LADY NOVELIST ON BEAUTY.
The San Francisco "Call" is holding a beauty competition, and Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, tho novelist, has given the editor the following opinion on tho subject of women's beauty;—" The man always 6ets the standard as to what is beautiful' in the 'woman. Centuries ago men. gauged feminino beauty from a purely physical point of view. In those days beauty .was only skin deep. Nowadays men are looking deeper than the surface for the beauty that makes a woman attractive and lovable. Often a .beautiful faco is ugly because behind the mask of regular features and pretty skin ; there is no quality of soul or intellect! The woman of to-day, in order to be considered beautiful, must cultivate her mind and her soul. Mere beauty of feature and quality of colour don't •amount tea row of pins in these times. A beautiful soul must shine,through the eyes before a woman can lay claim to beauty; The silly, foolish, shallow pated doll faco is becoming a thing of the past. Men aro looking for companions nowadays, not toys, and the consequence is that they are looking deeper than the skin."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 2
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192LADY NOVELIST ON BEAUTY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 2
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