The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-17
The Sort of Men Girls Like.

It is, we believe, commonly understood
to be-a fact that women are less affected
than men by mere personal beauty.
And ztO some extent we incline to this
Cd Mon also. Yet what are called
beauty men" have their worshipsrs,
and dispense their little favors with as
charming 8 sense of, their own condo,
scension and affability as their rivals OF
the opposite sex. But, after all, man
who has beauty, and. nothing more, is
apt to fall, and we doubt if he comes
under the category OF the men that
girls ike. His serene belief in his own
PROJECTIONS, and his secure conviction
that every woman that comes under the
charm of his soft eyes and elegant fea-
lures must fall a victim to destinations,
have an irritating effect, And the con-
sequence of widespread search after fas.
cination makes such a man difficult,
almost impossible, to fix. A girl,
stone that 8 poor thing, but her
own" is preferable to a thing of beauty
shared among her friends. Beauty,
macy, folly and selfishness are all in
their turn adored by women of all
grades. Therefore let US take typical
girl-oue who has seen more than one
man in her life, who does not live in the
country all year round, or in a watering
place where man is man be he never
so little of one Our typical girl shall
be intelligent, good, healthy, and fairly
educated. And we need not concern
ourselves with the men whom, under
pressure OF circumstances, such q girl
might be induced 10 marry. The cues
ton is, what sort of q man does she
like2 Is it the young man-turned out
by the dozen from our public schools and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. an interest in life
but his own amusement, whose whole
talk is of himself and his own proceed
ings? OF this young man there are two
types-the effeminate and the manly
They are equally uninteresting but of
the two, if she has a preference, our girl
will incline to the latter. If such soul
as a specimen of the manly type pos.
sesses Is absorbed in cricket, athletics,
yachting. hunting, shooting if he never
opens 8 book, and can only discourse of
his own feats of proves on land or sea,
he is upon the whole less Objectionable
than his brother, who sits and talks like
8 girl" of the balls he has been to, the
balls he is going to, the new dances or
the old dances, the .cut of his own coats
which is 30 good, ana the cut of his
friends coat, which is "much to awfulIy
disgusting ;" the division of his hair, the
Every, very nice people" he meets, (by
which, preparedness, he means people
who are f'in" society-the higher
placed the "nicer." But we NAV
with confidence say this is not
| the man our girl likes.
| Nor do we think she takes much to the
lout who finds type in all classes. He
! is the man who has no conversation
who processes to despise " worldliness, .
because the world rejects him who
comes into a drawing-room covered with
mud, often with his trowsers rolled VI
over his ankles If he had been walking
and q general air of here-I-am.and be
thankful to-have-me-at'sny-p abour
him; who sits still while his tea i
handed to him, and never even offers t.
help with the kettle and the bread ant
butter.
Nor will the " sheppy" man sttrac
our girl; the lawyer who always lapse