The morning call., 1892-01-03
THE UGLY GIRL.
Ii Is Said That She Often Has Superior Tact
and FilGSSG.

Most ugly girls have something pretty
about them, and the few who know that they
cannot claim even this limited endowment
become pathetic to men Of generous mind,
exciting pity, and we all know what pity is
akin to under favorable conditions. l re-
call maiden of this stamp who secured
handsome and devoted husband by her very
hopelessness OF winning his preference by
the tender humility of her worship of him.
SELF Living in the same house, the constant
appeal to his chivalry became more power
full at last than all the varied charms of
other women he might have won.
Ugly girls, however, generally carry their
consolation with them in blessed uncon-
seriousness of their want of good looks have
we not all seen them stand before mirror
noting the effect of a color or a new fashion.
with an uDdiSguiSed expression Of admra-
ton on their faces very much like the
ugly young man who ties his cTavat and
smiles at his image in the glass with the
comforting mental comment. mot hand
some, but devilsh faScinatlngp
The statement that ugly girls are gen.
orally left to run to waste, as unapprOpri-
ated blessings" is not supported by evil
dence; who has not met wives as ugly as
any old maid in his list Of acquaintance?
1t is safe to make the broad generalization
that an ugly girl, all other things being
pretty girl, but quite as likely 10 receive the
one offer which will make her a happy
wife. 1t may be doubted whether a plu-
rahty Of lovers Is an uumiXed advantage 10
a girl; one good lover, the elect man, at
tracIed To her by affinity in its highest
sense, is forever enough.
But all other things Save the gift Of
beauty seldom are equal between the ugly
and the pretty girl; by the natural law of
compen alton, the ugly girl has either some
inherent or some acquired ability that is
lacking in the other. which asserts its charm
as Acquaintance progresses. Beauty only has
the start in the race.
The ugly girl often has superior tact and
finesSe. Being obliged to study human ma
ture closely in order to get the most out of
it, she learns so well how ana when TO
speak delicate fiattery that she ends by con-
vincing the man who scarcely noticed her
on the evening when they were introduced.
that the lips which can utter such bewitch-
ing things are really beautiful; for some
body has said cannot give the authority
for the quotation-that men are vain.
Propinquity oftenest decides attachments
of every kind; If city man had TO spend a
winter in Cape Cod village with h0mey
but pleasant girl, he would be more likely
to find himself in love with her by spring
than with the pretty and pleasant girl he
left in Boston when lie went to Cape Cod
An ugly girl has firm grip, generally
speaking; she is not stated with admiration,
or confident when she gets it that it will be
perennial so she does not let chances give
her the slip, after the fashion of many
bellies. When once married she has plenty
of grit, too, to protect her lawful property
and TO distance the pretty and INSCRIPTIONS
firts who would try their wiles on him.
1t is questionable. after all, if a woman's
beauty or LONELINESS makes much differ
ence to a man after he has been married to
her year; does he ever know how she
looks? He sees her inner nature, and the
happiness of the couple is decided by the
effect of their inner natures upon each
ether. Many man with aFpretty wife has
been infatuated with the society of very
plain looking woman who possessed either
intelligence or some power of adaptation he
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