For the Ladies.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 66, 14 October 1875, Page 7

For the Ladies.

*317 -. r : -6»OT^ f 7,77 wv*« .-.Q ne . day/(It was* presiding 7ab' ]the distributionjof prized in the;:l'mpeiial ; School df'-desigri \ and. ; speaking; in .the name of the Minister, s6me surprise was excited by my expressing this idea—a truth before ther drawing rectified l character, that the7 love' :■ of correctliries -makes trie's path in- life more straight and serious* To support thi.s statement I said that neither the galleys nor the prisons had ever rebeivedf a r designer. '■ The child who is already taking, hisfirsl: lessons in the; beautiful and good j . arid. the fragriients of the masterpieces which he has urider his eye teach hirii not only to imitate -the.t%e.autifulj 'but 1 to make himself beautiful.

. Mademoiselle Rachel told mc . one day, at the Due de Morny'» where I was speaking of her' beauty, "You don't imagine-—all of you whp think mc beautiful ugly I was,at the beginning. ; I, who was to play tragedy, had, a "comic mask,' I was luaghable, -with-my~ horned, forehead,- my rioselike'a-ttomma, niy.pointedi eyes, my :: gririning <mouth. You pari supply the-rest - I- was once taken by my father to tbe' Louvre, f; did riot care- much for the pictures, ;although he called riiy atterition to the; tragic scenes of } David. But when I came among: thp marbles a change came over mc like a revelationi - I saw how fine it was to be beautiful. I went out from there taller than before, with a borrowed dignity which I was to turn into a natural grace.,.. The next day I looked over; a.i collection of engravings after the antique. I never received 1 a lesson' so advantageous at the- Conservatoire. • If I have ever'effectively addressed the eyes of my audience by my attitudes and'expressions I ,'it is l because those masterpiecea-so appealed to my eyes.",. Rachel said this so admirably that we were'all,riibved. by .her .words ; fpr 7 she : ,talked r bettei.7 than anybody, when she chose not to- talkiike a Paris gamin. " I forgot,'" shP Continued, ," I. must-tell you ',that Tf ; I have,become, .beautiful as ,ypu7 say,, though I don't-believe a wordofit;;lt is owing to my daily trying not to be uglier-thari'l am. . I have eliminated w r hat there was of monstrous! in ! my : face. r ' A's-'l was in the .sea,son; of sap vvlieji of making myself over again, afteij the ancestral - rough-draft, ! every thing, with the help of' Prb'yi'dence, went well. The. r knobs -. of- my -forehead Retired, my eyes opened, .my, n.ose grew straight, my thin ..lips". rpundea,,.-my disordered teeth were put .hack' in their .places!" Here .Rachel, smiled^with''that delicate smile which was!- ; sq'eripharitirig.'' ;f''Arid then I spread over«all a: certain air bf .whi'6h"'l' do riot-possess!.'! Slle.'.was s iritprrupfed7by so many, com-' •piimen.fe,-wh'ie.h-.Werj?.the'simple trhth, that she corild.not.continue the story of ,her .imperfection's. ' ? ; <V -Well,'- "she still said,"" fc'he is that I did-riot7-try. to ; be 'beautiful for the sal«ebfsmanias dlher wo'meri fpr.tho -,oC, art, T the !' c.omirierceT'orloye,' as'thp' philosophers it."7 .|Rachaeryas applauded thfat 'sveriirigai"peyer hefore. 7 ''"'Th'erCVqre* no more - 'than 'fifty peisons at M. jde Mprhy's, biit thgy'wPre ? the-tqp of the basket- of ; 'a : ll ;v Pa'ris/ 'a 'parterre' !of dilettanti, which is much better than a parterre!'of kings/ Arid Vet she had not been acting. - • •" r - ••

Look Afterjtbi&Eives.—Multitudes of women have-made their eyes weak for life"by the too free us^'of'eyesight, -doing sewing. In ,view ; : of these things it is well rules in", the useftfthe^eyes4 '* - 1 f \ Avoid aIL. sudden changes between ™*n™*) j Jl - Never read f m- twilight 1 ( cloudy da'^'lA!777l Il ! 7 J v. i N.evec <S.'leep ; -,. §q x £has on waking .the eyes shall open-on the .light" of the T^iridbwr-T".7 -■ I if/Vn-,;;) W* 1 'eyesight by-light so scant that discriminate. in front 6f > theli-ht i oy^wdpw i . 7o<r j ;r^l±^":besti:o--haye r -tbfr 1 df J bbHquefyf jlef? shoulder. j Oil Top -mupbatrght gj&atejf &Bg\ffipj pains and^pofllusesothe 'sight trThe" distinguish, that moment stop and talk, !aeatk,.yii«idß.B*8 .Henna ,bii>riKoO.JJ j As the s&y 9i igablue and the eaijthj memrit jms&£&em 3 sM&.,thft ceiling should be a—bluish tint, the carpet %!s*# 'fn& tW'vmtfWtiotmwidlbffl ifcnt Miffed <t±ej<foiblvthe>i&yes?£that momqnjc ceaseiitoxusej tfteatahca Vai 1 "" If the gyelid^ajjfoglued together 'oh 1 Waking djpr nofe f§r££sy $pen/jthem,i but s -^pply-saliva—with the fin gerund, ihen .ybuP eyee'Wd face IWitlTavarm wa^e 5 ?. xlt«m 3A TJ\ *?.i imgramr ever^t r n & T $pj~Loiidon wmomkizQ ,* and more than-lour- London seasons are Whwk th 6 evil. But th*WjNPW'ffl!»iPtt ih£j tagdogJEW a^dii ß |n«ri^ fi a^ lo£ a^nility r affliction and—the devil gardaally* beP af aelof tfce^qfctenjeof l « J habitue of /the €U ! 00