New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-10
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TACT AND BEAUTY.
Whv Plain Girls arc Preferred TO Hahtl-
sOu1e Ones.

A lady who had seen much OF the
world was asked on one occasion why
plain girls often get married sooner
than handsome ones; to which she re-
piled that it was owing mainly to the
tact Of the plain girls, and the vanity
and want Of tact on the part Of men.
How do you make that out?n asked
q gentleman.
''In this way" answered the lady.
The plain girls fatter the men, and
so please their vanity; whil0 tho hand
some ones wait to be flattered by tho
men, who haven't the tact to do it. -
There have been cases, however, in
which the situation presented here has
been reversed, and plain, even ugly,
men have succeeded in making them.
selves so agreeable to young ladies as
to become their accepted suitors. Hero
is case in point. When Sheridan first
met his second wife, who was then .
Miss Ogle, years of dissipation had
sadly disfgured his once handsome
features, and only his brilliant eyes
were left to redeem nose and cheeks
too purple in hue for beauty. "What
q fright!' exclaimed Miss Ogle. loud
enough for him to hear. Instead Of be-
ing annoyed by the remark, Sheridan
ut once engaged her in conversation,
put forth all his powers of fascination,
and resolved to make her not only re-
verse her opinion, but actually fall in
love with him. At their second meet
ing she thought him ugly, but certain
iy fascinating. A week or two after
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design that she declared that she could
not live without him. Her father re-
fused his consent unless Sheridan could
settle fl5,0OO upon her, and in his
usual miraculous way he found tho
money.
Those who have read George Eliot's
'Felix Holt will remember how Felix.
though himself q rough, unpublished
workman, gained the love Of a refined
and delicately reared young lady, not
by flattering, or even attempting to
please and crafty her, but by Gliding,
depreciating, and almost despising her
because she read Byron, aud knew
nothing of the heavy mental pabulum
on which he himself was wont to feed.
She was at first dreadfully vexed and
offended; but by-and-by she came to
believe that Felix had q grand moral
ideal, beside whichsher own was frivo-
lous and insignificant; and striving to
emulate his exalted motives and views
of life, she made him her beau ideal,
with, of course, the usual result.
In theory or in novel this Is no doubt
all very fine, but in everyday life the
mode of procedure adopted by Felix
Holt would be, to say the least, de-
cidedly risky, and would very probab-
ly end disastrously. 1t is always safer
to risk little Aattery.
Happy is the wOOinR
That Is not long ADDING,
says the old couplet; but modern
counselor thinks it necessary to qualify
the adage by the advice: Never mar
ry girl unless you have known her
three days, and at picnic In this.
as in other matters, it is always desira-
bic to hit the happy medium.
Marrying in haste is certainly worse
than oprotracted courtship; though
tho latter has its dangers, too, for
something may occur at any time to
break off the affair altogether, and
prevent what might have been happy
union. 1t may always be concluded
there is something wrong il Matilda
is obliged to say to her Theodore:
Don't sit so far away from me, dear,
and turn your back on me SO; people
will think we're married"
A friend of Robert Hall, the famous
English preacher, once asked him re-
garding lady of their acquaintance:
''Will she make good wife for mep''
"Well," replied Mr.. Hall, II can hard
~ say-I never lived with her!" Here
Mr.. Hall touched the real test Of hap
piness in marril life. 1t is one thing
to sec ladies on "dress" occasions and
when every effort is being made to
please them; it is quite another thing
to see them amid the varied and often
conflicting circumstances of household
life.