Beauty And Talent The Former The Best Weapon In The Battle Of Life

All women, even theughest, feel that beauty is a wcapon on their side in the battle of life; like to seo it exert a forcé, aud when it is great, and, so to speak, beyond criticism, admire itwiíh genuino heartiness - heartiness as real as that which men show in their adnairation for Strength manifested in auy conspicuous way. Let any one of the thousand cynics now lounging in London ask himself wliether an English prince who made a mesalliance for money or for beauty would be sooner forgiven, or wliether lili. I I M I Itlcin II JM. j ' II jiwn Mil (II, 11 ll i I i ' ' i one main cause of that popularity with English wonien which outlasted everything but tus surrender. They thought he snould have performed the impossibility of "cutting liis way throngh." To this very hbur thc deep feeling of English women for the French Empresa, though founded, of course, on pity, is greatly assisted by " the recollection among the middle aged of a triumph so conspicuous and so visibly owing to personal charm. This kindoffemale interest is universal, and extends in a more languid degree to the men, who flnd in ary national appreeiation of beauty no only the charms which spring from anj kinship in taste, but an excuse for a secret imbecility, a powerlessness ii presence of the attraction, which they al resent and feel. Wc wonder if, besides all this, there is any residuum of the ole good in itself, a harmonious something which indicated that the dtods of Nature were esscntially and at heart hostile to man. The next Prince who ascends a throne any where will have his praises and qual ities hymned on the Luropean wires but if lie were an Apollo or a Jove the bulletin-makers would ieel instinctively that to say so would be regarded not as adulation, but as ridicule. It is for wnmen to bn beautiful - for men to be dieniíied - the latter credit arising from a different order of ideas, the idea of harmony between place and appearance in "the world. We should doubt if beauty were admired in the abstract very consciously, but that the interest excited by Deautiful women rivals the interest excited by beautiful scenery, and this arnong those who never see either except in pictures, we hare no doubt whatever