QUEER IDEAS OF BEAUTY.
A beauty is not a beauty all the world over. Women in Japan are lovely with gilt teeth; those of the ladies stain their teeth red. la Greenland the women cover tLeir faces with green and yellow pigment. In Persia an aquiline nose is a necessity to either male or female beauty, and' frequently out of a family of sons the accession to the throne has been decided by the shape of the nose. Bed hair is viewed with horror, and always dyed. On the contrary, in Turkey red hair is counted as a great btauty, and tbe women dye their haijt that tint. In China, where most eyes are nar row and long, a small, round (ye is considered an extraordinary beauty. Chinese girls pluck their eyebrows to make them very fine. Turkish women paint tbeir eyebrows with gold, and at night the eflect is very odd and not displeas-" ing.
