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Winding Love's Skein: "In the fisherman's cottage in Holland, as well as in the American Home, there is the holding of the skein and winding of the yarn with friendship's bond, when 'Eyes look love to eyes that speak again'."

Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co

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on eachside with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graceswhich cannot be described, and surrounded it with such aflowing shade of hair as sets its beauties in the most agree-able light. An important element in color is gradation. Ruskinsays that what curvature is to lines, gradation is to shadesand colors. He states that gradation is so inseparably aquality of all natural shade and color that the eye refusesin art to understand anything in either which appears with-out it; while, on the other hand, nearly all the gradationsof Nature are so subtle and between degrees of tint soslightly separated, that no human hand can in any wiseequal or do anything more than suggest the idea of them.He is of the opinion that when the eye is quite uncultivatedit sees that a man is a man and a face is a face, but has noidea what shadows or lights fall upon the face or features.If the eye be cultivated to some degree of artistic power,it will then see shadows distinctly, but only the more vig-
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THE BASIS OF BEAUTY 29 orous of them. Let it be cultivated still further, and it willsee light within light and shadow within shadow, and willcontinually refuse to rest in what it has already discovered,that it may pursue what is more removed and more subtle,until at last it comes to give its chief attention and displayits chief power on gradations which to an untrained facultyare partly matters of indifference and partly imperceptible.Importance of Expression.-—Human beauty is not com-plete without expression. Form alone soon ceases to fasci-nate. It is expression, ever changing, that lends attractionto beauty and sustains ones interest. An index as to themind and character, it has a great part in our estimate of aperson. In the expression lies the individuality. The in-fluence of thoughts and emotions is seen in the face. Ruskintells how the action of the intellectual powers upon thefeatures is shown in the fine cutting and chiseling of them.The removal from them of signs of sensu

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