Arizona republican., 1891-05-24

der the present system-that is, If Mis- sie's tests had any foundation of truth. the girl is expected to make her own bargain, and if she has not large fort une to offer as an attraction she is to exhibit her own attractiveness not only in all purely feminine ways, but in i'm itating and appropriating those manly fashions that used to be held peculiar to the coarser sex. I say, if Missiles jests were serious this would be pretty near their meaning, but we will hope they were only the extravaganzas of gay young girl, and hope that the ''happy middling" between her own and her mothers schemes of salvation remains the truth both as to theory and practice
 But, after all, do men best love de- monstrative or cold woman? We have always been told that the latter is the case, but as one looks around ballroom, for instance, or reception, or any col lection of young people where there is liberty of movement and choice, which class of girls and young women do we See most surrounded, most often upon the floor, invited to the box seat of the drag or the stern seat in the boat? Is it the fair white statue of girl who sell dom opens her mouth and only faintly stirs it's classic lines in a smile? She whose clear blue eyes seem as far away and passionless as the sky, and whose fingers rest upon yours as coldly and lightly as the petals of a water lily? Or is it the gay, laughter loving, curly, pink checked little thing whose fresh lips are always parted to show teeth like the grains upon an ear of white corn, and whose rose tipped fingers close in CO., quettish grasp upon those of her cava- Her, while she half whispers some drollery into his ear2 Or is it the gushing girl who taps her foot upon the floor and cries: "Oh, this music makes me wild! If you don't ask me to dance this very minute I'll go by myself" or who exclaims in infantile sincerity, "Oh, please let me sit on the box seat and drive just little tiny bit of the way" or, perhaps: "Let me light your cigarette, do! I so love to get whiff of nice tobacco, and-won't you tell? Mind, never, never, never! Well, l do sometimes steal one out of my broth CTS room, and go away by myself and smoke it." And then she allows herself to be persuaded to take one now, and smokes it with much aplomb and no ill results.
 Now which of these is the most sue cessful girl of our period? Which is the one the men like the best?
 asked three of the men of my &C., quaintance. The first namely replied, "The one who is most like you," to which 1 retorted:
 "Neither one is like me or ever was. 1 was brought up in the old fashioned way-under my parents wing-and was simply a jc me file when they married me-"
 The next man said: "I like them all; 1 admire pretty girls of all sorts and con- ditions, and the one l am with at the moment is the best one."
 The third expert replied:' "I can only answer you by confessing the theory l have slowly built up out of my own ex- perience. A man is not so constituted as to be satisfied with one woman; he needs different companion at different epochs of his life, or even in the differ ent moods of each epoch. That is the reason have never married. How can tell that the calm, chilly and unap- proachable woman who just now is my delight would please me ten years hence? Or if sacrifice the present taste to the future necessity, how can I tell what sort of woman I shall prefer in ten years? It is really most harassing question"
 "I don't see how you can settle it ex- cept by going to Utah." said I, sympa- thetically.
 "True. have considered the subject most seriously, but there are certain i'm pediments. A man may have many ob- jects of admiration. but don't believe he'd be very comfortable with more than one wife. Both taste and reason, or rather instinct, lead me always to be off with the old love before am on with the new, and I shudder at the thought of being permanently fettered to any of the past objects of my fancy. l am al- ready tired of them, and if I could not get away should soon loathe the dear creatures. Besides, doubt if the stately garden lily which just now is the flower of my fancy grows in Utah. Her pure white petals would shrink from the at mosphere."
 "Then you prefer an undemonstrative ,x,o,,onr ax,loi,nal aoorar1u
 "I do today" was the reply.
 Not satisfied with these researches 1 pursued them further, until became a perfect Sphynx, propounding my conun- drum to all corners, and never finding the Edipus who could solve it satisfac- torily until, after consulting many men and some women, and making my own observations at all sorts of times and places, came to the conclusion that the question is too complicated to be settled by yes or a no, or, indeed, by any posi- tive and dogmatic reply.
 My cynical friends confession that at different times he liked different styles of women, and no one style satisfied him, might be truthfully echoed by three-quar- ters of his sex. As general thing a very young man setting out in life with some sort of ideal in his mind, not gen. orally copied from his sisters, finds it most nearly realized in the statuesque and garden lily style of girl. He does not know much about her, for she says 90 little and looks so little and does so little that she remains inscrutable, but his fancy invests her with all sorts of lofty