Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-30
The Women Men Like.


II the popular woman be not very
high type of woman, her virtues and
her faults. il must be admitted, are of
am amiable sort. She is of ali beings,
the most social; delighting inner kind,
anddependent upon It for her pleasures
society is absolutely necessary to her.
We ito not mean by society that which
Is represented only by her highest cir
cles i'm rank, wealth or intellect, but
simply the constant friction with her
fllOw-beingS. Solitude to her means
desolatiOu; in it her spirits languish,
her temper SOurS. The dread cOncen-
irated natures experience in charging
the number of their acuuaintances, lest
they be distracted from their purpose in
life: the shrinking within themselves
of the ,hy before strangers; the depres-
sion Ofthe Oyer-SeuSitive, weighed down
Ly sense of incOmpleteneSs, in the
Presence of varied interests and aims
these are sensations unknown to the
popular woman.
The popular woman is seldom domes-
tie; the narrow circle of home duties
seems 10 be too limited to absorb that
superintendent energy, and its routine
is distateful to her. Those sudden calls
that upset the even tenor of existence
and prove SO flurrying and distracting
To grOOve-lOving individuals, have an
eXhilarating effect upon her spirits. The
home circle may suffer from this wife
extension of herself, and feel the lack of
that concentrated sympathy of a wo-
mans heart which makes the atmos-
phere benign; but it, on the other hand,
shares her sense of zest in life; there is
a ,OntagiOn in her Incompatible en-
jOyment of the business or pleasure of
the present.
The popular woman is very easy
going and largely tolerant. Next to
her animal spirits, this indulgent tenn
per Is her greatest charm. We feel
easy in her presence; there is no neeeS-
sity TO put ones best foot forward in
tellectually and morally we can keep on
our slippers and relax the backbone OF
our principles. Her indulgence does not
spring from the charity that knoweth
no evil, y nor from the eynicisms that
relieves in evil only, but from her
knowledge of man and womankind.
1t is a knowledge not profound or sub
tie, but such as it il it knows varied
and true, it has the advantage of being
taken from nature, it is not second
hand, nor derived from books or hear
say. This knowledge of human nature
skin deep though it may be, gives her
the inestimable talent of flattery. She
does not contribute any flashes of wit
to the conversation, any number of facts
to the store of learning, but there isa
criSpness of originality in her remarks,
certain raciness of expression that
gives piquaney to her phrases. a gift
peculiar to her is a rapid appreciation of
the wit OF others; power of seizing it
and throwing CLEAN upon it that
makes it evident to duller brains. She
Is not sarcastic, and never on the
heights. SlOw-witted and commonplace
folks do not fear to hear. She will not
soar above the level of their cOmpre-
henSiOn, and she will dart those shafts
OF irony they have an uncomfortable
feeling their clever sisters occasionally
level at them. Intellectual folks take
pleasure in aeompanionShip that is easy
and not dull. Its an ineOntestable fact
that people of intellect find relaxation
IN the society of those who do not re-
qnire them to be always pumping their
brains. They like gossip, and the popu-
Lar woman is fond Of gossip.
I'VE are persuaded that the ancient
dermes with all the subtle art and natural
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