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THE OREGON SUNDAY; JOURNAL, PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY ' 24, 1909
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I . ,' I I v : -J I bodies the purest and most chaste Greek type of f i , ! f
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f " ' !. 1 0 .'", ' ' lg A small face It in. perfectly oval, the brow 16w. f ipVvi;5V-o I
I ? ; ', ," ' - ' ''t - - ''2 " the lips beautifully arched, the nose fine, sensitive I 5 fi.'1.;;:.s. -.V - ' . - t .
I 1 V . "r ."'"; A - J and purely Grecian The face embodies beauty in I " 0 : , ' ? ' I
J gP, ' r V l Its perfection, unstirred by passion. Such, we are I '', J If
I ifTr' 'lit " ' V 'ff led to believe, was the type- of many of the fairest I 11 J ...-ivV. f ,
I f,1i ' " Vr ' - HI .- women of thai arly period. Ill jA-& A f
i , U'i . 3 rr,w"' ' - ' : - V " V"' l7 e are to judge by the Greek statues and the 111 ' ' t' ' ' X
1 I VV" 4 . i", ' " " V V' f'! Impel foa ena.nrls and paintings of the Romans. 7. 7 , ' , 1 v ' V"-
t? VvT ' . rt ' rVv 1 ' T,i v' Afl'i the beauties of the Capitol of Caesar did not com- f " " ?, -x " o v a V -
fxHi; r yxfl .'' J 4 - k 1 V - . jTl f f Pare favorably with those of Greece The most ar- V -' i ! ' ' ! ? f
SVZA J H 1 A ' " "';' '! S'Jyf. dent ldeall8t coulJ lardly;enthase about the paint- ! ,S -''T ;
iZyjix "Wv5riVAr -'"i:'''i--'w7 of.taan wy tajini,myCai.in ' :'.;v-. t. ''. ,'t; f
V' sV 'VV"-' ''".'V ' 5.' I'1 Ju'lK'nK by thls-aithouKh such Judgment -? i', ' - V V 'T ' f" -in X' '
4fr. "Vs-i s'l I V . ' . " " V be unfair-beauty ' could not have improved ' ' , : Kf - '
X I0!' IV V; H -'i,-V",V tt-" nrff Her 'na"cr f ores.IB, her hair is like that f; t 4" i-St YAxZ
A' I' ' I.a V"' f H- ') ; r IS :ttS f adopted by women of our ... flm. Tf .k. Vv - ' W ff
If .iftI V-.ff ' - t ' yy., ard her nose too sharp. A reader of character will XXJ ' S N. " J J .
Jt mVi ' . V; ;j i' ee In her a woman who probably enjoyed life, who ' : XNfr!? '' i"' ' jTOJei
Pf t lVld XVSt ? - ; - l 0 loved a little gossip, and by no means lacked tem- NI;-' VV ' , - rZ
tI Ci Stj00ZrftA y2,-,AT P"- Th'a ,Pe f bfauty' whlch Prevailed in Rome 'CS55? - ,-. ' ' 'i ' " -3WP
A I irVJ ' "S. &aCY and Pompeii. Is undistinguished save by its unat- - ' " ' SSSSSSSST--
rsl lei 11 w. rri: jtz r tracvness. , .
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yzzS of
THE RESTOREt) CLEOPATRA
Compare the
with the warm.
EGARDING the op-, Women's beauty lias been. perennial.
posite sex, a . uit, It comes into being with her birth and
more clever than 1 1 riorifies most of the sears of her life. I n
true, once said: " The most beautiful xvomen .all times. there Jiave been fair women, and
are those that have never lived." r all periods some' tttore noted than the
rrom me early days when Adam was : rest. '
charmed by the glamour of hft fair com
panion, mankind has been given to extoll
ing and idealizing the 'Ibeauty. of , women.
