Show If I What Real Beauty Means Wilco By Ella Ell Wheeler Wilcox 0 O ONE E ever conceived ed an Idea NO N of or an nn ugly gly Angel or a 0 common common- place much less Heaven coven disorderly All AJI our thoughts of Heaven are arc thoughts of ot beauty order and harman harmony har har- man mony Why h then should wo bo rebuked for tor loving beauty In this life lire for wanting to be beautiful to the tho eye ec and for tor de do- do sIring biting beauty In our homes and In our environment There never nover was n t more skit SkIn untruthful deep axiom than Beauty la Is but Beauty real beauty Is as deep as 08 the soul as deep as ns the tho secret center centor of ot the Universe where God abide abides Beauty Is 19 a n thing thine to be bo earnestly earnesty t sought Bought constantly cultivated and dear dear dear- u ly h. prized i Wo We o should never rest until we have created beauty within us about us and of or us Whatever Is natural naturally beautiful In I an any human being Is as an expression of ot what Is Is' Is now or was In In some somo e other or other many previous lives beautiful t In deed decd t and thought whatever Is plain ugly deformed or commonplace ex ex- expresses presses similar states of ot thought r aC action In oth other r lives and unconsciously to themselves people t are worshipping at the altar of ot truth C and goodness and love when they worship worship wor- wor ship beauty When hen a a. man loves I t a a. womans woman's beautiful face tace and form corm even though though she be seU selfish selfish sh Immoral and pett petty he is loving the qualities which In n a former life made her beautiful Unfortunately for her she Is making deformity and disease for herself in another Incarnation b by breaking tho the I laws of ot harmony harmon hero here and now If It she Is living JIvinG selfishly The Tho Greeks and Romans who worshipped wor- wor shipped and cultivated external beauty beau beau- t t ty and who broke cr c every law human and divine meantime b by lying cruel and Immoral lives drove the early Christian Fathers to the other extreme and made mado Christianity synonymous for a time Uma with and a repulsive sive sIva exterior r rs Our Pilgrim Fathers tan forebears eliminated and our Puritan Purl Purl- I everything c not absolute absolutely needful from Bet lief their belIet be be- be in what was right to be And nd and have so even tolla today wo we find tho the austere and unlovely home and the plain and unbecoming garments Identified with their descendants When th thov v a iove uve ot or in any f form rr ii they usually apologize for tor It t as for tor an nn Indis Indis- I II I recall a violently who religious old oid lad lady showed a worldly relative a 0 plain warm winter cloak which sported one silk ellk tassel at tho the bask back of tho the hood I I feel Ceel condemned whenever I see that tassel said tho the poor woman Tho The tassel was purel purely ornamental therefore there there- fore foro sho eho felt It was a sin to wear It Yet Tot when this good hood soul dreamed of ot Heaven Hea her dreams were always awas of of glory lorY and beauty beyond words and of or Angels clothed In shining garments The love lo of ot beauty is born In over every fOU soul J. J 1 I It ought ou-ht to be cultivated and Its true meaning ought to be made a part of or all aU rell religious lous training Cleanliness order enthusiasm In industry In- In usefulness high Ide Ideals Is unswerving unswerving un un- swerving faith prayer and aspiration altruism love of humanity these are all principles of ot beauty and lead to toward toward to- to ward beautys beauty's s goal Koal No human being however howe ugly can live I constant constantly with these qualities i alive In his mind and heart Wo without es I growing gring beautiful eventually Added to these things should be bo an and understanding of ot color form torm harmony harmon y of appropriateness and tho relation what w Wo fro desire to what wo we need in Then we tae have havo all tho the necessary qualifications to produce beauty In our surroundings sur- sur alto No 1 woman fh should uld bo be satisfied until has hns mado made herself herselt an and her homo home express express ex- ex press beauty to tho the casual eye When hon a woman or a man begins to toi understand now Tn-now how simple Is real beauty i the tho desire for tor a n. conglomeration of at obJects ob- ob and for a 0 successIon o ot costly things Is 16 lost Beauty means economy in the long run Men who ar arc aro unlimited in their generosity gon- gon to give opulence to war are usually misers i when appealed to for tor aId it In making a city beautiful for tor the enjoyment of or Peace America ought to be made tho the most beautiful country on earth We have havo natural scenery and every variation of ot climate and we wo have hao unlimited wealth In our brave young young- land We 0 havo have gifted architects archi- archi Jf S and artists and artisans A Rational na Ra- Ra committee of at art ought to bo be lic appointed an and the tho plan for tor every y public public pub pub- building which is proposed propos d for tor erection In any city in America should first pass through tho the hands of this art committee for tor suggestions and Im Im- m- m A spirit of or amiable competition com com- petition should be bo awakened between cities which would give gho birth to civic lc pride I heard two men who were familiar with ever every part of at the United States speak with glowing terms of tho the beautiful beau beau- tiCul streets parks s and buildings to bo ho seen In Springfield Mass There Is more city pride In n that town and more public spirit and enterprise en enterprise en- en than In any other city In America of ot Its size said ono one man and tho the other agreed with him That Is an excellent reputation for tor any city to possess It means tho the purifying of ot slums tho the cleaning out of ot congested alleys and ways by and the march of ot health and education eventually through the town where Beauty has been Installed Nature Is beautiful The Creator has taken InfInite infinite In In- In finite pains with forests mountains rivers meadows to render them beau beau- Only where man has trespassed with selfishness Indolence Immorality crime greed and sloth has ugliness cr crept pt In But where man has hns operated co with tho the Creator to make the earth beautiful beautiful beau beau- there thoro Is the perfection of ot beauty That Is what ever every man and every woman ought to be doing each accordIng accord- accord In lag Ing to his place and power The Tho poorest poorest poor poor- est man can begin by cultivating cleanliness In his bis person and order in his habits If It each ench did only that the two foundation stones of beauty beaty would woul l be Le laid on earth earth cleanliness cleanliness and or or- der Every ory woman can do o something toward the great work of ot making this earth rth a n preparatory room to Heaven She can keep koep her person attractive and her house In order And each ono one can cnn think of ot and desire desire de de- sire more beauty each can cultivate the producing beauty-producing thoughts and habits and b by this thinking an and desiring de de- de- de dei i siring beauty will form Itself In n tho the Invisible and afterward become vial vial- ble to the mortal eye eyo It Is a great grent and ond good element to introduce into the heart thIs heart this Intense love of at beauty |