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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1905)
I gill -v Z ' ( A -V 0k A ft "Tr yyyiTW MX f tosTM mm iwmm M SWJ?m"WW :jT trjr-rzrj 1' ,Jrf U i - r cfrrtuqal UEEN AMELIB of Tortugal Is known all tl I over Europe a not only the loveliest but the & ' I n"5"' progressive of monarchs. In her recent I trip to London she received an ovation such as nus never wiurc ueeu inon-iew n "As beautiful as a Portuguese!" was in expression used In the days of Columbus to Indicate a b.nutiful woman. The Portuguese, in thse days weie famed for their beauty. And they were even then known to have certain beauty artT which kept them lovely when other women faded; and they were well known to be mistresses of c-rtnln secrets and potions which preserved their youth when other women grew dull. The Portuguese In those days, and the women of Portu gal of today, a'e noted for thflr fine eyes. Ijirge, clear, and sweet best describes them. There Is little fire and no flash, hut there It a certain lambent, liquid loveliness which at tracts one at once. Accorded Beauty Palm by Europe. And of all the handsome Portuguese women yueen Amelle is the prettiest. She has received prises at the prize beauty shows, those genteel charitable bazaira where good is done tiy womenand merriment raised by a little harmless fem .i Ine rivalry. And she has been accorded the beauty palm by painters and sculptors. "Other women may excel In this feature and in that. Tmt for a typlc-il beauty, more French than Portuguese, more Spanish than French, with a touch of Portuguese mingled Trying to Solve the Unsolvable cMystery of, Woman's cMoods E like that little boy who, when somebody A T quoted " An honest man's the noblest work of fI I Qod." said: "No; my mother Is the noblest Y I work of God." lie was right, we are sure, so right that Robert Burns, could be nave heard him, m ould have gl- n bis line a prettier touch. Hut there are other women. Oood. bad, cool, cunning, thinking, plotting, loving, hating, pleasing, weeping, heart breaking, heart selling, fascinating, repelling but even the dictionary can hardly contain the Adjective which women can claim. They are all set down tn a little book. " Women and the Wits," whlrh he who runs may read. In this volume are gathertd together more than can be counted of the witty things which the wittiest and wisest men of all the ages have said of woman. 1 la not the ffrvt garland that could have been made of other men's flowers; the sweetness of the rose Is ulmoft lost among so many unlovely things. But he who has r.ad through this little book, whatever he may think of all else la It, will agree wHh one thing; he will believe that "the one who has read the book that Is called woman kuows more than the one who haa gown pale In libraries." Wonderful Is the Book Called Woman. . It la a wonderful book, the book culled woman, published In the Garden of Eden, bound In silks, and satins, and rags. W' hT A V v : cr sr .,.11 til Mfc j?rjtet&' . v ifi'Wi . . tens oi England and of rrom. a pKotograplv taten. during trus HirtujueseQueers Tecerd visit to Erland In the veins of generations, the queen of Portugal easily holds the palm as the typical beauty of that country," said a sculp tor recently, who went there to model the head of the hand somest woman of the land fo a permanent exhibit In London. Queen Amelie of Portugal, b side being a great beauty naturally, la of the Intellectual type. Her beauty Is of the full, well balanced sort. It Is almost too perfect. She haa ripe lips, almost too wide. They are a vivid red. almost too cherry. Her cheeks are a poppy when they should be a faint peach color. Her eyes are a snapping blue, when they should be a more subdued hue, and her skin is as white as snow. She is a study in contrasts, clear and lovely. Says Woman's Beauty Depends on Self, The queen believes that a woman's beauty depends largely upon herself. ' I would not, If I were a woman trying to be beautiful and what woman Is not anxious for this great gift? at tempt to be lovely without intellectual traits. The woman who Is pretty without brains Is like a pitcher that stands upon the dinner table empty. No matter how beautiful, it Is useless. " History Is made," said her majesty, " by beautiful wonv en with brains. The brainier a woman the better. And the more brains she has the better It will be for her and for the whole world. There is no such thing as being too Intel lectual. " It is sometimes said," remarked she, laughingly, ' that when you make women Intellectual you make them unat- read by millions In every generation, having more Influence in the world than all other hooka that ever were written and all the kings that ever were born. ' There is something of woman In everything that pleases," says one of the voices which make up the chorus of love and hate which we find here, and It is true, perhaps truer, than that other saying: "A woman dies twlor the day that she quits life and the day that she ceases to please.' The subtle charm of woman has made the world go round. If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the face of the world would have been changed, said Pascal, anticipating Byron's ' What I oet a world and made a hero tiy? A tear in Cleopatra's eye"; and the thought Is thus expressed in this book: f Womeo have more strength iu their looks than we have In our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments." 