The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1902, Page 2

e 8. 8. McClure Co.) sweet, book musln gl wno aftracts The horsey malden, whom he ride hounds with and chaffs with he seldom by the e e e s Amgerican Complexions- English Voiges- Spanish Teeth- talian Rbes, harde, Steady and Profounc--German Tressgs--French Diguanch. The Grace and FasCination of a Russian Maiden--The B¢lle of the Flcwerl Kingdem--The One Girl in the Werld Whe Never TndulGes in Flirting. eomes the beauty of the flashing teeth. These are universally perfect, perhaps because they are not spoiied by cakes and pastry and sweets in childhood. To see a Spanish woman display these perfect rows of pearls when she smiles is a treat. The Spanish girl is also blessed with mag- nificent hair, which is always well dressed. In going into small shops and hurble quarters one often sees the business of hair dressing in progress. One sister is dressing the hair of another, or the mother is arranging the coiffure. They have little heated irons with which they curl one side and the other is allowed to remain smooth. It is always becoming to the face. Little curls around the ears or on temples show that the Spanish girl values the purpose of hair, which is to shade the eye and contrast with the com- plexion. At the back of the head the nuque is always carefu - brushed up. The high comb is now seldom worn, but the hair is always dressed high on the head, a natural crown which any queen might envy. Bentimental Italian beaux for a number of thousand years have sighed inexpressi- ble things over dark eves, large, steady and profound, with a profundity in which a man may sink his heart. The black hair has deep tones of blue in it, the features are regular and the complexion the tinest of all complexions—pure ivo and that which carries with it all the tem- perament in which there is all the sub- tlety of fire. "Fhere are many distinct types of beauty gay and piquant, and usually she has a saucy, tip-tilted nose, wide of nostril, and a large mouth; she is not superlatively lovely in feature, but fascinates by her chic and individuality, for individual she is from the top of her head to the tip of her French feet, which, if one is to believe those tacit verdicts of the sizes in which French shoes run, are quite uni- versally larger than the American. Teutonic approval is for the buxom damsel. Heartily and candidly every German despises leanness in a woman; there is something comforting, solacing and bewitching to him in solid, whole- some avoirdupois. Added to this must be & smooth, pink and white skin, an abun- dance of meatly arranged tresses and a well-turned arm. The fine art of fascinating man by in- finitesimal gestures is not the German maiden’s; she cannot sway feeling by a turn of the head, a curve of the neck or a droop of the figure, although she may have an idea or two about the manage- ment of her eyelids, The little Dutch girl, to please her lover, must have a peach-blow complex- fon and a coquettish arrangement of her flaxen locks with the distinctive cap of her class: Her clear, calm blue eyes are unsuggestive; she has a beautiful neck and her figure is full, but not overfed. Tall and graceful must be a girl of Flan- ders, with blue eyes and hair like bur- nished gold, and simple but becoming toi- let. Neither music, art nor poetry appeals to her, but she is profoundly religious, ‘When one sees her kneeling in the shad- 6ws of an old cathedral she gives an im- pression of a beautiful statue, placed there by the hand of a marvelous ar A grace and fascination all her own be- long to a Russian girl; she knows the value of her glancing eye and the tendril twist of her hair. Behind good looks and refined manners are found the depth and sincerity of the Scotch combined with the wit and humor of the Irish. Marriages in Japan are arranged *by stern parents or officious elder brothers, a girl having but little control over her life and often not seeing her future lord and master until she meets him at the al- tar. There are, however, now and then, love matches. Dark, almond-shaped eyes, black hair and olive complexions make all .Japanese girls appear alike. Their great charm lles in their manner, quiet, re- served, gentle and kindly. The important part of their toflet is the coiffure. The hair is elaborately arranged twice a week, and it must stay fixed until the hairdresser calls again. For fear that the structure will get tumbled down when she is asleep, the Japanese girl dispenses with pillows and sleeps with a wooden rest un- der the back of her neck and the head quite unsupported. Very uncomfortable it must be, but a Japaness girl, like an Naiio American si will do a great deal for the sake of appearances. The be! dom is at le po. than her compiexior her of neither of which ean she ma proud boast k average heig Chinese wom at four feet she trousers and tu % enough, the ant it is possible to pay her she looks but in a Chinese woman is to tel than she is. The one girl in the world who does not understand the art of flirting is she of the Philippine Islands. She is womanly and interesting, extremely graceful, as straight as an arrow and always pictur- esque, but seldom pretty. A girl becom: & young lady at 12 or 13; by 35 she is prob- ably a grandmother, but even at the ad- vanced age of 50 she is still supple and graceful and picturesque. The type of beauty of all the Pacific islands is the same. The skin is yellow or brown, the hair straigh{ and shiny black, the eyes soft and lustrous and the teeth whita The girls are modest to the last degree. No Circassian maiden can be the most perfect of her sex unless she have & beau- tiful skin, eyes like metsors, testh almost 25 dazaling as her eyes, finely arched lips and a charming figure. She must also be gentle in voice and kindly. That she lacks #soul and expression, perhaps, troubles her as little as her lover; it is enough that in resting her fvory-tinted cheek upem her dimpled hand she 5 a vision of loveliness. older An attache of one of the legations In Pek'ng at the time when two continents were In a high stats of tension was a guest at the Army and Navy Club in New York a few evenings since. “I had occa- sion,” he said, “to meet 14 Hung Chang, who, despite the heavy suspense over- hanging his country, seemed to be, to us, painfully cheerful. One of the party present, a man in authority, referred to Li’s merriment. The Interpreter men- tioned it to his master, who requested him to make the most beautiful reply I ever heard. ‘Tell him,’ sald the interpre- s ter, quoting his master, ‘that the Chinese have a proverb which I can commend to all, in all conditions: “You can not pre- vent birds of sorrow flylng over your head; but you can keep them from stop- ping and buflding nests in your hair.” ' I immediately wrote it down, so I know the quotation is ccrrect.”—Leslie’'s Weekly. in Italy. For mple, in Milan, the women are gloriously, maddeningly beau- tiful; they are a mixture of the French gentry and the old ItaLan nobility, and ipherit the vivacity of one country and the voluptuous, half Orieptal beauty of the other. The women of Naples have a soft, smil- ing alr, with the calm, assured, unques- tioning beauty ot the flesh. They are con- tent to let you see in them that reasonable nearness to the animal which no Italian woman is ashamed t> acknowledge. For Italians, they are tall, and though one sees none of the trim Neapolitan walsts, it is rarely that one sces, even among the market women, those square and lumpich figures which roll so comfortably through Venice. For ages the Frenchman has been jot- ting down verses, using up pounds of paint and scuipturing innumerable white marble figures to prove that the fairness of his lady love lies in a te neck and the Venus nuque, the very sight of which fills a Frenchman with a despair of joy. He would no more write a heroine down In one of his vellow-backed novels with- out mentioning these beauties than he would forbear to dilate upon the fact that just at the base of her throat lies a big dimple. This he calls “Diana’s pool,” 2 snowy hollow few but French women ever possess. Then the maiden must be