Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — FACES THAT ARE FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FACES THAT ARE FAIR.

ATTRACTIVENESS THAT COMES FROM DIFFERENT NATURES. A Dreamy Lovlnf Fnlntelleetual Face Makes One Kemember that the Loveliest Woman Is Not Always the Woman with Intellect. Fcmtntne Physiognomy. New York correspondentce:

*OU may see a lot of portraits in (his fashion article. It doesn’t matter who tho sirls were, further than - that they were genuine belles In their first season “out" soolety. They were not beauties, yet not one of - them laoked charm. The attractiveness In , each case was of a different nature. They

were all young and about the same age, yet only in the case of one was the charm largely that of youth. The first was, perhaps, the “commonplace” one of the lot, but she bad such a bright, wholesome face. The head was wide at the temples and just below; the cheek-bones a little high, and so the cheek outline was marred somewhat; the nose, a sturdy little feature with a humorous tendency about the tip of It; a determined cbln, and a mouth that needed softening a little; kisses would do it, but make sure never a one but the right one would ever get a chance to do the softening. The oolorlng was ruddy and wholesome, and the hair full of glints. Sbe had a round, pretty figure that might bo made more of than that firm mouth and those level eyes oi hers permitted. She lookod a sweet, lovable, sensible girl, not beautiful, but who stdp'ped to think of. bas. The next girl would have struck you as young before any other Impression was made. Her face was not beautiful, either, so far as regularity of feature went, but she had such rare coloring. The skin was a pale pink, the hair llko a child’s, yellow without gloss, and the eyes, set very far apart, were violet under blaek lashes. Both forehead and chin set back a little from the fullest curve of the profile. A dreamy, loving, unintellectual face, tho sort of face that makes one remember that the loveliest woman is not, and never will be to many of us, the woman with “intellect.” The average blonde is likely to have a sharpness of oontour and wide eyes. In other words, the face, though beautiful, is often a little cold, and a little shrewish, a face that easily suggests temper and discontent and primness. But it

Is not SO with this type; the head droops on the slender neck, the lids are heavy, the eyes appealing and the lips wistful. The form is likely to be slender, never angular, and the curve of the back is always lovely. The hands are delicate. The taste Is so likely to select soft materials and delicate colors that such a girl seldonj falls, all unconsciously, to be quite In harmony with herself, from the soft knot of her hair to the- soft folds about her feet, und the pale beauty of the colors she selects. Such a woman must bo cared for and happy in the close gentleness of affection, or she soon fades and loses her beauty. Such a woman, too, is most beautiful when her heart is full of vague maiden dreams, rather than when fulfilment has matured her. “Maidenhood'" might well be drh-wn as belonging to this type. This girl at 22 seems more like 18, and is now at her greatest beauty. The other girl Will be prettier far in her thirties than she Is now. The one takes more chances In life than does the other. What possibilities does modern life present such a face? Observe the narrow eyes and straight,delloate brows, the short neck and well-rounded figure; a strange mixture of feeling and Intellect. The lower jaw is well in alvance of the upper, the lips are full and red. It is not a modern face by any means, The pale hair and gray eyes belong to each other. A picture never does such a face justice. One is likely to say “ugly” to the picture; it never occurs to one to say so of (he original. Women with faces like this used to realize their powers. In modern society they may live and die and know only that they are bored a good deal. One always expects the nose to be the least bit tho delicate roman type. Perhaps It Is the

distinctly modern line of that feature that reconciles the face to Its surroundings. Such a woman is speculative, Introspective and cruel, too, If it occurs to her to be. Not cruel “to huTt,” but to see how the victim will act. A cold, Utter cruelty to encounter, yet one that means less harm than it may accomplish. Such a woman is round-limbed and lithe, except for the short neck, that somehow gees with her bull dog chin and lower lip, and adds to that part of tho strange fascination of her face. She dreeses conventionally always. The modem dress does,, not rouse her imagination. She could never realize her possibilities of beauty In it, so it is as well. She needs the vivid gowning of old times, and barbarous brilliancy of jewels, and rich drapery. It is a wonder she does not realize this! But maybe that is accounted for by her pale hair. She is a woman how at twentytwo far more than either of the others are, or for that matter ever will be. The years may bring her greater beauty; they will eurely add Interest to her face. She, of them all, has a future, and seems to havo had a past. Her

