The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-11
ALL SORTS IF LOVERS.
WHAT KIND DO THE WOMEN LOVE
BEST7

body Else Values.
copyright, 1890, by American Press Association.
what do all the women see to admire
in that fellow? We men don't like himr
growled remarkably nice, but remarka
bly, unattractiye, man in my ear, as W.
watched Mr.. Nullus Memo walking VI
and down the promenade with the pref
test woman Of the season upon his arm
and half dozen more looking wistfullJ
after him.
Perhaps you men don't like him just
because we women do" replied l IN
kindly, and then turned like the worm
But I'll tell you one of the things one
woman sees not to admire in you, if you
like"
only one of them" asked my friend
sarcastically.
''Only one at time. It is in the very
worst taste while you sit beside one wo-
man to show yourself jealous of the at
| tention some other man is attracting
from other women. The theory, no mat
ter how fimsy theory it is, in the mind
| Of every woman is, that she is sufficient
| to engross all the attention of the man
| she is talking to for the moment, and to
envy Mr.. Nullus Memo his little success
is to show that you would prefer his posi-
ton to your own. Do you see?"
Good heavens! Do you suppose l
would rather promenade with that pretty
baby than to talk with you?"
Il don't know, I'm sure. The only
important thing in the matter is that
you showed me why you are not favor
lite with women"
'"Too kind Of you! Perhaps you viii
give me some little instruction in the art
of becoming SO"
''If you will unbend the majesty of
your brow, which is really too altogether
appalling-there, that is better-I will
give you one brief, comprehensive and
most effectual rule: Attend to only one
woman at a time"
And smiling benignly upon Russian
diplomatic just passing US, L took his arm
and sauntered away, leaving my Scotch
lord to digest my advice at his leisure.
Well, it was sound. There is nothing
to resent than wandering attention, and
think if one were to study the character
istics of those men who achieve phenome-
nal success among women, it would in
variabSy be found that they possessed the
power of concentration il marked de-
gree.
Everybody knows that man need not
I,o ba,1ro-,,a 70 INa ,1v,,j-.a1 opI halOv-aI
Some extraordinarily ugly men have car
RED all before them and distanced the
Adonises of their day as completely as
Ninon de IEnclos did the fair young de-
butdnteS of her time. Few men, in fact,
have the strength of mind to bear being
handsome without being vain.
i have lately said that beautiful wo-
men are seldom vain, although perfectly
conscious of their beauty. They accept
the fact, are grateful for it, use it as a
weapon perhaps. but, if they have any
brains ut all, DO not suffer it to absorb
their attention or to stamp itself upon
their manner. 1t is ike the multiplied
ton table, thing to be learned and set
aside in the archives Of the mind for use
when it may be required, but not to be
paraded at other times.
With men this is not so; beauty with
them is an extraneous gift; they are not
born to it, they do not need it, it does
not help them on in life, it is not for
them the promise of love and all that
makes life sweet TO woman.
An ugly man knows very well that, il
he possesses even in moderation the ele-
ments of success in tie tCOrld, he can
marry, and marry well at any time
he chooses, and his looks will have very
little to do with the matter, in fact are
rather help than hindrance, for a
pretty woman knows very well that her
good looks are never SO marked as when
set off by foil.
Beauty is far more striking when she
walks beside the beast than when she
promenades with Apollo.
The handsome man dresses with a
painful attention TO his complexion and
the color Of his eyes; the ugly man if he
thinks at all about his dress wears what
his beauty Of the hour approves, and if
he ventures on a bit Of color it is sure to
be her fayorite color. although II may be
the most deadly possible for himself. and
beauty likes him infinitely better for the
compliment 70 her own taste than for
any amount Of correct taste that had no
reference to her.
The handsome man seated BESIDE
pretty woman and opposite a mirror
steals glances now and then at his own
reflection and, as be fancies, unobserved,
pushes back his hair, straightens his
mustache or draws a quarter Of an inch
more Of his handkerchief out Of his
pocket.
The ugly man under the same circum-
stances looks al the reflection OF his COM
panion's face, and, If le dares, murmurs
something about ''that charming picture
opposite"
The handsome man expects, nay, de-
mands. the homage of woman as a sort OF
divine right: he feels that she whom he
distinguishes by his favor is il manner
bound 70 be upon her best behavior, and
show q sense Of her promotion by str1v-
ing 10 deserve 1t; II she doesn't, why.
there are always the others, poor things!
No. II Is not the handsome man whom
women prefer for admirers or fer lovers,
unless indeed it Is very silly, very weak,
very vapid women. Who. having 10 self
respect. cannot feel it wounded, and 10
attractlo1z. cannot feel them shghted;
they, poor souls. since they never have
oeen and never hope 70 be sdored- are
quite content 70 become adOrers and en-
ulate the. sunfoxer, which. fast rooted
IN its own quiet garden Plos. follows rs
glorious lord Is he travels from east 70
west, smiling upon q Thousand other