Daily Independent

BEAUTY NO LONGER A MARVEL
Time Has Gone By When World Stopped to Wonder at Loveliness of Women,

Within the last week two well-known, beautiful, rich society girls, both young, both popular, with all doors to which society has the key flung open before them, have elected to go into an East End hospital and scrub floors for pauper invalids. Perhaps they will not stick to it: the important thing is that they want to try it.

The fact is that we are no longer sufficiently satisfied with beauty to think a woman has justified herself by being good to look at. Thirty or forty years ago people came from every part of the world to see Georgiana Lady Dudley, Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Cornwallis-West walk in the park. At an earlier date the beautiful Gunnings caused riots, so great was the anxiety to see them. Anne of Austria drew people from the most inaccessible corners of what was then a very inaccessible world, who made their way with year-long journeys to Paris, caught a glimpse of her entering her carriage and went home again saying they had seen loveliness itself.

Today we would not cross the road to see a pretty woman, possibly because there are so many of them. Indeed, beautiful women of today are more admired by women than by men. But in any case beauty as a profession is dead.—London Truth.