chaneeo for happiness are few. She is likely to make mistakes in her choice of a companion. Intellect and Inclination, too, must be satisfied; mere affection will not suffice. She will demand much and Rive little; unlike ihe blonde just looked at, who will' give all and ask only that she may give; unlike the first girl, who will want little but practical companionship and who will give just wholesome affection and good-natured comradeship. If one might go into palmistry the hands of these three would afford strange contrast. This last hand is long and firm and like a man’s for strength. The palm is bright with color, and the first finger long. The hairdressing is curiously at variance with the type of fa;>e. That Is beoause this woman gives no thought to her dress and w ar. No use talking, every style of girl does not suit the parting of hair at the brows; and those who do not should not permit themselves to be bullied Into adopting It. The girl with the low forehead and strong chin will usually be wiser If she keeps to her own modifications of the pompadour. When the pompadour is used as a hard, shiny roll of hair, sort of skinned back from the forehead, and outlining the temples In an uncompromising way, it is seldom a

becoming style uuless the features are severely regular. But the pompadour that Is merely a drawing back very loosely and softly of Ihe front hair into a soft puffy continuation of the half-eoll at the crown of the head, us shown in the third picture, is almost surely pretty, It softens and yet harmonizes with the outlines of a “e.rong" faoe, and It gives due value to the contour of a well-shaped hdad. Great care must be taken not to exaggerate the puffing of the hair above the forehead, that the goneral contour of the head in profile may not be thrown out of harmonious proportion. Also the lines the bodice makes about the neck must be studied In reference to their effect upon the forehead and profile line. The woman who wears her hair high over her forehead must carry her head well or the effect will be awkward and topheavy. Likewise she should have a certain dignity of expression. Granted all these requirements, and the effect is bound to be good v and the woman who oan fill the requirements would bo foolish, at the caprice of fashion, to risk a change lit her hair that might mar her good points. Such a typo will seem to gain In dignity by the general adoption around her of parted tresses and tho accompanying droopiness of effect. And she will be wise, therefore, to stick to her own style. For the blonde blessed with that wonderful shell-like quality of coloring sometimes bestowed on pale, yellowhaired folk no gown could be more lovely than one to emphasize the Impression suoh women give you or pinkpearl purity. See our last portrait. A word of her complexion before we speak of her gown. Most blondes make the mistake of trying to tint their skins too white. Let them instead use pink powder and in every way possible bring out

whatever suggestion of plnkness their skin may possess. This is the quality of color that makes some women's skin so marvelous a tiling. This pinkness should show where the contour rounds, like the bloom on a peach. A gown of white mull over a most delicate shade of clear Dink silk will be a wise selection, a little startling, perhaps, for the lining should be of so delicate a shade that It shall blend into the color of the skin. The neck should be cut low, aud the edge of the bodice set with pale blushroses. The sort that seem ready to fall away from their salmon centers. The mull, which of course is not* a "dead white” but a “ warm ” white, is set loosely in the lining. The sleeves a>e softly puffed, and are of the mull without the lining, the tint under making lfs absence not noticeable. The sleeves are thickly strewn with pink pearls. About the neck a row of pink pearls. A rich pure pink that shall bring out the delicacy of the skin, and not change the comparison. If such a woman lacks a deepening of color on the cheeks, by all means she must supply it,butmoßtdelicately. Her lips should be almost scarlet, a tint well suggested by the neck beads, and carried out into perfection in the lips. The hair is pale gold, and the eyes dark, either violet or‘ brown, better the latter. If the eyes are a clear turquoise blue the wholo effect will be marred. Copyright. 1803.

FIRM MOUTH AND LEVEL EVES.

DREAMY AND UNINTELLECTUAL.

A MODITIED TOMPADOUR.

WHITS MULL OVER PINK SILK.