Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS P R niX DIX the tho World Ugliest lf Paid Woman Writer CLASSICAL PROFILE TO BE B A WOMAN NEED NOT HAVE A BEAUTIFUL IF IF INTELLIGENCE AND SYMPATHY AND JUST SHEER GOODNESS SHINE OUT BEHIND HER MERE FEATURES THEN SHE HAS A BEAUTIFUL FACE FACEA A CORRESPONDENT T asks A f In what docs does feminine beauty consist What docs does It take to make mak maka maa a beautiful Boman oman Beauty Is In the eye of the beholder as has been truly said and every eye sees It In Ina ina ina a different way What I Is pulchritude to one man Is It homeliness to another and the peach f crop of one people Is la I the lemon output to another Japanese for Instance consider nothing sOl s THE RHE hideous as a straight eye ee except a straight eye eyer jl r brow and they see nothing to admire in our ox-e ox elm ox-elm ox ed edI I accustomed to tiny veiled woI wo- I vamps The Indians shudder at the sight of ot tall bold faced t men y and American with their tree free gait and In Ink I k dependent nays ays The Turks estimate beauty by th of ot it the eon better beller hUe l wo we tavor y nd and the more dress p living living skeletons who can slip In a tube dress without 1 i S bulging It 11 So It Each to his liking and no arguing cr ULI DL goes 0 er tastes standpoint in J l t abstract t feminine beauty Is la 11 t I Ol oen from our Speaking and color and line It consists of ot a symmetrical S mold mold- moldIng matter of form of ot the subtle p ddlL of ot soft flesh of tilt the structure the bony tog Ing of ot of colors A beauty must have lustrous hair classical classica 11 delicate blending complexion even white teeth tenth a glen slen glender cream and-cream features a peaches der graceful figure passing lm 1 us a not enough The They may give these are But even Intelligence we grow as quickly quick unless she has of beut but that has no meaning Na her we do at a picture tired of looking at as lure ture lavishes Its lis finest in vain tain aln on the outside of a womans woman's it tails falls to put blains bialos on the inside but for tor a minute the eyes dumb are easy on but beautiful The y of perfections the physical ph that js Ja j all 1111 We soon cease ccase to see even the dull and stupid who bole boie bOI e us ues still something more that a womans woman's woman face must There Thee There is have In it to make it beautiful It must have a lovely soul behind it No woman le Is 1 beautiful even if she has a face like combined with the wit the that launched a thousand housand ships one sullen selfish expression No of a Sappho if she has a peevish mouth is beautiful If there are fretful lines about it Goodness and sweetness that make up the intangible of a noble nature before she womans woman's countenance have to set their seal upon a IS really And this beautiful Is why beauty belongs to no particular age and and a beautiful why sometimes a homely woman is beautiful woman v oman ugly r has a monopoly of ot beauty and is the beauty THINK that youth WE t me ot or life but blot this is only true o of ft women omen omen who have little sixteen at their best from gence Bence The morons and the near morons are to twenty t enty because then they have the freshness and the prettiness animal spirits that pastor pass of all young soung oung things And they have havo the high for But when hen these go as the they do in time all Is gone beautiful girl Is ugly In middle age and and the woman oman who l ho was nas a hideous In old age ate Not so the then n Homan oman with brains At twenty she may ha hate hae ha e been an Ugly duckling duckling- lacking all the charms of her dull pink and white sister chisels her face into a beauty it never p yet iet et S AS as years ears so go o by intelligence knew V in her youth Knowledge wisdom S sympathy understanding shine through her face like Uke an electric light through an alabaster vase and irradiate her whole hole personality It is only the stupid Inert self seif centered women who may they older The women who rear to lose their looks as grow are vital who are alive to their finger tips who are Interested at middle and interesting are nearly always more attractive age than they were in their girlhood Often a great emotional experience will make a woman beautiful We see ue this In the sudden flowering of a girl In love when she takes on what often seems to be almost a physical transformation There Is a deeper look to her eyes an added color to her cheeks a softness and a glory about her that makes that makes us that happi happi- happiness happiness happiness even a homely girl pretty and say lilY ness Is the greatest beautifier fAND 1 A ND we hate hac ha c all nil seen the look on a mothers mother's face turn tun into almost saintly beau beau- beauty even a rugged hard haid featured ugly woman ty t All of us think of our mothers as being beautiful and aud the reason for it Is because the they have always had that look of ot ineffable brooding I Jove ve upon their faces for us Often Just sheer goodness makes an ugly woman beautiful There are women who have not one attribute of good looks who are mountains of fat or and ungainly In fig figure 1 ure who have little wisps of hair that they screw up Into but but- buttons buttons tons on top of their heads whose skins are harsh and leathery and whose features feature are Just features badly assembled yet I Iwho who for all of that are beautiful because their souls louIs are so beautiful When you look at them you do not see the faded eyes eyes eyes- you see the tears that have flowed In pity for all who mourned You do not see the uncouth figure You see lee the breast on which little orphan children have lain and have been comforted and found a it mother You do not see the knotted hands You only see the kind deeds they have wrought and so 10 these women wear a halo that shed sheds a glory about them that makes wakes them more beautiful than the youngest and prettiest girl OR OR eOR In Its last analysis beauty is goodness and goodness is beauty DOROTHY DIX 1924 by Public Ledger Company |