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Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 49

Beauty Midway Between Two Uglikisisses.

EASTERN AND WESTERN IDEALS.

/IIITFE,” says Aristotle, "is a mean * between two vices.” Thus generosity is a mean between foolish extravagance and ava.ice; modesty a mean between prudishness and wantonness ; a good comedy a mean between a revue and a propagandist play. I suppose the reverse is true —i. 0., that a vice is a mean between two virtues. But there i? probably something wrong in the assumption. Like the converse of “All cabbages are vegetables,” which is “All vegetables are cabbages,” and which landed one in a logical muddle in one's schooldays. The axiom holds goods when applied to beauty ; a beautiful figure is the mean between the ugly extremes of leanness and obesity. A beautiful face has neither too much nor too little hair upon it—crudely, in a woman, the eyebrows and lashes are luxuriant, yet no downy growth blurs the outline of cheek and upper lip. Our convention which demands that, women should have long eyelashes but no moustaches would probably seem curious to certain savages who shave eyebrows and lashes, and admire moustaches in women, just as our partiality for white teeth would astonish the Hottentots who prefer them black or yellow ! In Europe, however, and among tin civilised Eastern races, the beauty that long curling eyelashes and delicately marked brows cannot be over-estimated. Wliat, glorious lashes one sees in the East: especially among the Greek ends in tie native quarter of Cairo. The tendency among such beauties to grow superfluous

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