The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-11-21
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pain girls, showing how much more
Fortunate they are in regard TO mar
riage than their moro beautiful sisters,
The following paragraphs can not fail
of being interesting to our readers
champions of plain girls are not
wanting who boldly take thn difficulty
by the horns, and dony in toto the fact
that IN matrimony and love the race
is usually to the beautiful. Look
about you, they tell us, in the world,
and you will as often as not find beau
ties fading on thor stalks, and plain
girls marrying on every side of them.
And no doubt plain girls do marry We
ry frequently. Nobody, for instance,
with half an eye, can iall to be familiar
with the phenomenon, in his own cir
Gle, of astonishlnglv ugly married wo-
men.
at does not, however, follow that
plain girls are not terribly weighted in
the race. There are several reasons
why women who rely Oh their beauty
remain unmarried ut tho last, bnt the
reason hat their beauty gives them
no advantage Is certainly not one. The
first reason, porhaps, Is that beauties
are inclined to be fastidiOus and ca
PRECIOUS. They have no notion of fol
lowing the advice OF Mrs. Hannah
Moore, and being coptonted with the
first good, sensible Christian lover who
falls in their way; and they run, in con.
sequence, no slight risk Of overstaying
their market. They 20 IN for a more
splendid SORT of matrimonial success,
aud think they can afford to play the
more daring game.
Plain girls are pr~ovidentially pre-.
served from these temptations. At the
close of II well spent life, they can con
s%cienuonsly look back on II career in
which no reasonable opportunity was
neglected, and say that they have not
broken many hearts, or been sinfulIy
and distractiugiy particular. And
there Is the further consideration 10 DO
remembered in the case Of plain girls,
that fortune and rank are ncavly as
valuable articles as beauty, and lead to
Il far number OF matrimonial alliances.
The systom of Providence ia iull of.
kindly compcnsations, and il is Il proof
of the universal benevolence we gee
about us that so many heiresses should
be PLAIN. PLAN girls have n right 70
be checred and comforted by the
thought.
1t teaches Them tho happy lesson that
beauty, rs compared with settled in
come, is skin deep and valueloss; and
that what man looks for in the COM
panion of his life is not so much a
brigh. check OF u blue eye, as n sub
s%tantial and a useful amount of this
worlds wealth. Plain sirls, again, ex-
pect less, and are prepared to accept
less, in n lover. Everybody knows the
sort of useful, admirable, practical man
who sets himself to marry a plain girl.
He is not a man Of great rank, great
promise, or great expectations. Had
u been otherwise, ne might possibly
have flown at higher game and set his
heart on marrying female loneliness
rather than homely excellence. His
choice, If II is nothing else, il al index
Of n contented and modest disposition.
He is not vain enough to compete in
the great race for beauties.
What he looks for Is some one who
will be mother ofhis children. who
will order up servants duly, and keep,
his household bills; and whose good
sense will teach her to recognize the
sterling qualities of her husband, and
no object to his dining daily IN his
slippers. THIS is the sort Of partner
that plain girls may nationally hope to
secure, and who car say that they
ought not to be cheerful and happy in
their Ut? For Il character Of this I'M
deniable sobrlotY there is indeed u
positive advantage in n PLAIN girl as a
wife. 1t should never be forgotten
that the nan who marrics a plain girl
never need be jealous. He Is in the
Arcadian and fortunate condition of Il
lover who has no rivals. A sensible,
unambitious nature will recognize in
this a solid benefit. Plain girls rarely
turn into risky matrOns, aud this fact
renders them peculiarly adapted 10 be
the wives ofdull and steady mediocre
ty.
Lest it should DO supposed that the
above calculation of what plain girls,
may DO leave some OF thor power and
success still u%naccOunted for, it ~ quite
right and proper to ada that the story
of PLAIN girls, If it were carefully writ
ton. would contain many Instances,
not merely Of moderate good fortune,
but OF splendid and excellent triumph.
Like prima donnas. opera dances aud
lovely milllners, plain girls have been
known TO make extraordinary hits,
and to awaked Illustrious passions.
Somebody ought to take up the sub
ject in a book, and tell us how they
did it. This ls the age ofgoldoh treas.
urios.
We have golden treasures of Eng.
lish poets, of French poets. Of great
lawyers, of famous bottles, Of notable
benuties. of Enc lish heroes IF succ,ss-