Show t d Beauty a Matter of Personal Taste Only General Agreement la That tho Power to Attract I Un falling Evldonco of Its Posse Ion Beauty Is n question for the blind to decide remarked Aristotle when pressed for a definition Later on ho wrote a treatise on tho subject but the manuscript Is not extant and oven It It were would we ever be made to agree on the subject of beauty f Men like Hegel Schclllng Flchte G t I Emerson Burke mid Oautlcr wrote 1 philosophical volumes and essays on this topic none of them agreeing however All the poets the artists and tho musicians of the world have tried to tell what beauty Is and only on one Dingle point Has a general agreement beer made evident the essence of beauty Is the power to attract AH to tho secret of this power all tho v world disagrees t Tho brilliant Oautlor says A woman who Is beautiful Is brainy t enough that Is she has the quality of being beautiful I prefer a pretty mouth to a flue mind I would give r fifty souls for n single well formed ankle Typically French this Tho Mohammedans have a great ethical work called EI Ktab which defines tho essentials for feminine loveliness as follows four things must be of black color hair eyes eyelashes and eyebrows Four things must be white skin teeth hands and the Iris Four things must bo redlIplI tongue gums and cheeks Four things must bo roundhead round-head neck arm and ankle Four ihlpKS must he slender fingers arms legs and the back The final tests however are four proofs of Ignorance which are betrayed be-trayed lay tho c yes nostrils lips and flows So you see the French writer and the Mohammedan sage practically practi-cally agree In raining tho body of woman higher than her mind Kdmund Burke was a very particular particu-lar chap Here Is his punctilious recipe She must not ho too tall but gentle and docile She must have many varied spiritual qualities She must be extremely well built without producing un Impression of strength or power She must have a clear wholesome complexion New York Herald |