The Washington critic., 1890-02-23

Satisfying and Fascinating TO 0'tho
Lords of Creation"
Copyright, 1890, by The Box Syndicate Press
In spite of the fact that "many men
have many minds" and that Individual
tastes differ as greatly as features and
tints, yet there are certain tastes which
are essentially masculine the world
over.
We have all often heard the express
sion, ooh, she Is Just the sort of woman
men likel" and we all feel an imme-
diate, If secret, interest in the woman
so referred to.
Men are the rulers of the world, and
TO please them is our aim and desire.
Often, however, their tastes are so
paradoxical that 1t would require q
seven headed Medusa to respond to all
their varied and contradictory ideas.
That a man likes beauty goes with
out saying, as that q bee likes flowers.
But as the bee only hutters about q
flower which contains no honey-yield.
ing property, so man only hovers brief
time about the beauty without wit or
charm.
A man likes woman TO be capable
of talking well at times, but he does
not care for the gaTulous girl He
likes to be listened to himself and OBJ
jects to the girl who monopolizes the
conversation almost as much as the one
who does not talk at all.
A man likes modesty, but he is dis
gusted with mock prudery.
He secretly likes a slightly uncon-
ventional girl, but he is SO sensitive to
public comment that he is afraid to
openly show his liking for her unless
she is well grounded socially. And
he is quck to censure If she defes the
proprieties or violates absolute good
form.
A man is utterly lacking in inde-
pendence regarding these matters, and
far more sensitive to public OPT nion
than the weaker sex. However much
he might enjoy the society of o woman
who defied conventional rules of dress
or department, he would not be seen in
public with her If he could avoid 1t.
And lapse from good morals does not
offend him so quickly as lapse from
good manners. A man likes discre-
tion, but he invites indis-
cretion from women. In Or
der to please him in the matter of
conduct and morals,we must do exactly
the opposite to his either bold or sub
tie suggestions. He will advise you to
be discreet with others, but tempt you
to folly himself merely to flatter his
own vanity. But he is disappointed
and disillusioned if you yield. There
are no exceptions to this rule. All men
are alike in this instinct to destroy vir.
tue, and in their secret hope that virtue
will withstand temptation. A man
likes an enthusiastic woman, but he
abhors gush. The girl who enjoys
herself thoroughly, and is not afraid to
show her enjoyment, always wins more
admirers than the languid beauty who
is forever "bored."
He likes girl who understands mas
culine sports and can appreciate skill
full games, but he does not like to have
her appreciation extend to riding a
bicycle or playing baseball herself.
A man likes woman who does not
scold him for smoking, and he is never
reformed by one who does.
He likes spice of coquetry in wo-
man, but he does not like the profes.
-sional flirt. He may pursue her, but il
is for amusement or conquest, not from
admiration.
He is afraid of the woman who boasts
of her conquests. The woman who
tells q man how many proposals she
has received and rejected from his dis
appointed fellow-men destroys his re-
spect for and confidence in her discre-
lion, and he is very sure not to add one
more proposal to her list.
He likes hint of daring flashing
through woman's nature, but hi
q Nd nnnt,,Nl1al FNhay
he enjoys thinking how he should likt
TO develop this dangerous trait. ant
congratulates himself upon being al
excellent fellow when he does not at
tempt 1t.
But he is repelled by bold dash ant
venturesomeness in a woman, for tina
he believes has been developed by SOM
other man, and it is not, therefore, Il
his taste.
The French maiden is told to neve
lift her eyes above the second shirt stuC
of the gentleman to whom she is listen
ing This sort of shyness entertains
man for one or two occasions; afte
that--or after he has compelled he
ewes to meet hist bores him. III
likes better the frank, honest, direc
gaze of the American girl; but the un
blushing stare of the Irritation inviting
belle is not to his liking, although h
may respond to it for the sake Of ad
venture,
A man likes woman of sympatheti
feeling and affectionate nature, but h
is afraid of the intensely emotional one
She tires and fatigues him, and is liabl
10 be exacting in her demands, or 0
least he fears she might be Th
highly emotional woman needs to wea
an armor of control and repose, n
matter what ii costs her to do so, if sh
would be pleasing to man. Let he
nature be suspected, and 1t fascinate'
let it be discovered, and it eR,1uies.
A man likes cheerful and optimisti
woman, though he may strive with a
his might to convert her to pessimisn
Yet the ready made cynic in woman
form shocks him. However erroneor
the idea, man regards woman as th
sunlight of life, and expects her
drive away malarial mists from h
mind and shadows from his heart b
her warmth and light.
Though she be accomplished, beaut
full and talented she will lose grouu
with the opposite sex if she is cynic
or sad. Every man likes to create h
own pessimist. He does not wish
find one
Men like an accomplished and brig
woman rather than talented one, ar
entertaining and amusing qualiti
rather than markedly intellectual one
A wise and tactful woman who d
sires to be popular with mankind (al
she is not wise if she does not win kel
her intellect subservient to her grac
and charms when in presence of men.
A man likes a woman's intellect
shine brilliantly in its full force on