with singular unanimity the Ja t olcs always forgot to give even the slight i est hint of their ages Some ono baa mild that It Is not time woman dreads but tho evidences of It However this may but the distinction la unimportant foratvo r than dislikes to tell her ago as much as ino docs to see Its telltale marks on her faceS face-S Volumes have been written on the art of 1 vowing old gracefully and yet the pilb 1 tct IH I little understood from the fact that examples arc s = o few that It IB dlfll < I alit to deduct ffcncral concluKlons In I lute of themselves women grow old and lilt I to retain the appearance of youth ami iir whatever t of ienutyItmay hate OIJ ht them Kor are they to be biamed for beauty and youth ar > their I V birthri Tl t ht to be held UB long ns possible T1ire Q ere IH however no more pitiful pecla f du I on earth than that of the woman who Whiln crowing old endeavors to make t IOale forget the tart by lIIioptll1r and I lOitetleing the 1ltlcnlsh Ways of extreme maun Uth 11 Nether the Imitation IK In dress mannrr U y VIlvcrttt on doen not matter onkcVcr deceives the experienced eye and OWK 3 for a time IL very short tlnic at that twK It Impose TIR c on the Inexperienced j Tbcattermplto rtmal OUII hOV In young however la Itself it r very laudable It Is a 1 recognition of the fact that youth Is the gift of the gods bestowed not as a pormurioncy but for temporary use and to be withdrawn at the pleasure of the giver It may be takensuddenly as through a great sorrow sor-row that makes a mature woman of n girl fatlll In her teens an accident a misfortune mis-fortune a spell of fever the pangs of Ihiprlzed love each may take away the I portion of youth may rob the young girl of her heritage and instead give her vcr to tho sear and yellow leaf Butt But-t IH a mistake for her to suppose as she vety of ten does that the lapse of years or hu stlnyit of misfortune can deprive her IIf what beauty she had for It IK In her lower to retain that If I she chooses The nlRtake lies in Lho fact that too often sho Icslros to retain tho beauty oi 20 when she has acquired tho years of 10 and this cannot be done Every I age has a beauty of Its own EveuVas there Js one glory of the sun another of the moon and another of the atars there is one beauty of the maid another of tho matron and another of the widow and na ono star dlffcreth from another In glory even so differ the beauties of wldowklnd one from another Tor the very young girl to endeavor to assume a beauty of maturity which docs not belong to her Js excusable she is Just Hglnnlng to take notice Is desirous of attention sees her older sisters receive more than herself and by aping their ways seeks to share with them the homage hom-age of their admirers For the matron of 10 however to endeavor to retain the graces of 20 Js inexcusable for It is impossible Im-possible for her to turn back the shadow of the dial and she can no more look like 20 than she can act or talk like 20 however how-ever hard she may try The beauty of tho widow Js a thing of Its own class Whether Wheth-er young or old 20 30 I 10 or even SO she has a charm which docs not depend siolc ly I < upon her good looks Why It should br < 50 is one of the mysteries but certain Jl IH that the widow of 40 so far as marrying mar-rying Is concerned can hold her own against the most charming of debutantes can even give the latter odds In weight and distance and then win the race The willow needs 110 artificial assistance from the facemnker or manufacturer of beauty She is I willing to back her face against inybodys face for her fiico Is not her sole fortune and constitutes In fact only 11 small portion of her resource Her In luoncc as compared with that of the cle uitantc Is like the power of the monarch compared with that of tho policeman The Jluccoiil and thf young girl are obeyed while present though the authority of each may he derided when the source of the authority Is absent the widow Is I the monarch whose power Is acknowledged lo he uttermost parts of Ills dominions The beanIy of the debutante Is that of the meteor the beauty of the widow la I that of the moon Seeing that these things are so that woman best preserves her beauty who concedes the fact that lime works changes In us I all and gracefully J submits to the Inevitable To some extent the admission ad-mission Is tacitly made by all women Ihe young woman of iTi does not seek to bulbs n herself upon society as a miss oCr oC-r She acknowledges the difference In age usually dresses acts and speaks accordingly ac-cordingly But after especially In single hl > dnoss she pusses CO slits has no compunctions of conscience In seeking to pass her clf as 25 and from that time on if she endeavors to keep up thC deception icr life becomes an open conflict between i her looks and her years through the continued con-tinued effort lo compel the former to mls cpresent the latter Fur a time she succeeds suc-ceeds but the years roll on as they have IL habit of doing and one clay some competitor com-petitor In the struggle for youthfulness inkljully comments on tljc growing discrepancy dis-crepancy between her age and her ap earance of ago Then the spoll IP broken and she noon hears of Mrs 1 I ThusandSos comment on he ridiculousness of some people trying lo look young when everybody knows they will never see SO stain To a man this would he a joke oy would on a pinch jiss for such lOlL woman It Is likea stab In the heart for with merciless hand It tears away the 1 mask of deceit and shows her to the world exactly as she prefers not to he seen But then in the ultimata analysis most of UK arc hypo cribs anyhow and many both men and women cherish the delusion that they are deceiving their associates when even the dullest eyes can easily pierce tho transparency trans-parency of the mask Mon frequently imagine that t they have covered their actions ac-tions with an Inscrutable veil when even he who runs roads the motive at a glance women frequently flatter themselves that powders and pigments the arts of the hairdresser milliner and dressmaker reduce re-duce f 0 to T 1 but no one IK deceived and the attempt only notices the failure more conspicuous and deplorable The secret of beauty lies not In the art of massage nor in the skill of the perfumer per-fumer not In the dyers art nor In the taste of the wljjmnJcer not in tho cleverness clever-ness of the fitter dressmaker or milliner II lint In a recognition of the fact that the human face and form chance with every I year of life that bcantly Is comparative either Hum absolute and that It Is possible possi-ble to he as I beautiful at GO as at 10 provided pro-vided the secret Is I discovered i and the discovery dis-covery acted upon After all the old adage about beauty being be-ing only skin deep has a measure of truth provided only that the same admission he made of ugliness Beauty of face without expression is simply the beauty of tho graven Image of the statue of the painting paint-ing which looks down from wall pedestal or niche Itself unchanged unchanging I through t generations Tho beauty of expression ex-pression never falls to please tho Intellect shining through the face Is the brightest the truest and In all Its variations the most permanent Gifted with this any woman may set at defiance tho ravages of time On one of the hills of the Rhine there stands an old castle which one of the robber barons of tho river once hold against all comers Deserted by Its occupants occu-pants It fell into ruins but kindly nature na-ture In aversion to nil ugliness trained up Its walls and > over Us corners the green branches and leaves 1 of the ivy vine The old castle Is I now a thing of beauty from far and wide come tourists to admire tho spectacle It presents at tho summit of a gentle slope Tho old castle may not at first havo been beautiful It was not built or artistic lines but It has bccomu so thorough the kindly efforts of nature to smooth over faults and tone down the Lug llnRs of Its first appearance Many a character originally rugged may become beautiful through encouragement of the gentler qualities of mind and heart She Is I most beautiful whose good qualities most clearly appear In her face The manufacturer of beauty may hero and there smooth out a wrinkle or change the color of the hair but can do nothing to alter or Improve the features made beautiful beau-tiful not by art but by natural good traits of mind and heartS Louis Globe Democrat Dem-ocrat |