1 Woman's Tongue a Popular Theme. That something which has never been quite denned, which gives woman all her powtr, has not to -en better expressed than In Bossuet's sentence: "The cruelest revenge of a woman is often to remain faithful to a man "; and that Is a beautiful Setting of the same thought which e owe to an anonymous writer, who said: "The whlier of a beautiful woman can be heard farther than the loudest call of duty." ' -P:":' 7 . UIIIIIL 111 3 tractive. 1 Is affirmed that when you put brains in a wom an's head you crowd out the loveliness and the sweetness. " But this is a mistake'. The more brains a woman has the better It will be for her. If she has a fine supply she will tave enough to know that women should always be beauti ful. The brainy woman will make the most of her fasrlna- tions. She will care for her personal appearance. She will be beautifully groomed. She will take advantage of the beauty arts. She will be a Judge of cosmetics. And she will have learned the trick or the knack, or whatever you would style It, of being a handsome woman. "To say that a woman Is Intellectual, to affirm that she ;s brainy, is merely to say that she knows enough to make the most of every fascination that the Lord has given her. Jt Is to say that she Is able o make herself twice as desira ble iruevery respect as other women of less Intellect. Believes Brains Reinforce Charm. "What would a queen be who could not attract the ad miration of her subjects? How would any woman expect to rule society or the world without knowing the secret of success namely : beauty?" ' No woman Is a firmer believer In beauty than the loveiy Ha who looks for witticisms about a woman's tongue is not disappointed. It was a woman -who said: "Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rum " And from George Eliot we have culled this: " Half the sorrows of women would be averted If they could repress the speech they know to b useless nay, the speech they have resolved hot to utter." . " Two women," said Shakspeare, " make cold weather," which contradicts much of what we hear of women's tongues. It was a cruel man who wrote that " Hell Is paved with women's tongues." But it was a man, too. who wrote, one of the best things here: " Silence has been given to woman the better to express her thoughts." Worst Enemy ot Her Sex Is Herself. The worst enemy of a woman is a woman, and some of the bitterest things said of women have, it Is true, been said by themselves. Did nut lime. Ue Stael declare that " I am glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman"? That Is a severe Indictment of female taste, too, which Mile, de Ljtsptnasse delivered when she said: "A woman would be In despair If nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear," although It is douMUss true. "The plainest man who pays attention to women," we read again, " will sometimes succeed as well as the hand somest who does not," and " in courting many dry wood for Shi Ski' - :r r --s-i-. QuccivAmclic queen of Portugal. But she believes that beauty should be reinforced with brains. She holds that charms may catch the eye, but it takes merit and brains and intellect to bold the soul. Acting upon this, the queen has cultivated the Intellectual type In herself. She is a d.ictor of medicine. She Is a stu dent of law. She has taken up the study of fine arts and (.aiming, anil she Is a hlt;h class patron of the sports, aotlve Iv engaged In them herself. It w is only a short time ago that the queen rescued two men and a wnmuti from drowning. She believes In outdoor exercise, and she goes every summer to the coast, where she has a charming though unpretentious summer palace. While here it is her custom to slip away and go In toe surf, and so quietly does she go that many limes she ia actually unat Knded. One day last summer the queen had h headache. At there wyis to be a state function In the evening she deter mined to rid hers If of this aching head. " I do not want my eyes to look heavy," sh said to a lady in waiting. So away she trippd to the surf, which was rolling heavily, and plungvd In. A little way nut a skiff was struggling with the breakers. And. to the horror of the queen, it overturned and all began to sink. " They are ex- a Are which will not burn for them." One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman, w are told, is to cause regret, but It U written on another page that " Rejected lovers need never diispair. There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four p which a woman may not change her mind." Men, said Victor Hugo, are women's playthings, women the devil's; and It was soraobody we du not know who said that " women know a point more than the devil." Life, said Addison, is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in, and the poet would perhaps have fathered this saying: "A coquette Is a woman who places her honor In a lottery; ninety-nine chances to one that she wlU lose It" When Women Cry. "Between a woman's yes and no," Cervantes said, I would not venture to stick a pin," and there have been many of the world's great men who have disbelieved