The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-19
THE GIRL THAT WINS.

| Read About Her, and Then See if You
Possess Her characteristics.
| A pretty, prominent and elderly married
woman addressed drawing room of clever
people the other evening on the subject OF
beauty as an agent in the advancement OF
her sex
After enumerating the advantages OF
personal loneliness and the hindrances OF
homely exterior she said long experience
| and close observation went to prove the
superior successes of the plain featured
women in matrimony as in other fields OF
| feminine enterprise. OF course, in num-
bers they are utterly disproportionate, but
even allowing for that vast difference the
ugly girl has things much her own way.
To get at sound basis for conclusions it
is necessary, she said, to take powerless
maidens from whom to argue.
Watch the careers of two bellies and wall
flowers from the opening of the race The
butterflies invariably start out hampered
by false notions of tributes due their
charms. Not one in the list is ever quite
able to resist putting her bright eyes
against the adamant strength of money
and the exalted range of talent in an early
struggle for place. She has no means of
exactly gauging her powers, and by over
estimation often comes to grief.
Seldom, indeed, is pretty girl taught
the prudence of grasping opportunities
nursing chances and making the sow's ear
into some sem blance Of silk purse Her
comeliness she regards as a magic lamp,
only needing bit of Furnishing to pro-
duce the fairy prince, palace and all, in
flash. Of what use, then, the dull plod-
ding. imperative for her plain sister? Alas!
the fimsy little structure is built on the
sand, waiting one strong wave of reality to
knock the fimsy dreams into a cooked hat.
Look about you and count the number
of faded, thwarted beauties you know who
are imbittered dependents, or else late in
life have picked up broken stick in the
shape Of a partner to help disguise their
crippled vanity. In fact, so frequently is
this the case that between sixteen and
twenty-six only extraordinary virtue or
talent ever saves belle from grievous fol-
ly in her aspirations.
Parents, friends and f1atterers only ag-
gravate the case, foretelling the famous
marriage that never takes place, and dis
couraglng honest efforts to enter on any
serious business. Beguiled into believing
nature has graced her with rare superior
ity, what wonder she despises her legiti-
mate sphere and yearns after the unattain
able? And, sadly enough, those dear, de-
sirable parties she is trained to covet have
a trick of loving Cinderella in the sum-
mer time, and when the serious business
of marriage is preached hieing away to
wed the proud sister
The old, old story of that light hearted
hare, deluded by undue confidence in his
natural speed, frisking away the priceless
moments, while dingy, unlovely mud
turtle crawls VIGOROUSLY up to the win
ming post. Clear sightedness and thor
ough understanding of the situation is to
be halfway to the goal, and this is what
the wall flower has in her favor. No rosy
spectacles confuse her Wis ION, no sugar
plums jade her appetite; sweet decisions
never lull the sense of uty, and who will |
say she is without the trump card?-nlus-
trated American.