The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-03-26
UGLY GIRLS.
They Make Up In Good Qua,ities VIVA,
They Lack in Looks

UGLY GIRLS.
They Make Up In Good Qua,ities What
| They Lack in Looks.
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. remember, says
writer in Lippincott's Magazine, a
maiden of this stamp who secured a
handsome and devoted husband by her
very hopelessnes of winning his prefer
ence, by the tender humility of her wor-
ship of himself. Living in the same
house, the constant appeal to his chiv-
airy became more powerful 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
| unconsciousness of their want of good
looks. Have we not all seen them
| stand before mirror noting the effect
of color or new fashion, with an un-
! disguised expression of admiration on
| their faces? very much like the ugly
young man who ties his cravat and
! smiles at his image in the glass, with
/ the comforting mental comment: mot
I, handsome, but devilish fascinating"
The statement that "ugly girls are
generally left to run to waste as unap-
propriated blessings" is not supported
! by evidence Who has not met wives
as ugly as any old maid in his list of
! acquaintances? It is safe to make the
, broad generalization that an ugly girl,
all other things being equal is likely to
have fewer offers than a pretty girl,
but quite us likely to receive the one
offer which will make her g. happy
wife. 1t may be doubted whether q
plurality of lovers is an unmixed adj
vanta ge 80 a girl; one good lover, the
elect man, attracted TO her by affinity
in its highest sense, is forever enough.
But all other things (save gift of
beauty seldom are equal between the
ugly and the pretty girl; by the natural
law of compensation the ugly girl has
either some inherent or some acquired
quality that is lacking in the other,
progresses. Beauty only has the start
in the race.
The ugly girl often has superior tact
and fnesse. Being obliged to study
human nature closely in order to
get the most out of it, she learns so
well how and when to speak delicate
hattery that she ends by convincing
the man who scarcely noticed her on
the evening when they were introduced
that the lips which can utter such be-
witching things are really beautiful;
for somebody has said--I cannot give
the authority for the quotation-that
men are vain,
propinquity often decides attachments
Of every kind. If a city man had to
spend winter in Cape God village
with q homely 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 Bos-
ton when he went to Cape Cod.
An ugly girl has firm grip, general
ly speaking, She is not stated with adj
miration Or confident whom she gets it
that it will be perennial, SC 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
tlirts who would try their wiles on him.
1t is questionable, after all, if d wom-
ans beauty O. LONELINESS makes much
difference to a. man after he has been
married to her a year. Does he even
know how she looks? He sees her in
ner nature, and the happiness of the
couple is decided by the effect Of their
inner natures upon each other. Many
man with pretty wife has been in
fatuated with the society of a very
plain looking woman, who possessed
either Intelligence or some power of
adaptation he missed in his partner.