THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 28, 1909.
N D ISC O V ERE
B E A UT. I E S
The
Russian-American
Beauty
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Her Horoscope.
By Minerva Meares. J
This Russian-
American beauty J
-was born August 17, T
-which gives her a
"nature adaptable to
many ainerem. j
tions or me. xn y""'
she will have strong
religious '. aspirations
tend, tendencies, wjiv. ,
these fade -with the
X years, nd she -will X
I become cynical and
pessimistic. She -will J
? be a good mimic and x
be capable in many
J -ways. She -will -want
t her lif active and r
T filled, with color, and
f it will "be -changeable.
f There will be love
othome, but this will f
Jind ...channels that
will lead the interest $
'outrof , domestic
spheres.. . TUis nature
is very .buoyant- and X
happy,'' rebounding S
quickly, from" disap-
pointmerit and seem- X
ing defeat,, and she J
will be exacting in .
the demand that af- T
j fection be shown and f
not merely implied.' 5
t- There is good exec- T
utive ability, but be- ?
cause the nature is
X fiery and restive un- $
i der criticism and 2
i restraint conditions 2
i will not always be ?
i harmonious. $
"While she will be X
: ? sympathetic she will $
, T want things done as i
" j she prefers, and will
', T lose interest very
f quickly in matters if X
fher ideas are ques-
Honed or opposed. ?
. ' She will be intelli-
; $. gent and tactful gen- s
X erally in handling
" f people, and have a
.' 4, certain popularity x
X for that reason, but t
i, the nativity shows
;: many warring traits t
a n d characteristics,
governed as it is by S
? the emotional sign of
teo. As the sign is $
: from the heart of the
solar nature, it makes &
reciprocal centre for
all the forces of hu
manity. Consequently she
: will be apt to be led.
X and not always led ?
i wisaW s-t Vc"k
J fessing friendship. ?
- And in this wnv tho
$ emotional temncra- ?
ment will h T-rv-.rs ?
to go to extremes.
She will be clever
with her hands, and
will have excellent
taste in her ideas of
dress, and surround- &
ings. This nativity
seldom makes high
m.iaiinenia in life
though planetary in- S
fluences will some- Z
times aid in making X
the life successful. X
Marriage should be i
with one born be- t
tween March 17 and t
April 19, or between t
November 22 and De- f
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I Reward of I
I Beauty.
pERHAPS there is f
A no more frequent- f
ly quoted phrase
in the English lan-
t ua9e than "A thing
of beauty is a joy fop
r ever." .. T
X - use it x
xacetious- $
J ly, meaninglessly.
" is quoted by the f
""fledged literary $
'"teur, by the idle
chatterer, who has
Picked it up fPom
some other chatter-
er; even the enter- f
Prising advertiser $
makes it his own to f
extol a brand of f
cigars or a style of f
furniture. f
In fact, the poor I
I phrase has been so
t mistreated and so f
abused that it has t
J passed into the realm t
of the banal.
Yet there is. a
"wealth of meaning I
3 in these words for
f each and every one f
of us. The vision of
I beauty which we f
make our own may
. be always our own.
In the fraction of a I
$ second we can call 1
memories of i
X scenes and imaaes
Z long since vanished
4 from our actual
world. j
$ One of the English $
poets who loved $
beauty with all the 1:
strength of a deeply J
f spiritual nature i
found beauty in the
common things of $
daily life. Once he 5
? saw "a host of golden
1 daffodils," and to
4 him that glimpse of
? beauty was eternal.
t In speaking of this
vision he said:
"They flash upon
that inward eye 4
$ which is the bliss of &
t solitude."
These words have $
y message for us.
fWe can, if we will
but try, look for the X
T beautiful here, there, $
2 everywhere around $
us, and so fill our $
--nds that these re-
X membered images
4 may flash into our
memory and be a $
joy to us.
HAT an unusually striking girl!" ' The
ejaculation came from one of two men
standing upon the crowded corner await
ing a chance to cross the street. His
companion looked up.
Coming directly toward them, evidently also des
tined for the opposite corner, was a tall, graceful
figure, a brilliant combination of purple velvet and
ermine. The second man surveyed it placidly, but
with distinct approval.
"She certainly Is a stunner," he assented carelessly.
The well poised head under the ermine hat grew a
trifle more erect, the curved Hps closed.
Not Altogether Disagreeable.
