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adores blondes and vice versa. The tall Diana will
be criticised by the lover of the "pocket Venus." Let
either woman, however, add mental charm and
tact (of all things, tact, which is the result of kindness
and breeding), and she may have the world at her feet.
I do not believe a half dozen authentic cases can
be found in history where droll and ignorant beauties
maintained a long reign in the world of fashion.
Beauty attracts, but it must be supplemented by
other qualities to hold more than one infatuated man
--- and even that rarely occurs.
Every day we may observe beautiful women neglected for plainer ones, who know how to amuse and
entertain men.
If we carefully study the lives of the beautiful and
brainless women of every era, we will find they were
never permanent rulers. They were compelled to
seek new audiences constantly, and their lovers left
them for other charmers. This is not true of the mentally endowed beauty. In the career of Mlle. de
L'Enclos, which lasted until her eightieth year, it is
said only one of her many admirers ever wearied of
her, so completely was she skilled in the art of fascination, which means simply the ability to entertain.
I hope Mr. Prevost's idea that men have ceased to
demand beauty in women will never be exemplified
by fact.
I do not believe it will. Never were women so
wisely prepared to combat time and his train of petty
persecutors, care, and worry, and disease, as now.
Science and specialists are teaching them how to
preserve complexion and form into old age.
The New Thought Science is teaching them how
to illuminate features by expression --- the expression
