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Show GREATEST OF ALL P0WE..3 Wealth, Ancestry, Genius, and Knowledge Knowl-edge All Pals Before the Wondrous Won-drous Magic of Beauty. The magic of henuty Is mote patent than was that of Simon Magus or of Pnnu-elHUa. Beauty Is a different thing I from on nment, which mny he the dis guise of ugliness. It Is a gift tor which no iirtlticinl tractions can ever he a auhstltute. It is a power greater than hlrth, wealth, knowledge or genius. I'eople muy he proud of their hirth. hut after all we are not our Hiieestor. The rich innn may transmit his wealth ' to hla offspring, htit It muy he all wasted In a Mingle generation. Knowledge Knowl-edge mny he a MHtiHfitctlon to Its possessor, pos-sessor, hut has It not heen said that "the more a innn gnlneth of knowledge the more he gnlneth of sorrow?" (Jen-lus, (Jen-lus, although It wins admiration, may tie mi obstacle rather thnn nn aid )' success In life. Hums nnd I'oe am) Kiiinlelnlre had genius, hut It did not hring them any worldly ndvnntnge. Henuty. on the Contrary, is a key which opens nil doors. It shines on the world Ilka the ran, nnd its Influence) is universal, In Rmtrton'a words, it is "Its own excuse for lielng." To he beautiful Is to he worshiped, Idolized, caressed, anil adored. The plain, good peoplf mny protest ngnie-.t the Injustice Injus-tice of a world which prefers heauty to virtue. Hut the fact remains. Itix'heslcr Pool Kinross. |