Long before Homer wrote-did poets com
pare women's eyes to twin stars,. her cheeks
to rose petals and her lips to pomegranates;
hng before .Helen of Troy inspired men to
wur did women wield , the potent', charm
that has made history',
rather shrunken , Roman v.o.,,t .-
radiant loveliness of that nnn
of Egypt who loved Mark Antony. Lately there
have come audacious ones who claim that Cleo
patra was not beautiful; they have ungallantly de
clared that her skin was dusky and that her fea
tures were negroid. , - "
Alma-Tadema, who made' a study lot the bai-IM "
has restored the Cleopatra of tradition-a woman ''
magnificently made, with foil, lovely face dark
flashing- eyes, and a wealth of dark hair. Her ;
are slumbrous, but there are smoldering Ores- Jh '
fascinate, too, much as do those of a snake Sh i
latilrA Tlit. i . i -
time, who compares strikingly. with the clasile Ideal . loved la France. But it is a gentle face, lovely an
of old Greece. , Beautiful.! surely' but the Duchees mUd.1;' More beautiful, than Marie Antoinette T That
Jean's face does not possess, thaf "immobile, flne depends upon taste,, '
chiseled beauty of tfie" Greeks.. Therells soroething' . Compare -wlth Mrs. Langtry the radiant and
oriental, too, In her face. In her dark hair and dark regal beauty of Lady Pole-Caraw. one of the -most
eyea KK geptle 'spontaneity; a , Sod' hiJngLiv-these jf ; noted of living women. Here one sees an outline
are expressed in her countenance. T A approaching the cold perfection of Greece; hut It
tsut take. ror: instance, anotner teauty ot about - J a face enlivened by Interest In things, with
. :. W. V""", ' latent- fierceness of her nature. This Tis.the Cleona
whether .women are more beautiful today ' r we hY? 'l'? mnd whoembodies the aerce
a r , ' . J - beauty of the barbariO' age. ' . .
than ever.bejoreT 'Loes tne modern beauty ,
comparc'with Cleopdtra 'and Troy's Helen? f
this time Marie Antoinette was regarded as one
of the -roost beautiful women of the continent. ' The;
patrician face, the noble brow,, the classic sugges- .
tlon these mark her as a supreme type of beauty
then regarded most nearly the perfect.; ;.
Compare the other beautiful women of 'history '
Diana -de-Poitiers. Nell Gwynne. the countess of '-'
Gramont. Lady Hamilton, the duchess of . Devon-i
shire and try if you can to select -the -most beau
tiful. ' To the man who loved her. "Mona Lisa was :
dououess regaraea as anomer Heieo. Lucretle Bur-
o
T THAT perfect beauty of ancient Greece we
nave heard ana even seen in the "work of
ancient 'artists. , Car-ed in marble the stern
and .coldly beautiful face of the Venus of
- . . Milo rases from her "ancient time. We have
. also .the wonderful Lemnian Athena, which Lucien
pronounced the best. work of Phidas. and which. em-
. Ditrre8t ttmes, too, have produced various
cepted .types. Observ, for instance, the dueb.es. "
Gordon who was one of the leading beauties of hr
time. Slr Joshua Reynolds painted the brilliant
aucneM as arrayeajn a epanish costume. ; which t 'do you -believe they have. grpn more perfect hi
women were
charming woman dressed less affectedly than her
fla was doubtless me, most radiant woman ever
orn to the men, who .loved her and whom she -poisoned.---
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DUl corainrwg in. nunun oeaunes or nistory.
..j .........iul, . . .. lovollnesi
picture was pamtea in 1774 or 1 77 S., when Mrs Lily Langtry was conceded as among the most
wc' n..aui arm This beautiful living women
sisters and was marked at the time for her dellmrv
of appearance. . . .
Here Is a woman, the- accepted - beauty of hef
Her fame snread ovrr ui
JW1HBS ueusiuou. t.u fiuiiur . . . i 4
wnrlfl.
See her picture at that time. Iter face is leant...
bile, placid; her eyes are large and gray. Htr fire
is rather large; It rs not the petite face once so'
eyes, a suarsrestlon of tha ntim.nril
Would LftdT Pf)l-r'.iirw ha Hi.H7-rf ninra tmtr
imn Lieopaira: eianaaras ox beauty vary, sour
- eyes may. see. in a different light a picture regarded
dissimilarly, by a' friend.- Mark these flowers ef
- womanhood and decide. -But may it not be. as aa
English writer expressed it: -
t- JThese beautiful women re wrought of Beauty,
Ideal Lore,; Immortality. Their garments are lovely
words, their voice is .music, the light upon their
. faces is the morning glory of imagination.
"These Fair Women kre the Daughter of the
Soul- of Man-by the-Beauty of the World, whom he
calls Kemlna. They are Immortal, for even if in the
passage of years, or through accident, they fade In .
the memories of mankind, they live again in the
ever new and beautiful births which are the off
, spring of -this divine marriage. '
"Time.-however cannot touch their pictured
loveliness.- .They are limned. os a canvas beyond
the iterb of the moth. Thev are in the mind of
men aa the Innumerable stars are in the. firma
ment." ... . . ' -.. - - , v .'..-'