Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-27


Deal Ia Their Fnvor-Th.ir Chances
Compared with the Chances of Our
More Handsome Daughters.
Most ugly girls have something pretty
about them, and the few who know that
they can not claim even this limited en-
dowment become pathetic to men of
generous mind, exciting pity, and we all
know what pity is akin to under favor.
able conditions. l recall a maiden Of
this stamp who secured a handsome and
devoted husband by her very hopeless
ness OF winning his preference by the
tender humility of her worship of him
self. Living in the same house, the con-
slant appeal to his chivalry 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 a blessed
Inconsistencies Of their want of good
looks. Have we not all seen them stand
before mirror noting the effect of a
color or new fashion, with an undis-
guised expression Of admiration on their
aces?-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 handsome, but
devilish fascinating!"
The statement that ugly girls are gen.
orally left to run to waste as unappropri-
nted blessings, is not supported by evil
dence. Who has not met wives as ugly
as any old maid in his list OF acquaint-
ances? 1t 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 as
likely to receive the one offer which will
make her a happy wife. 1t may be
doubted whether plurality Of lovers is an
unmixed advantage to girl; one good
lover, the elect man, attracted 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 prettry girl: by the natural
law of compensation the ugly girl has
either some inherent or some acquired
quality 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 tinesse. Being obliged to study hui
man nature closely in order to get the
most out Of it, she learns so well now
and when to speak delicate fattery that
she ends by convincing the man who
scarcely noticed her on the evening
yybep thew wara introdpca6 tbat tho Inv.
which can utter such bewitching things
IRE really beautiful; for somebody has
said-l can not give the authority for
the quotation-that men are vain.
Propinquity oftenest decides attach
ments OF every kind. If city man had
to spend winter in Cape Cod village
with a 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, generally
speaking. She is not stated with admi-
ration or confident when she gets it that
it Will be perennial, so she does not let
chances give her the slip after the fash
ion Of many bellies. When once married
she has plenty Of grit. too. to protect her
lawful property and to distance the
pretty and INSCRIPTIONS tiirt who would
try their wiles on him.
1t is questionable, after all, if wo-
mans beauty or homeliness makes much
difference to man after he has been
married to her a year. Does he even
know how she looks7 He sees her inner
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 infatuated
with the society Of very plain looking
woman, who possessed either intelligence
or some power of adaptation he missed
in his partner.-Frances Albert Doughty,
in Lippincott.