Beauties From The Past

Do you ever see pictures of women From the turn of the twentieth century? So charming with style and grace Women with so much mystery? So many looked like movie stars And some of them probably were At a time when class was in style Though hard times they had to endure There’s just something about their faces The way they curled their hair I don’t know, a different kind of beauty So pretty, so sweet and fair Didn’t have botox and face-lifts then No, their beauty was the natural kind Not a lot of make-up either Nowadays it’s much harder to find So when you watch an old movie Or look at pictures from the past Watch for the ladies of long ago With a beauty that seemed to last!