Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Artificial Beauty In Rome. [ARTICLE]

Artificial Beauty In Rome.

Personal artifice is at least as old as the Roman empire, for, speaking of the artificial beauty of a coquette, Mar* tiol says: “Gollu, you are but a composition of falsehood. While you were living at Rome your boir was growing on the banks of the Rhine. At night when you lay aside your silken robes you lay aside your teeth also. Twothirds of your person are locked up in boxes for the night. The eyebrows with which you make such insinuating motions are the work of your slaves. Thus no man can say, ‘I love you,’ for you are not what he loves, and no one loves what you are.”