Article September 16, 1950 Issue

TRUE BEAUTY

MURIEL SONNICHSEN

THE quest for beauty has often motivated the human race to strange and fantastic customs. Among certain aboriginal tribes it is customary to distort the features in the belief that this beautifies the individual. To many civilized peoples this is appalling, yet the fashion of dressing among the latter may be just as distasteful to the aborigines. Mankind often becomes a slave to custom and fashion.

True beauty, however, is a natural and integral part of existence. It is universally recognized, appreciated, and sought after. Men try to express it in some form, but unfortunately in seeking it they often mistake the material form for the true idea. That is why there are such exaggerated attempts to express beauty.

A most interesting demonstration of true beauty was that of a friend of mine who, along with many other girls, wanted to be beautiful. She thought this to be impossible, however, because her jaw was heavy and her face long and sol emn. She could think of many reasons why she could never be pretty, and she used to dress so as to hide her defects. She always moved to conceal them and schooled herself to hold her head a certain way; in short, she spent most of her time thinking about herself.

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