Nebraska advertiser., 1867-12-05
Plain Girls.

Champions of plain girls are not.wan.
ting who boldly take the difficulty by the
horns; and deny in toto the fact that in
mAtrimOny and love the race is generally
TO the beautiful. Look about you, they
tell US, in the world, and you will as of.
ten as not find beauties fading on their
stalks, and plain girls marrying on every
side of them. And no doubt PLAIN girls
do tharry very very frequently. No.
body. for instance, With half an eye, can
fail to be familiar with the phenomenon,
in his Ubh circle, of astOnishingly ugly
married women. Il does not, however,
follow that plain girls are not tsFtibly
weighted in the race.
There are several reasons why wo.
men who rely on their beauty remain un.
married at The last, but the reason that
their beauty gives them no advantage is
teflainly not one. The first reason, per.
haps, Is that beauties are inclined to be
fastijious and capricious. They have no
notion of following the advice of Mrs.
Hannah Moore. and being contenled with
the first good sensible Christian Low.
er who falls ia their way and they
run, in consequence, no slight risk of
over. staying their market. They go IN
for a more splendid sort Of matrimonial
success, and think they can afford to play
the more daring game.
Plain girls are prOvidenlially preserv.
ed from these temptations. At the close
of we'll spent life they can conscien-
tiously look back on a career in which no
reasonable opportunity was neglected.
and say that they have not broken many
hearts, or been slnfully and distractnglv
particular. And there is The farther
consideration to be remembered in the
case of plain girls. that fortune and rank
are nearly as valuable aEliEles as beauty,
and lead 20 fair number of malrimoni-
al alliances. The system of Providence
is full of kindly compensatIons. and il is
a proof of the universal benevo:ence ne
see about US Iha. SO many heiresses are
plain.
Plain girls have right 70 be cheer
ed and comfOrIed by the thought. Il
Ieaches them the happy lesson that beau
~, as compared with settled income.
is skin deep and valueless and that
what man looks for in the companion of
his life is not so much bright cheek or
blue eye, as a substantial and useful
amount of this werld's wealth. Plain
girls again expect less, and are prepar-
ed to accept less, in lover. Everybody
knows the sort of useful, admirable.
practical man who sets himself 10 marry
a plain girl. He Is no. a man of great
rank, great promise, or great expecta-
lions Had it been otherwise. be might
possibly have flown at higher game, and
set his heart on marrying female lOveli-
ness rather than humely excellence.-
His choice, if it is nothing else, is an
index of a contented and modest dispo.
siGion. He Is not VAN enough to COM
pete in the great race for beauties. Wba:
he looks for Is some one who will be
mother of his children. who will order
his servants duly, and keep his house!
hold bills and whose sense will teach
her to recognize the sterling qualities of
her husband. and not object to bis dining
daily in his slippers. This IS the sort
of partner that plain girls may rational.
! " hope to secure. and who can say that
they ought not to be cheerful and happy
in their lot For character Of this un.
deniable sObriety there is indeed posi-.
tive advantage 10 a plain girl as a wife.
II should never be forgotten that the
man who marries PLAIN girl never need
be Jealous He is in the Arcadian and
fortunate condition of lover who has
no rivals. A sensible. unambilious ma.
Iure will recognize IN this solid benefit.
Plain girls rarely turn into frisky mat
rons, and this fact renders them reculi-
arly sdap'ed TO be wives of dull and
steady medi0criIy. @
Lest it should be supposed that the
above calculation of what plain girls may
do leaves some of their power and sue.
cess still unsCcounled for, il Is quite
right and proper to add that the story of
plain girls. if il were carefully written
would contain many instances not mere.
ly of moderate good fortune, but Oi
splendid and exceptional triumph. Like
Iprima dOnuas. opera dancers, and love lS
m,llinefs. plain girls have been known
to make extraordinary hits, and TO q.
wakeD IllusIriOus passions. Somebody
ought to take up the subject in book
and tell US how they did il. This j.
the age Of golden treasures. We have
golden treasures of English poets. d
French poets. of great lawyers. of fam.
Gus battles, of notable beauties, of Eng,
lish heroes, Of successful merchants, and