Women Must be Weeping.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 264, 13 May 1896, Page 2

Women Must be Weeping.

— ♦ A capacity for tears — abnndant, warm and ready ones — is, said a physician, one of the surest preservatives of feminine beauty. They are the natural oat* let of emotion, a sort of liquid ligntningrods by which excitement and passion are most easily and rapidly dissipated. Sweet Alice, in the ballad, who wept at a frown, retained until late in her career unfurrowed brows, dimpled lips, shining eyes, and eyes so brown. So do nearly all weeping women who can let rivers of hot, salt tears course down their cheeks* It is she who keeps up a power of thinking who has few tears to shed, and those flow with an effort, whose facial lines . and grey hairs come early. A capacity for tears, says ' Cassell's,' is worth cultivating, since not only does a lack of them score heavily against ones fresh* ness of face, but has its marked effect in general temperament. The women who weep easily have correspondingly light hearts, tender, demonstrative, and impulsive ways, and a charm the dry-eyed tunmart 10/%lr