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Show CAN'T 8INQ AND LOOK PRETTY. That Is Why On Woman Has No Vocal Ambitions. "Of. course It's nice in some ways to have a beautiful voice, but I'm glad I don't sing," said the pretty woman as she applauded perfunctorily after the soprano solo. "Yes, I am fond, of music, but that is sufficient. If I could be tempted 'to sing, what would, happen to my good looks? I think it" is not silly for a woman to wish to look well at all times. "A woman never looks pretty or beautiful when she sings. She invariably invari-ably twists her mouth to one side and makes her face appear crooked. I have keenly observed the" last ten singers I have heard, and every one of them opened her mouth on a bias. I haven't the slightest Idea why they do It, unless the 'muscles ot one side of the face are stronger than those on the other, and in the effort to sing the stronger. muscles do the most work. I suppose men do the same thing, but generally they wear mustaches to cover their mouths. r "If one shuts one's eyes a song always al-ways Is enjoyed more, for there is something disturbing about a pretty woman deliberately making herself a fright by stretching her mouth in song." |
