Demorest's Family Magazine
DEMOREST’S FAMILY MAGAZINE. Ho. CCCXLI. NOVEMBER, 1891. Vol. XXVIII., No. 1 FAMOUS BEAUTIES OF THE SOUTH. T HE “ New South” is a land of startling paradoxes, pretty imperiousness of mien, the proud self-security, that of most egregious contradictions. Differing cli- underlies every varying mood, since noblesse oblige. An matically, topographically, organically, in no degree other birthright is the light-hearted, débonnaire tempera from the South of ante-bellum days, when a languorous en ment, an element of beauty transmitted from remote parents chantment, a restful opulence, pervaded all the land, and of culture and luxury, who had no mind to bequeath to pos men dwelt in a Utopia of plenty, peace, and fealty to old terity a heritage of demoralized nerves and hard visages traditions, it is yet, this South of ours, essentially trans that come of the sordid clamor and strife of a later civili formed. zation. The rush and progress of a modern civilization have laid Again she is beautiful, this typic daughter of the South, their untender clutches upon this fair, dreaming land of sun because she breathes the beauty about her,—the balm of shine, and ruthlessly awakened it to its commercial duty, to the atmosphere, the radiance of the skies, the fragrant the rich possibilities, the boundless opportunities, that lie secret of many roses. within its grasp, and it has shaken its sloth from it as a gar “ The beauty bom of murmuring sound ment, and girded up its loins and gone into the fray with a Has passed into her face,” zest the greater for long husbanding.
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