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Title: Beauty of form and grace of vesture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Steele, Frances Mary Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele
Subjects: Beauty, Personal Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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and love.True, because beauty, ideal beauty, presupposesthe charm of an attractive presence, fine propor-tion, perfect physical condition, intelligence, andmoral excellence. If young girls, content with youthfulness, forgetits brevity and foolishly ignore the means of pre-serving its beauty, none are irresponsive to thethought of enhancing that charm. No womananywhere but desires to look well in the eyes ofothers; no one but would be glad to look betterin the eyes of those she loves, and best in the eyesof one who loves her. This desire for beauty, being natural and univer-sal, must have been put in all wisdom into theconstitution of a womans mind. It was a blessed doctrine taught in a Friendsyearly meeting, — God meant women to makethe world beautiful, as much as flowers and birdsand butterflies. An artist said of a friend, She accomplishes byher presence alone, all I try to do with my art.A sweet woman is above all works of art. If awoman captures the imagination or wins the love
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Pig. 2. — (^ueeu Louise. BEAUTY OF FORM. 13 of those around her, she may accomphsh whatshe will of blessing. It is said that public talking is the mostinfluential of modern efforts. But a really beau-tiful woman leads and conquers without eventalking; the rudest person is conscious of herpower. Charm of form, of colour, of soul, are essentialto our conception of ideal human beauty. Areverent spirit, a loving heart, a sound mind, abeautiful body, — these are to be desired, pursued,won. It is true that many saintly souls abide in awk-ward forms, and are covered with most distaste-ful arrangements of woollen, silk, and cotton; butsuch dwelling-place puts them at a disadvantage.In well-proportioned, graceful bodies, becominglyclad, their influence for good would be augmented.Every one who adds beauty to goodness makesgoodness doubly dear. It would seem to be the duty of the mother ofchildren, especially of sons, to dress well and lookher best. She should be ideally beautiful to them,a

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