THE CHARMS OF WOMANLY MODESTY.
Man loves the mysterious. A cloudless sky and an unblown rose leaves him unmoved ; but the violet which hides its blushing beauty behind the bush, and the moon when emerging from behind a cloud are to him a, source of inspiration and of pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figure in painting—it gives boldness and prominence. Nothing adds more to female beauty than modesty. It sheds around the countenance a halo of light which is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given the rosy liue which tinges the cup of the white rose the name of the ' maiden's bjush.' This pure and delicate hue is the only paint Christian virtue should use. It is the richest ornament. A woman without modesty is like a faded flower, diffusing an unwholesome cdor, which the prudent gardener will throw from him. Her destiny is melancholy, for it terminates in pain and repentance. Beauty passes like the flowers of the albe, which bloom and die in a few hours ; but modesty gives the female charms which supply the place of the transitory freshness of youth.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 936, 11 April 1882, Page 3
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188THE CHARMS OF WOMANLY MODESTY. Temuka Leader, Issue 936, 11 April 1882, Page 3
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