GREAT SOCIAL BEAUTIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 447, 19 February 1890, Page 3

GREAT SOCIAL BEAUTIES.

Are They- Almost Ale Bred Outside The Great Cities ? The great beauties who take the social prizes in marriage, says a London letter in the ‘Ladies Home Journal,’ are almost all bred in the lesser towns, where a less conventional society gives women a snatch at freedom in girlhood. You don’t find them growing up with calisthenics, health lifts and a massageuse to do their exercise for them. You will remember the painful story of a girl in a city home, surrounded by every care, who was strangled in the cords of her “ health pull” one evening, little more than a year since. Scarcely more pitiful is her fate than that of girls brought up to depend on such substitute for work and exercise if they live. A’sick amende woman, unused, unable to care for herself or others, is the most pitiable, repugnant object in creation. You seldom find a lasting beauty which has not had a semi-Greek education of outdoor life and exercise behind it. Take the beautiful Gunnings, who ran wild in their Irish country home till their calculating mamma had raked and scraped enough to take them to Dublin and thence to London. The Gunnings were unlicensed hoydens, but their races over the hills gave them matchless complexions. Later still Mrs Langtry took her beauty course, roving the Jersey lanes with her brothers in soft, pure sea air, living on peaches and course bread, with just as little of lessons as sufficed to fit her for London drawing-rooms.