BEAUTY IN THE COUNTRY 



I THE MAKING OF BEAUTY 



IT takes a hundred and fifty years to make a beauty 

 a hundred and fifty years out-of-doors. Open air, 

 hard manual labour or continuous exercise, good food, 

 good clothing, some degree of comfort, all of these, 

 but most especially open air, must play their part for 

 five generations before a beautiful woman can appear. 

 These conditions can only be found in the country, 

 and consequently all beautiful women come from 

 the country. Though the accident of birth may cause 

 their register to be signed in town, they are always 

 of country extraction. 



Let us glance back a hundred and fifty years, 

 say to 1735, and suppose a yeoman to have a son 

 about that time. That son would be bred upon the 

 hardest fare, but, though hard, it would be plentiful 

 and of honest sort. The bread would be home-baked, 

 the beef salted at home, the ale home-brewed. He 

 would work all day in the fields with the labourers, 

 but he would have three great advantages over them 

 in good and plentiful food, in good clothing, and 

 in home comforts. He would ride, and join all the 

 athletic sports of the time. Mere manual labour 

 stiffens the limbs, gymnastic exercises render them 

 supple. Thus he would obtain immense strength 

 from simple hard work, and agility from exercise. 



