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be it remarked, determined they could not settle the knotty 

 question, and selected the handsome and ill-fated mortal Paris 

 to exercise his judgment upon it. Inspired by youthful rashness 

 and vanity, he accepted the questionable honour, and decided 

 in favour of Venus, to the exclusion of Juno and Minerva, which 

 two mortified goddesses were henceforth his implacable foes, and 

 worked his overthrow and through him the ruin of his country, 

 the ancient Troy. I am no Paris, so I wont sit in judgment, 

 but only content myself with some general observations, " the 

 bearings of which," on the well-established authority of Captain 

 Bunsby, " lays in the appUcation on it." 



Is Man or WoaiAN the more perfect Type of Beauty? 

 Some male men have made the so-called discovery that they 

 are the superior creation, and actually claim that the massive, 

 well-proportioned, strongly-set, symmetrical form of Adam is to 

 be preferred on the score of beauty to the softer graces of his 

 consort Eve. Well, it would require all the mental and physical 

 commanding attractiveness of an Apollo, his majestic beauty and 

 dulcet strains, to argue this astounding proposition with accept- 

 ance to this learned society, adorned and honoured as it is with 

 the presence of ladies. 



Beauty of Character. 



The beauty that is only skin deep, and depends upon puffs, 

 powders and cosmefciques, the art of the milUner, perfumer, or 

 " general repairer of property " plays but a very slight part in 

 the beauty or happiness of life, whereas sweetness of disposition 

 and character, the "beauty of hohness " shines out more con- 

 spicuously as bodily strength decays, the eye loses its brightness, 

 the form its grace, the limbs their power and elasticity, so that 

 the hoary head rather than the luxuriant tresses of youth is a 



" crown of glory when found in the way of righteousness." 



In its effect upon man's well-being a noble action is worth far 

 more than a fine statue or a beautiful picture. It is in heart not 

 in art that human dignity and beauty are manifest in their truest 

 and best form. 



The Key-note of Beauty is, Be natural. 



The man or woman is, as a general rule, most beautiful when 

 displaying the characteristics and performing the duties which 



naturally belong to them A manly-woman and a 



womanly-man, though not unknown in this World's Museum of 



curiosities, do not commend themselves to a refined taste.. 



When the wife assumes the garments naturally appertaining to 



the man, there are likely to be other breaches of the peace 



What is unnatural is not beautiful. High-heeled boots, pointed 