"She heard you," said the first man. But the Bgure
in purple velvet gave no further sign. She is quite
, accustomed to overhearing remarks of a similar na
ture. They are not altogether disagreeable things
to hear, although they make her uneasy for the mo
ment" The purple velvet and ermine add to them,
she knows, but she looks down at her white muff
and strokes the delicate fur she loves them. She
. Is going to have them; she has earned the right to
wear what she pleases!
; "Even the sternest critic would not gainsay her. The
' purple velvet and ermine are acquisitions of recent
HER STRUGGLE FO R S U C C E S S
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date. The glorious masses of red gold hair, the large
brown eyes, the full scarlet lips these have always
been hers; they marked her as a beautiful child when
she crossed In the steerage with her parents on that
terrible Journey from Russia twenty years ago.
Beautiful as a Child.
She was three years old then, and the wonder and dis
comfort of the voyage form her first definite memory.
She remembers, too, that some ladies in the saloon,
seeing her, sent for her and her mother. And they too,
had admired the long braids of wavy hair, which even
then were remarkable, and the clear skin and great
eyes. And they had prophesied great things for her
and had given her mother money.
It seemed at first as if the great things could not
possibly come. Often there was not enough to eat
and she went with her pail for soup to the free kitchen
where they filled it for you once daily. By and by
she went to school; she liked that. She passed easily
to the head of her classes. From an unnoticed mem
ber she became an object of envy. Her soul was
elated.
But this was not for long. One da - she appeared
In a new frock. A schoolmate asked her where it
was bought. Innocently she replied:
"My mother does not buy clothes, 6 he gets-them
by the mission." - And she had sealed her doom.
"Charity clothes," - the schoolmate retorted, with
curling lip.
Caste in Dress.
That night she cast the frock from her in a passion
of weeping.
"Idon't want it," she stormed. "I won't wear it.
You must buy my clothes by the store, not get them
from the mission." -
"Wliat?" asked her mother, sharply. And she had
reiterated the . statement, stamping her . small foot
And then her father had whipped her with the strap
hanging on the wall until there were great welts on
her white shoulders, and at last, very miserable, she
crept upon her mattress, undaunted, ' muttering be
tween her teeth: "111 show 'em."
It became the dominating motive of her life. She
would show them. She could get the first seat in the
first row; she would get other things, too. - - Her small
being was daily torn by a conflict of passions not
pleasant to look upon in a child of tender years. But
' somehow it helped her.
It helped her to stand the meagre fare, the hard
blows, that were her daily portion. It became her
religion; she would show that she could look as the.
best-o them.
There were few child labor laws to stop her when
at ten she left school and obtained her first Job. She
came home and told her mother with pride. She was
stringing beads In a glass factory at ten cents a day.
That meant sixty cents a week; she could in two
weeks get a new frock. .
Strangely enough, when she got it on, the worn, dis
carded garment of some child One step higher in the
social scale, she did not .like it. Her ambition had
progressed. Not only did she want bought frocks, but
nice ones as well. .
She got them. It is a long story from the first
ninety cent frock to the ermine and purple velvet
She went to night'schooL She progressed from the
glass factory to a paper box factory, then to a candy
factory. She studied hard. ' She passed the grammar
classes and entered the night high school: There she
learned stenography.
- Nights of Study.
Then she did a courageous thing. - She left the fac
tory where she was making $12 a week and started
as a stenographer at $6. .- She was then seventeen
years old. ; - :
' : Night after night she continued her studies. In
the course of time she left the night high-school and
entered the evening law school for women. Her -salary
steadily increased. Then she opened a public
stenographer's office, and her earnings increased to
$40 a week.
She has succeeded in her purpose. The ermine
and purple velvet are the response to the cry of the
child:
"I won't wear it! I won't!" But now, strangely
enough, have arisen other ambitions which even the
purple velvet will not help. She Is very much alone.
She works all day In her office; she studies two nights
a week at the law school; she has never had time to
make friends.
Means to an End.
i
She has taken her studies as means to an end to
money. In themselves they mean nothing to her.
Even the admiring looks that follow her superb young
beauty, as she goes, fail to satisfy. She has missed
something, she knows not what
There are those who claim that the love of dress
is vanity alone. There are women on the avenue
upon which she walks who smile with arched brows
at the brilliant purple and white. And yet some
times, it is the key to better things. Out of the purple
and ermine there may arise a souL