Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-11-11
A PRETTY GIRLS CHAT.
HER DIAGNOSIS OF LOOKS DIRE cTED AT
HER-HoMELY GIRLS FORMIDABLE.
A New York letter to the St. Louis Re.

HER-HoMELY GIRLS FORMIDABLE. :.
A New York letter to the ST.. Louis Re.
public, says:
Charming was the girl with whom I
walked down Broadway yesterday. She
was the sort of pretty girl who could stand
BY a rustic fence with roses in her hair, q
milk pail in her hand and all that, and
who is simply distracting when she gets
herself into tailor-made dress, draws her
eye.b rows straight and carries her round
chin haughtily over her collar. OF course,
everybody looked at us. Her it was they
looked at, bat was with her and noticed
it. She didn't. Finally I said: Cyril"
have righted the horrid wrong her parents
did her-"Byril, do you know every one is
looking at your
every one?" she asked placidly.
"Yes,n
sThe women, toof"
s'Some of them"
ST thought the women would look, too.
because of my English tilt"
She referred to the angle at which her
hat was set. The new angle by which the
back trimming appears to toboggan down
over the front along the bridge of ones
nose. pondered block or so, then I
ventured: $50 the men always look at
your"
"Oh, yes" said she, simply.
81 should thirK il would embarrass
you"
''Oh, dear. no; it would embarrass me if
they didn't" Then she went on in unex
pected confidence. II wonder sometimes
what it will seem like to grow old and ugly
or even to get just uninteresting, SO that no
one will look at one again.
"Again?'
''Yes, a man looks once-that is, he sees
you-then he looks again. That's because
he wants to see you again."
'Isn't that impertinent?''
sOh, no; if he looks three times it's i'm.
pertinent, and if he looks only once it's a
slight, bat he should look twice. of course
every one looks at me twice." she added,
but nobody would dare to look at me three
times.''
Iquite believe both statements.
"How do you know they look?"
''Oh, feel it,
''Do you ever see them?"
"Often, but never look"
ssWhat is the difference?'
''All in the world.''
Just then she bowed slightly. The man
had evidently almost braced himself for a
cut and the relief was apparent, for he bow
ed as if his life had just been saved.
sPoor fellow! Didn't you know him ct
tirst9" asked.
81 had to see him before ! looked at
him." she said calmly, "and I could not
bow, of course, until bad looked"
Now, there ia secret out. This placid
stare girls giva you is just 'seeing" you as
they see the house signs and letter boxes
II they see they know you, then they look
nj hor G.
ease while you wait. It will doubtless ba
all right.
81 know people look at me-" she went
on. 'Most girls do. It is the same way,
you know, when they don't look at you 1
never ride in car if q girl gets in that
takes the looking away from me. I feel SO
lonely and miserable"
'That doesn't often happen" I urged
rapturoEsly, for adore this Byril.
"Oh, no." she admitted; "but no matter
how pretty one is, or how well dressed,
which is more important, one cannot be az
attractive as the right sort of a homely girl
is"
l begged for further information.
There is sort. nobody can tell what it
is. but one might just as we'll get out of the
car at once"
"Do tell me more about her."
sits go hard. She has nice hands al
most always and sometimes she carries her
gloves so you can see how clear the color is
and how beautiful the nails are That's
very trying, because SO few girls can carry
their gloves. TheD. she's homely-oh,
very! Bnt she may have fine eyes. Bus
then, again, she may not. Her teeth are
always white and nice, but sometimes they
are big. Her complexion is always good
IL may De high,colored or dead pale, but
the skin is good. Sometimes she has flne
Lgure, but very often she is 60 bony that
you wonder if the men are mad. Some
times she is tall and sometimes she ia short
but she's always homeiy, and when she
gets on car or com es by in the street a
sort of breeze. or air, or color and tempera.
ture, or something, comes along too-and,
as say. you may "a well get out of the