Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-01-20
PRICE ONE CENT
OUR UGLY GIRLS.
EVERY ONE HAS SOMETHING NICE
ABOUT Her.

Frances AIbsrt DosEh,y says Coed
Deal in Their Favor ThsIr Chances
Compared With the ChNncss er Our
More hsndsOms Daughters.
Most ugly girls have something pretty
about them. and the few who know thst
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 10 under favor
able conditions. recall a maiden OF
this stamp who secured handsome and
devoted husband by her very hopeless.
ness of winning his preference 10y 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 q blessod
Inconsistencies of their want of good
looks. Have we not all seen them stand
before mirror noting the effect of
color or q new fashion, with an undis.
guised expression Of admiration on their
iacess-very much like the ugly young
man who ties his oravat and smiles at his
image ia the glass with the comforting
mental comment, Not handsome, but
devilish fasclnatingl"
The statement that ugly girls are gen
orally left to run 10 waste as unappropri.
ated blessings. is not supported 10y evi.
dence. Who has not met wives as ugly
as any old maid in his list OF acqualnt
ances? Ii is safe TO make the brnad
generalization that an ugly girl, all uthei
things icing equal, is likely to have fewri
offers than "a pretty girl, but quite ~
likely TO receive the one offer which vii
make her happy wife. Ii NAV b.
doubted whethera plurality OF lovers is an
unmixed advantage to a girl; one good
lover, the elect man, attracted To hsr by
affinity in It's highest sense, is forever
enough.
But all other things lsave the gift oi
beantyl seldom are equal between tn.
ugly aud the prettry grl: by the natural
law OF compensation the ugly gil h,s
either some inherent or some ucqnited
quality that is lacking in the other
which asserts It's charm as acquaintance
progresses. Beauty only has the start 10
the race.
The ugly girl often has SUPP rior tact
and tinesse. Being obliged TO study hu.
man nature closely in order to get the
most out Of il, she learns 40 well how
aud when TO speak delicate fattery 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 bewItching things
are really beautiful for somebody has
said-l can not give the authority foI
the quotation-that men are vain.
Propinquity ofteuest decides attach
ments OF every kind. II a city man had
to spend a 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
lou Di HldnJ bclitbs w btu OuCc NndIIloA
she has plenty of grit. too, TO protect heI
lawful property aud to distance the
pretty and INSCRIPTIONS dirt who would
try their wiles on him.
1t is questionable, after all, II wo.
mans beauty or homeliness makes much
difference to a man after he has beeu
married TO her a year. Does he even
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 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.