in the serious side of women. Often enough In this book they are treated as children or as villains. " When women oanuot be re vengcil," it is said, " they do as children do they cry," and one remembers that Oeoriie Kllot tuld of one of be chuui rers: " I dure say she's like the rest of the women thinks two and two'!! come to make five, if she cries and bothers enough about it." And It is probably as true as It is brief that "tears are J "Z ,Jiollcr type of bausteil." B;ild the i(iiun. Ami without a thought of sel' sliu swHin out. KticcHKilIng in lirlnjrlnir In the cMl.til hum, with all cllnghiK to It, KiiiiiiiK liirm ut)v watvr until ttic lllc-iii vc rs could coiiif. For this alio rtoolvrd, a lifts. ii s mtiilui. n how Marvelous Beauty h Preserved. lit re ai s ni" ot the mottot'S of the queen: Ivuvi i nt ui iloors all you ran. Hr.athe outdoor air; live In it, revel In it. Don't shut ftursflf up. Huild your In mis. s so that your air supply Is good. Thro away our portii n-s and hiie-a-hrao. fon't have usilf-ss tilflis ;i round. Have a favorite form of extrclse find make the most of it. Kido horstbark If. you can; cycle If you cumt k t a horm-; motor If you will; do gomi thlnt?; anything to get out In the open air. Interest yourself in p o'df. Don't let joi.r brains grow tired. If you ran t do anything else, count th llaHtnnes. Keep your yray matter on the move. New let the proces sion get ahiad of you. Don't grt fut. Fat Is an overcoat which o-ereats you Fat Is an incubus which weighs you down. Km lb tie sign of overindulgence. Fat mnkes you old and ugly. Fat I'ens you from being lithe, young, and blooming. Don't overeat. Drink little, and let It be pure. Don't try to dress too much. The woman who waf her time making her clothing will surely repent it. Press II only a framework, after all; only a drapery to set off a wom an's charms. Yet. dress as well as ynu are able. Spend not your lis' dollar, but the next to yotir last, upon dress. !t1 tMng make yourself lovely. Authority on Art of Swetf Sceuts. Scent yourself sweetly. Sweet herbs wire rhosi'D In the religious rit8 of the bible, and there nre cv.rl.tin countries which still worship by burning sweet splets upon the altars The swinging Incense Is as acceptable to the ord todav a j it ever was. Scent your homes, spice your rooms, let your clothing be redolent with sweet srmlls. Never forget that a sweet, welcoming perfume Is one of the most grateful things about a woman. Then? is a certain charm that radiates from a per ron who is sweetly scented. The queen, like many of the Portuguese women, makes a specialty of the odors of her toilet table. Indeed, she spends large amounts tvtjy ycur providing her dressing table with pewdi rs. essi nc s. and txtracts that will perfume the at mosphere nnd sctnt her cl .thing. ; The wonun ol Portugil are famous for the sweet scents tf their lim n mid t ielr silks. If you purchase a yard of silk in Portugal yon will be sure to find It heavily scented wfWi some sweet odor, pleasant to the nostrils. Thi-re are fine odors worked Into the products of the looms, and the silks, as (1 on as they are made are packed and shipped In cases o. scented woods. At great expense the women of Portugal obtain chests ol sandalwood, all heavily carved, bo that the surface Is fretted to allow the odors to escape. And they hiive scented pine and sweet woods from India. To step Into the houdolr of a woman of Portugal Is to enter an atmosphere heavily laden with spices that are Invigorating and gloom destroy ing. This Is one of Portugal's greatest beauty secrets. The womin are healthy and their homes need no disinfectants. 1 erfumi s abound, and, In place of the awful smelling stuffs which are used In American homes to drive away germs, the Portuguese use herbs and spices that are a positive luxury. the strength of women." Yet there are serious women In the world who are not unlovely, and we like to think that this sweet spying is not true of one age of woman only: " It was woman who was lust at the cross and tirwt at the grave." " They govern the world, these sweet lipped women," 1 said the Autocrat, and It was anothi r maker of pretty phrases who said: "There are only two beautiful things in the world women and roses; and only two sweet things womeo and melons." Yet we read again that "Woman Is the crime ot man.' She has been his crime since Kdeii. She wears on her flesh the trace of six thousand yiars of Injustice." And following close upon the axiom that " the test of civilisation la the estimate of woman." is this: " Woman among salvages is a beajtt of biirdeii; In Asia she Is a piece of furniture; In Europe she is a spoiled chiKl." if It is true, it Is surely woman's fault that It Is true. No power In the world can be compared unto hers. "In all eras and all climes." Ouida has written, " a woman of great beauty has done what she chose." and It Is still true that the true woman cun do what she will. But she must be, said Oliver Weudoll Holmes, as true as death: "At the first real Ue that works from the heart outward, she should be ten derly chloroformed Into a tx Iter world." If all our women were so true, It would be superfluous to say, with one of the' great minds quoted here: " I have only one advice to give you fall in love with all women."