Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-24
WHAT MEN LIKE IN WOMEN.

W HAT MEN LINZ IN NOhE-N.
Ladies Home Journal
There is certain something, which,
for want of a better name is called
womanliness, and it is that which makes
women attractive to men. A great many
virtues go to make up this one great
possession and they are what men like
in women.
Men like, in the first place, amiability
in woman.
They like pleasant appearance.
They like the doing of little things
that are pleasant to them.
They like the courtesy of the fireside.
They like women whose lives and faces
are always full of the sunshine of con-
tented mind and a cheerful disposition.
They like an ability to talk we'll and
knowledge of the virtues of silence
They like motherliness big enough
to understand the wants of the older, as
well as the younger boys.
They like disposition to speak good,
rather than evil, of every human being.
They like sympathy-which means
willing ear for the tale of sorrow or
gladness.
| They like knowledge of how to dress
well, which by the by, doesn't mean con-
spicuously. Men are most attracted by
good material, PLAIN draperies, and quiet
colors; not by snowy colors or designs.
They like intelligence, but they prefer
that the heart should be stronger than
| the brain.
They like cOmpaniOn-a woman who
has sufficient knowledge of the world and
! its ways to talk well with them, who is
| interested in their lives and in their
plans and in their hopes; who knows
how to give cheering word, and to lis
/ ten quietly and by tender look express
the grief which the heart is feeling.
They may sometimes say that children
are bore and a nuisance, but man
| shrinkS from woman who openly de-
clares her dislike of them. A man ex-
poets the maternal instinct in woman
and is disappointed if he does not find it.
They like women to be affectionate-
! there never was a man yet no matter
how stern, no matter how cold, no matter
how repressive as far as his own feelings
were concerned, who did not like a
! loving squeeze of the hand or tender
kiss from the woman nearest him.
These are some of the things that men
like in women.
| WHAT WOMEN LIKE IN MEN.
Women, think, like manly, not lady
like men.
They like honesty of purpose and con-
sideration.
They like men who believe in women.
They like their opinions to be thought
of some value.
They like man who can be as strong
as lion when trouble comes, and yet, if
one is nervous and tired, can button up
shoe and do it with an amount of con-
sideration that is mental and physical
bracer up.
They like man who can take hold of
the baby, convince it of his power and
get to sleep after they have been worry
ing with it and walking with it until
their eyes are tired and they feel as if they
had no brains.
They like man who is interested in
their new dresses, who can give an
opinion on the fit and who is properly
indignant at any article written against
women.
They like man who knows their in
nocent weaknesses and caters to them;
who will bring home a box of candy, the
last new magazine, or the latest puzzle
sold on the street, that will do more than
its duty in entertaining everybody for
the whole evening.
| They like man who is master of the
situation-that is who has brain enough
to help woman to decide what is the
best thing to do under the circumstances,
and who has wit enough to realize, when
one of the fairer sex is slightly stubborn,
that persuasion is more powerful than
all the arguments in the world.
| They like a man who like them, who
doesn't scorn their opinions, who believes
in their good taste, who has confidence
in their truth, and who, best of all,
knows that the love promised is given
him.
That's the sort of a man a woman
likes, and her every sigh of satisfaction,
as his virtues are mentioned, is a little
prayer that says, "God bless him"