, 1891-04-21

bargain. and If she has Est 4 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
itaring and appropriating those manly
fashions that used to be held peculiar to
the a ser sex say, if Missiles jests
We're serious this would be pretty near
their meaning, but we will hope they
We're only the ~eNtravagauzas Of a gay
young girl, and hope that the happy
middIIng' between her own and her
mothers Gchemes of salvation remains
the truth both as to theory and practice.
But, after all, do men best love a de-
m~Onstrative or a cold wDman We have
always bsen told that the latter is the
Case, but as one looks around a ballroom,
for instance, or "A 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 a girl who sell
dom opens her mouth and only family
surs its classic lines IN "A smilet She
whose clear blue eyes seem as far away
and p~assionless AS the sky. and whose
fingers rest upon yours a. 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 ars
always parted 10 show teeth like the
grains upon An ear Of white corn, and
whose rose tipped fingers close in a Co
quettish grasp upon those OF her caya-
Her, while she half whispers some
d~rDllery into his carr 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 cNclaims in i~nfautile
sincerity, "Oh, please let me sit on the
box seat and drive just u little tiny bit
Of the way" or, perhaps: Let me light
your cigarette, dol / 50 love to get "a
Whit Of nice tobacco, and-won't you
telll Mind, never. never, never, Well. 1
do sometimes steal one out Of my broth
er's ROOM, and 20 away by myself and
smok it And then she allows herself
20 be persuaded 10 tako one now, and
smokes it with much aploInb and no i'll
results,
Now which Of these is the most sue
cessful girl Of our periodf Which is the
n the mel like the best?
asked three Of the men Of my nc
quaiutance. The first namely replied,
The one who is most like you" to
which ] retorted;
Neither one is like me or ever was. |
was brought up in the old fashioned
way-under my parents wing-and was
simply u jeiHe fHs when they married
me-"
The next man said: II like them all; |
admire pretty girls Of all sorts and con-
ditions. and the one | am with at the
moment il the best one"
The third expert replied: Il can only
answer you by coufessing the theory |
have slowly built up out OF my own ex-
perience. A man is not so constituted
rs to be satisfied with one woman; he
needs a different companion at different
epochs of his life, or even in the differ
ent moods of each epoch. That is the
reason l have never married. How can
l tell that the calm, chilly and uuap-
proachable woman who Just now is my
delight would please me zen years hence?
Or If sacrifice the present taste to the
future necessity. nov can | tell what
sort of woman | shall prefer in ten
years. II il really "A most harassing
question"
81 don't see how you can settle it ex-
cept by going to Utah, said /, sympa-
thetically.
True. l have considered the subject
most seriously, but there are certain i'm
pediments.' A man may have many OBJ
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 dway- 20 bc of
with the old love before | am ON with
the new, and | shudder at the thought
Of being permanently fetterri To any Of
the past objects OF my fancy. am al.
ready tired Of them, and il | 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
m~osphere."
Then you prefer an undemonstrutive
woman exclaimed |, eagerly.
Il do to-day" was the reply.
Not satisfied with these researches l
pursued them further, until became a
perfect Sphynx, p~ropounding my conun-
drum to all corners, and never finding
the Edipus who could solve 1t satisfac-
torily until. after consulting many men
and some women, and making my own
observations at all sorts Of times and
places, 1 came 10 the conclusion that the
question Is too complicated to be settled
by n yes or n 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-
teFs Of his sex. AS u general thing a
very young maj setting out in life with
some sort of ideal in his mind, not gem
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 so little
and looks SO little and does So little
that she remains ~inscrutable, but his
fancy invests her with all sorts of lofty
Projections of mind and heart, and if he
fails to ous her sympathy or emotions
he meekly concludes that he is so far be-
meath her level that she cannot descend
to his feelings.
This kind of Endymiou fancy for the
moon does not generally terminate in
marriage, or, II it does, sad is Endymion's
waking when ht discovers that his god.
dess is only moonshine and his wife is q
cold, hard, narrow woman who does not
show emotion Of any sort, simply be-
she does o feel any, and does not
even know her own deficiencies.