, 1890-07-11

us pfOHlAso u BOou wear, they emu as
friend of my own did. He married
beauty, asweethttle Dresden shepherdes
sort o. thing. who one day came to m,
with q puckered brow to ask:
What could Tom mean, do you sup
pose? Last night he looked and looke(
into my eyes. and at last he said, Moth
ing but blue eyes-nothing more VIVA
should there be more-do tell me2'
why, nothing, dear" replied I truth
fully. They are very pretty blue eyes
and just IS pretty now as when Ton
first fell in love with them"
But besides beauty, which is an obvi
Gus temptation to choose the wrong
woman, there are at least dozen othel
false lights wooing this poor, shor,
sighted creature man TO his destruc
hon.
There is the style of woman which ]
have studied a good deal, but thus fAl
with no satisfactory results. She is not
pretty; b need not be very young; she
may be maid, wife or widow, although
rather apt to be the Last. She Is not very
striking in any way and seldom allow
herself to be conspicuous, but In some
~inscrutable way she always gets there, y
a. a may ~ aONC4 ~ vi hAkukf ALI
will never appear at any place where
men do congregate without attracting
them, as surely as the candle does the
moths. She is not too brilliant a con-
versationalist-a quality which gener-
ally frightens men-but she makes pretty
speeches In a soft, low voice; she has a
way of lighting up her face at the ap-
proach OF some fsvorite cavalier; she
possesses infinite tact in harmonixinR
conflicting tempers and smoothing over
rough places; she Is chameleon like In
her power Of adaptation to the moods OF
prejudices Of her companion OF the mo
ment. She Is, in fact, charming, IL one
can get nd Of a certain uncomfortable
sense of the machinery. 1t Is a little too
much like admiring Juliet, when you
happen to know all about the actress
domestic and financial troubles, and,
Although you cordially exclaim, How
well h does It'll" you never for a mo-
ment fancy that she means what she
iays or Is what she appears.
Now this kind of woman Is not what
I call the best for q man to choose as
wife, and / am always sorry when I see
1t done. There is, however, one safe
uooi,oo seAi tho
charming woman Is generally quite n
pracucaI as she Is charming, and doesn't
resign ner owsR over LII to take up with
one unless IL Is very much TO her ad'
vantage to do 80; n II she does MARI,
she is apt to become ~inuorious to other
women, for great prosperity has a stulti-
flying effect, and your very wealthy
woman seldom takes the trouble to
cnhrm.
Another style OF women apt to attract
men, and not at al h best women for
them to choose as wives, are the women
who pay the coarser sex the compliment
OF initiating 1t. Happily this style Ii
rather exotic with us, coming In with
the AnglomaniA 30 prevalent Of late, and
IS 1t is by no means adapted to the eli
mate or to the delicate type of American
femininity 1t has never thiven here ~
abroad
These are the women who boast of
Q being tired; they rise Mt unearthly
hours and drag their reluctant admirers
with them to see sunrises and Catch
morning effects" a euphemism for In
fuenza; put on short skirts and thick
boots and taking alpenstocks In hand
climb Mont Blanc as . morning. recrea-
hon Of that inaccessible top peak is ever
reached 1t VII b By one Of these wo-
mem; they ride At big fences" and are
'@tn ut the death" and slash their riding
habits with their whips ~ they loudly
proclaim their own / owess In the chase;
they take a weed" more or less surrep-
htiously; they demand liquid refresh
ments of the most heroic nature; they
talk slang and venture upon eIpletives,
as near profanity rs they dare. for after
all they arc generally Thoroughly good
women and would shrink from immor-
atty with an angry kind of virtue all
their own.
One cannot after all cay hat these
attract men to their society, for they
give the men no choice; they force their
o~ompanionship upon them IN all those
sports which men have chosen to con-
slider especially their own, and conse-
qusntly In the conversation resulting
from those sports They have thus the
pull over their gentler sisters of a COM
mon topic and common occupation, and
1t lot infrequently happens hat q man
marries such a woman just because he
sees her all the time; simply = case Of
propinquity. They make undesirable
wives, however, especially II poor, for
they are a. impatient of woman's self
sacrifices and quiet drudeery a. a nah ia.
knew one such GIRL and whan hsr
babv wa. three months old \ 49, a.
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UPON a yaShIns e,cu,sion ana mao q
hammock siung on deck Tor 1t.
but after all, the kind OF woman that
men generally marry belongs to none of