The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-07-24
COQUETRY AND BEAUTY
susceptibility Of Men to Frivolity
and Simplicity.
Coquettes Seem to Command Premium
while Brainy Women Are at . Dis
count-Tho Masculine Mind Tired
Of Pedantic Lectures.

A born coquette is more dangerous
than beauty, asserts writer in the
New York World. She inherits bet
ter legacy than wealth, for while money
gives life its cushion beauty gives 10
color and coquetry makes it sparkle.
The coquette will go on with her con-
quests while there Is a man left In the
world with heart in his bosom. There
is woman in New York who keeps o
big boarding-school for the educa
ton Of coquettes, and instead
of walking on rose leaves she treads on
golden eagles. Seats at her perform
ances are secured two years in advance,
and to make the application you pay .
handsome deposit. There are no graded
courses Of study, no exhaustive cxamina-
tions, no tedious memory lessons and
no incessant, eternal and intolerabfe
smashing of piano-kcys Aspirants for
degrees can go to tho Harvard annex.
Would-be grcradicrs arc directed to
Holyoke ard Columbia and blue stock
ings are advised to enter local high
schools and universities for intellectual
force. Here coquetry is fostered
and no secret made about 1t, either.
Square shoulders are rounded into Do
Milo grace; fiat soles are raised by ju-
dicious foot coverings; high foreheads
sheltered by kiss curls; harsh voices
lowered q whole tone; angular elbows
turned in; stiff joints loosened and
every symptom Of strong mind rigidly
suppressed The pupil is swectcned,
sofeened and curved. She is carefully
instructed to know nothing and to do
nothing that will rob grace or mar q
smile.
And does she pay?
Doesn't she.
Drop her in the village lane or quiet
promenade of her native city and see IL
she is not gobbled up by the most prom
Using young lawyer or most prominens
bachelor in the town.
This is serious, angular old world.
Men are sick and tired of shrewdness,
logic, argument and brains. They want
to be amused, distracted, diverted.
Good sense is tedious after the market
closes, and the woman who talks profit
and loss, supply and demand, premium
and discount in evening dress, in the
moonlight or at q dinner party, Is q
nightmare in petticoats, to be eluded at
the first turn in the lane. Change is
rest, and, while we hate giCgling, we
love gabble. There is where the CO.
quetry Of woman wins.
! remember riding in an elevated
train beside grizzly man Of fifty and %
breezy, chatty girl enveloped in flutter-
ing ribbons, dreamy lace and the scent
! of wild olives, who was pouring society
! chat into her companions ear. Whom q
lull came in her recital do you think he
sighed restfully? Not bit of it. His
only remark was: "Tell me some more"
Couuetry is to tho wine of life what
the sparkle is to champagne, and there
are women who can no more help being
coquettish than that delicious draught
can help bubbling.
A pretty lot Of nonsense, too, brothers
preach against rico powder, curl papers,
lip rouge and sweet scent. 1t is mat
ter of comment that these dear protect
ed sisters receive more than liberal al
lowancc of homo, while the veriest
Dolly Warden in the set has her fill of
the play, the dance and the tennis
court.
The coouette is helped over dangerous
crossings, her packages arc picked up
and brushed when she drops them. The
first place at bank window and the
first consideration in the shops are hers.
The coQuette gets the loveliest flowers,
the most delicious candies, tho newest
books and the latest prints in the mar
ket. The coquettes receive the idolatry
of men. Their hearts, their hands,
their names, and finally their worldly
goods
She need not make showcase of her
self nor play the flower garden to the
captivating A girl can be absolutely
irresistible in ffteen-cent cambria.
Innocence, youth, beauty, sentiment ara
associated with girl in white dress.
Plenty of men shrink from brocadc and
passameneterie as fabrics beyond their
income, but the white cam brio, the
white null, the white any thing is a
raiment that blots out arithmetical cal
culation.
The coquette may be as wise as Maria
Mitchell, Susan b. Anthony or Abigail
Dodge, but she will never let man find
it out. She knows too we'll how they
hate things didactic. And so she smiles
sweetly talks gayly and lives to please.
hero . iuSh w IiIo i4Ibic SoquoIVe' Lohs
may she wave and never waver.
A Hermit in New York Hotel
7 The census brought out the fact that
man can live in New York hotel foi
, ten years and never speak to any one OF
i enter into any communication with any
one except as to the commonplace af.
fairs of eating and drinking. This cham
pion hermit lives at the Grand Union
Hotel and is known as Bailey, That Is
all that is known about him. There was