The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-29
Pretty Women.

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Men. generally are credited by the
other sex with caring for nothing but
beauty in women, says a writer in The
Louisville Courier-Journal. She is al
ways affirming that pretty face
| weighs more with them than intellect,
culture, accomplishment, character,
amiability of disposition, or graceful
ness of manner. There is an ostensi-
| BILE basis for it, no doubt, as little OBJ
servation will show. Very few of US
but are acquainted with men of mind.
force, and taste who have made them
selves ridiculous about and wholly lost
their hearts, not to speak of their heads,
to the simple owners of certain
amount Of physical comliness. Man,
it may be argued. is .perpetually talking
OF pretty women, as if pref
tiness were the sole quality in thom
worthy of consideration. The truth Of
this can not be gainsaid; pretty is his
pet adjective; he applies it to all the
daughters of earth-in the way of en-,
comium. He says "She is very pretty"
as though he had exhausted euloey.
He asks, "Is she pretty?" as If deem
ing any other question superfuous.
But does he mean pretty in the general
acceptance of the term? Does he mean
only fair exterior? Does he wish 10
convey that he feels no interest in
aught but certain winning material
combination. Ask him, he will say,
"Not in the least" Prettiness Is .
vague sort of substantive. very loosely
applied to woman Ind in manner
generally desi snede eto be indefinitely
complimentary. He employs it, thoaEA
he may be unaware of it. The term, i
merely conventional / have noticed
that man is likely 70 believe woman
handsome if he is fond of her, for besS-
ty is associated with affection-that. Il
might almost be defined as the thin9Ee
love. d
Beauty is very imperial u
human life, in the destiny An
race; but to be commandin CON
tinuously influential. it bhlksf be- sus-
tanned with something eli Apart
from mind, manners, culture! charac-
ter it is a poor possession, and only
proclaims the lack of what, by nat
ural law, should be its adjuncts. A
merely pretty, handsome, or beautiful
woman is no match for one who is
plain, even homely, in person, provide ed
she has tact delicacy of instinct, ele-
gance, and cleyerness; the beauty will
make an impression at first, but the
impression will be removed and re-
action will set in unless the pretty
woman can prove by some other and
higher means her right to physical
favor. She will soon be regarded as a
counterfeit, having nothing internal
to answer to the external. Who are
the interesting, the attractive. the
charming women of society in this
country? Are they uniformly beauti-
fulp Is their Tenchantment in their
faces and figuresp Are their bodies
more than their souls? Their bellehood
springs from their manners, what they
feel or think. Are they whom you de.
light to meet to talk to the ones of pink
and white compilations, Grecian noses,
cameo-cut, and perfect, superb formsp 2
Would you choose for companion,
wife her whose chiefest charms rest in
luAuriant hair, regular features. II
have heard men say theysprefer fine
woman without personal charms to
the fairest goddess radiant with
| NO ACdlGulul IlltSu C1A vi
does despise beauty in any shape, but
between beauty and brains there is only
one CHOICE says famous author.
Who are the real favorites with women
as rule? In your own circles are the
splendid-looking fellows. the handsome
ones, the dangerous onesp Give man
of fine person and presence, fervor,
sensibility, and character to match, and
you have equipped him with undue odds
in his favor. Love idealizes, especially
in the feminine heart. Love is born Of
unreason and continued in mystery.
Externals have little to do with it. It
has a lawless law of its own, and moves
in courses SO eccentric that their direc-
ton can never be traced. When you
hear woman of any force speak of a
mans mere handsomeness you may be
sure he has only caught her eye, her
heart is for somebody else. '.In truth.
she is apt to be fondest OF him about
whom she is silent, the consciousness
of her preference makes her sensitive
about approval. What she would be
/ glad to say she would not dare say at
| all. J" 1t is gratifying sign of increas-
ing progress that women (pretty wo-
men, too) everywhere are awaking to a
new sense of duty and responsibility.
and are ready to act in new and respons.
ible ways when occasion calls for it.