Woman’s Judgment of Woman.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 4

Woman’s Judgment of Woman.

It seems to me quite proper that a man with a keen sense of the beautiful, as developed in form and colour, should, be the autocrat in the world of fashion ; for, after all, but few women know their best points. It was men who wrote up, centuries ago, the beautiful Athenian woman. It was Ovid who wrote the thousand coquetries. Even the famous * Book of Beauty ’ that Cleopatra posessel was written by her physician. A woman appreciates the frou-frou of a silk gown ; a man notes the lithenesa of the figure under it, the way its folds cling to it as Bho walks and the charms of the woman herself- A woman’s opinion of another Is apt to be that of the Greeks. The one looks for the beauty of the newspaper, of the boulevard, of the photograph shop; the other looks for the shape, the white skin, the clear eye, the distinot woman,, before whom the worshippers of beauty fell down so many hundred years ago.