What Is Loveliness?
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Title
What Is Loveliness?
Subject
Inner Beauty
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
May 1876
Contributor
Jennifer Schrauth, Britt Hoskins
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Article
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.7 (May 1876), p.3
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It is not in pearl powder, nor in golden hair dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot be got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant to he handsome; but all beauty is not prettiness. There is a higher beauty that makes us love people tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair or skin, never did that yet; though it is pleasing to see fine features. What you are will make your face ever for you in the end, whether nature has made it plain or pretty. Good people are never ill-looking. Whatever their faces may be, an amiable expression atones for all. If they can be cheerful also, no one will love them the less because their features are not regular, or because they are too fat, thin, too pale, or too dark.
Cultivation of the mind adds another charm to their faces, and, on the whole, if any girl is desirous of being liked by the many and loved by the one, it is more in her power than she may believe to accomplish that object. Cosmetics will not accomplish it, however. Neither will fine dress; though a woman who does not dress becomingly wrongs herself. Forced smiles and affected amiability will be of no avail; but if she can manage to feel kindly to everbody, not to be jealous, not to be cross, to be happy it possible, and to encourage contentment, then something will come into her face that will outlast youth's roses, and gain her not only a husband but a life-long lover.
Cultivation of the mind adds another charm to their faces, and, on the whole, if any girl is desirous of being liked by the many and loved by the one, it is more in her power than she may believe to accomplish that object. Cosmetics will not accomplish it, however. Neither will fine dress; though a woman who does not dress becomingly wrongs herself. Forced smiles and affected amiability will be of no avail; but if she can manage to feel kindly to everbody, not to be jealous, not to be cross, to be happy it possible, and to encourage contentment, then something will come into her face that will outlast youth's roses, and gain her not only a husband but a life-long lover.