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Show ! HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL By Zu.x'-&M- Fashion Often an Exaggeration of Ugliness," says Madame Ise'bell. "The Esthetic Sense Needs Better Cultivation. What is meant fcy 4 fashion ?' When did fashion heinT Is it a law imposed on the mnuy by the few or is it u law of human nature? Those ure interesting- questions. The instinct to improve on nature, or nt loast to change nature is easily traced back to the tava' or primitive races. The African tribes, according to the reports of travelers enlarge the si7.o ot the lips bv inutilatinc them, t-ticlc darts through the nostrils ami rins tbronli the ears, snd some tribes rhai.e t lie shut ot the heavl by hnndainj; it tiurinc infancy. The American Indian painted his iaoe, the (,'hinese compressed the feet of their women, and so on. If we study the habits of past ci vili-aticns wo find eeiywherc some attempt to pervert the normal or to call attention to some ana.-tomi.al ana.-tomi.al (HM'tiliarity. When we look at the history of modern riviliration we tind manv cases of perversions from the lovely. Tne fact that the standard of beautv scorns to d i fl'er in d i tTeren t aces a n .i c 1 i m es is often used as an argument t o excuse frealt fashions we will like them when we evt used to them. As a rule e rarely have, the time to fot tise.l to tlieni, so quickly are they followed by sotno oilier jdiase of the changing modes. There is. after all. only one enduring utandurd id' beauty, and that is healthful health-ful nature. We admire the rose because be-cause it is fre.sh. unsullied, without mar or blemish. Any taint of disease, of abnormality ab-normality in beast or vegetation anil both are discarded. The human tipuro in youth and health r I , . : ' ::t. I' v-v I v" b - ' - . is the standard of beauty, ace arv ii-. ion that does not develop so a :o :" serve and prote. t rhese liee is ftf of esthetic ouaiirioaiions. The criz;--the bustle, the hotir class eoret. fashionable mod.ern shoe are r2-that r2-that drstort nature and are more than examples of abnonrs;:." posed on women bv torr.e desjiot. Is the civilired world in this re very far rcmovel fro:n tb"-1 s.v: (.'riuolines and waist conirressers -j for the moment disappeared, t-t :-last :-last year omen not the best certainly, but a s::rhieut nun:bor tract attention have woru oeiort- -and made up their faces it ft r.-" i.aint and powder that dil ct '' least pretend to supplement Parbarie and nplv. wo all SiT ,:: the fad is over. Put. until wo sen v e 1 o p a h i j;h e r esthetic: se use i-pard i-pard to clotaes. we can never ? that the next whim of fashion xi' : be equally uely and abnormal. |