Show ROMAN WOMEN bechold Be com Cold finuken mai aaa lumma aa camace the its tam faces of roman women of f the upper classes are cold har hard d and impenetrable as cameos says HU bar pers 41 Magarine ine in a face which Is at all beautiful you will not nud find a line which Is not perfect and this elegance and sureness of line goes with that complexion which is the finest of au all complexions completions complex ions pure ivory and which I 1 carries with it the promise froin tse of a temperament pe in which there is all the subtlety of fire the distl distinction action between the properly aristocratic and the strictly plebeian face is I 1 think less marked in rome than in any city almost all roman women have regular faces the profile clearly cut and in a straight line black hair often with deep tones of blue in it and sometimes curling crisply dark eyes often of a fine uniform brown large steady profound with that unmeaning profundity profundity which means race and which one sees in the jewess the gypsy they have a truly roman dignity and beneath that the true fire without which dignity is but the comely shroud of a corpse and though there is not a trace in them of the soft smiling catlike air of the women of venice and not much of the vivid hardy uncaring catl cati veness of the women ot of naples they are content to let yo you see in the them m that reasonable nearness to the animal mal which no italian woman Is ia ashamed to acknowledge they have often a certain massiveness of build which mikes makes a achl d look like a young woman and a young woman like a matron but tor for italians they are tall and though one sees none of the trim neapolitan waists it la Is but rarely that one sees even among the market women bringing in their baskets on their heads those square and lumpish figures which roll so comfortably through venice |