The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-26
POPULAR PRETTY WOMEN.

Democratic State Executive Committee.
POPULAR PRETTY WOMEN.
The popular women we mean are
simply those met with in society, women
whose natural place is the drawing
room and whose sphere is the we'll
dressed world, women whoare emphati-
cally ladies, and who understand less
conrcnGnceS and obey them, even if they
take up a cause and practice philan-
thropy or preach philosophy. But the
populor woman rarely does take up a
cause, or make her philanthropy con-
spicuous or her philosophy audible.
Partisanship implies angels, and she
has no angels II Of the class of the
admired, she is most popular WHO'S alb
trusiye in her claims and most ingeni-
Gus in ignoring her superiority. A
pretty woman, however pretty, if affect
ed, vain, or apt to give herself airs,
may be admired, but is never popular
The men whom she snubs sneers at her
in private; the woman whom she
eclipses as well as snubs do more than
sheer; those only 10 whom she is gra-
cious find her beauty a thingof JOY, but
a. she is distractingly eclectic in her
favoritism she counts as many foes as
she has friends: and though those who
dislike her cannot call her ugly they
can call her disagreeable, and do. But
the pretty woman who wears her beauty
to all appearance unconsciously, never
suffering it to be aggressive to other wo-
man nor willfullv employing ii for the
destruction of men; who is gracious in
manner and of pleasant temper, who
! is frank and apprOachable and does not
seem to consider herself as something
sacred and set apart from the world be
cause nature made her lovelier than the
rcst-she is the woman whom all unite
in admiring, the popular person par er-
ccilsWcc Of her set.
The popular pretty woman Is one
who, take her as a young wife (and she
must be marriei,) honestly loves her
husband. but does not thrust her atiec-
tons into the face of the world, and
never flirts with him in public. Indeed,
she fli1s with other men just enough
to make time pass pleasantly, and en-
ioys a rapid waltz or lively converse
ton asmuch as when she was seventeen,
and before she was appropriated. She
does not think it necessary to go about
morally ticketed, nor does she find 1t
necessary for her dignity or virtue TO
fence herself round with GOODNESS or i'll
differences TO the multitude by way OF
providing her loyalty to one. Still, as
il is notorious that she does love her
husband, and every one knows that
thew are perfectly contented with each
other. and therefore not on the look-o
for supplements, the men with whom
she had those innocent little jokes,
those transparent secrets, those animated
conversations. that confessed friendship
and good understanding, does not make
mistakes, and the very woman belong
ing to them forget TO be censorious, even
though she is so much admired. She
is mother, too. and fond one, so can
svmpathize with other mothers, and eX-
patiatc on her nursery in the confiden-
tial chat over o'clock tea, ne all fond
mothers do and should. She keeps a
well-managed house, and is notorious
for the amount of needle-work she gets
through. and Of it she is prettily proud,
not being, ashamed to tell you that the
dress Won admire so much was made by
her own hands, and she will give your
wife the pattern if she likes, while she
boasts OF even rougher upholstery work
which she and her maid and her sewing
machine have got through with dispatch
and credit. She gives dinners with
carhct of their own, and that have been
evidently planned with careful thought
and study; and she is not above her
work as mistress and organizer of her
household. Yet she finds time to keep
abreast with the current literature OF
the day. and never has to confess to
ignorance of the ordinary topics Of con-
yersation. She is not woman OF ex-
IRENE views about anything. She has
not signed improper papers, and she
does not discuss improper questions;
she does not 90 in for womans rights;
she has a horror of facility Of divorce;
and she sets up for nothing-being
neither an Advanced Woman desirous
of usurping the possessions and PRIV
leges Of men, nor a Griselda who thinks
her proper place is at the feet of men,
to take their kicks with patience and
their caresses with gratitude, as is be-
coming in an inferior creature. She
does not dabble in politics; and though
she likes to make her dinners successful
and evenings brilliant, she by no means
assumes to be leader of fashion, or to
impose laws on her circle. She likes
TO te admired. and she is always ready,
too. TO do any good work that comes in
her way, and she finds time for the
careful overlooking of a few pet chart
ties about which she makes no parade,
inst as she finds time for her nursery
and her needle-work. And, truth to
tell she enjoys these quiet hours, with
only her children TO love her and her
moor pensioners to admire her, quite as
much as she enjoys the brilliant recep
tons where she il amongthe most popu'
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