Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-08
'ELko. NEVADA, ruEspA Y, MARcH: & Sc
UGLY cIRIs.r
They Make Up In, Good cuaiities wha,
They Lack In Looks.

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. i. Iremember, says
a writer in ,Lippincott's hIagazine,
maiden OF this stamp who secured
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 themin 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 un-
disguised expression of admiration on
theif faees2 very much like. the ugly
young man who ties his craTat and
smiles at his image in. the glass, with
the comforting mental comment: Not
handsome, but devilish fascinatingl'',
The statement that :'ugly girls are
generally left to run to waste as unap-
propriated blessingsn is not. supported
by evidence. Who hes 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 arpretty girl,
but quite as likely to receive the one
offer which will make her happy
wife. It may be doubted whether n
plurality OF. lovers is an nnmixed ad-.
vantage TO a girl; one good lover, the;
elect man, attracted to her by affinity
in it's 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,
which asserts it's charm as acquaintance
progresses. Beauty only has the start
In the race.
The ugly girl often has superior tact
and fnesse. Being Obliged to study
human natare closely in order to.
get the most out of it, she learns 80
we'll how and when to SPEAK delicate
hatsery 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. he
witch1ng things are really beautiful;
for some body has saia--I cannot give
the authority for the quotation-that
men are vain.
Prepinquity often decides attachments
of every kind. If o city man. had to
spend winter in Cape God village
with a homely but pleasant girl he
would pc more likely to find himself in
love with her by spring thar with the
pretty and pleasant girl he left in Bos-
ton when he went to Cape Cod.
An ugly girl has q firm grip, general
ny speaking, She is not sated with nd
miration or confident when she gets it
that it viii be perennial, SO she does
not let chances give her the slip aftcr
the fashion of many bellies. When
once married she has plenty of grit, too
So protect herr LAWFUL property and to
distance the pretty and unscrupuiDus
flirts who would try their - Hes on him
1t is Questionable, hfsnE all, if yynr1-
.:n's beauty or homclincss makes iauch
aiffcrchds 10 a man after lie has been
rarried TO, her o year. Does he even
'snow now She looks? He Secs li0r in
ner nature, and the happiness OF the
;eoupleis decided by the effect of their
inner natures upon each other. Many
| 4man with q ;prsttytwife. has been in.
fatuated with the society Of very
plain looking womaii, who possessed
sitlrer intelligence or some power OF
adaptation he, missed In his partner.
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