Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-12-14
WHAT DO WOMEN LIKE BEsrs
Hell.known conversationalist an

A
ot the world, who prided bimseli
na - ms accurate knowledge of the
90 coy was once asked what he con-
1 s'darsd the average woman best loved
80 do He replied, ITO influence
man" He was probably not far wrong.
yI,nroen have an inborn love OF innu-
sncino others, as they have an inoorn
1--we often of pretty children, OF pet
doos and of good-natured husbands.
Tbsy delight in reclaiming the sup
nosed irreclaimable, in painting tne
| Hack sheep white, IN transforming the
donbtful sinner into the undouhteo
| sa;nt Men, as q race, have by no
means the same worship for influence,
Thav are much more content to leave
t,ings as they find them than are wo-
men The average woman's intense
iove of Influence shows itself IN a thou-
s,nd ways. She delights in influencing
avan a thing without life such, for IN
stance as room. She comes to stay
in a motel, occupies an apartment that
is lost to all the proprieties, that is
hard as to chimney piece, colo as 70
walls. offensive in carpets, immodest II
oIaooraphs. an utter rascal OF room-
What does she do? Why, she inIu-
ences that room with photographs,
leads il to better things with rugs anu
obairbscks, breaks down Its harshness
of sspect with overs, makes 1t posi-
tiveIy attractive with books and mex
nncks. A man could have furnished u
with his favorite pipe and been amply
satisfied. Nearly all good women pos
sess this passion for influence, and SO
do MANY bad ones, but men as gen
eraI ruIe are inclined to be unconscious
of. or TO ignore, the fact. They ieeI IT.
| but they do not know 1t. bad man
who marries good woman Is very
much more likely TO become good IMAM
TO make his wife bad, for the influence
exercised by women is far more subtle
thau the influence exercised by men,
ana in subtlety lies its strength. For
even the weakest people ars apt TO oo'
iect to being influenced. 1t strikes
/ them as mira dig, as humiliatlng, as
! slightly lowering, and when they Know
what is happening they struggle-they
kick feebly against the pricks. Women
seem instinctively TO be aware OF this,
I and hence their subtlety. What
people like best, they are, OF
course, always striving after, and
certainly if we look around we cannot
remain unaware of the passion for
| influence possessed by nearly all wo-
men. Sometimes tins passion brings
its curse and punishment with 10.
Nothing can be more painful than to
! see an exhibition of desire without any
| power to back it up. The weak vo-
man who strives weakly to impress her
personality upon one stronger than
herself provides unconsciously the
material of q tragedy at which 1t IS
dreary to assist as spectator. Such
tragedy is as common in life as the
clouds are common in the sky, or the
fearful dewdrop on the morning
flowers. And the weak woman will
never be convinced of her weakness.
She gets perhaps 10 like personality
that, strange TO say objects strongly
or thinks she objects strongly-to
most of the character details which
make mp that personality, and, de-
libsrstely unaware OF her weakness,
she begins to tinker. She falls IN love
with tine paper ON the walls, and forth
with tries 10 cover it with little pictures
poorly painted by her own fair hands.
She struggles to impress herself upon
that which has impressed her, and, not
contented wi h being influenced, in
sists upon trying TO influence. She
will not understand that the person
who influences you is by no means
the most likely person for you to IL
fIuence. This sort of woman is greatly
to be pitied. She is the turning
squire. IN the Page of life, and hopes
all tine time that she is recovering the
ground instead of futilely gyraiing in
a fixed circle Then there is the wo-
man who is influential because she is
SO unselfconscious. She does not know
what she is dong and for that
reason, perhaps, she does it the
more effectively. Influence emanates
imperceptibly from her The irritable
husband snccumbs to her calm good
nature. The passionate lover bows the
neck beneath the shining yoke of her
purity. She is influential when she
only pours out tea charmingly, and her
very mode of dress shows visible signs
of temperament wbich-unlike the
serpent tree-seizes to save and not to
slay. No wonder women love to inliu-
ence more than they love to do any,
thing else. The little girl is trying TO
influence her hard featured, ,implacabls-
bodied wooden coll when she clothes
Its thin and many cornered wooden
limbs in radiant garments of new
Partisan cut, touches up its cheeks
with the pigments that find home in
the shilling paint box, and twists Its
socketed arms into strange beckoniug,
defiant, or pleading attitudes. TIE
schoolrom miss tries her prentice hand
upon the rough schoolboy brother, or,
more often still, upon the rough
schoolboy brothers beloved chum, who
ss likely rs not meets her for the first
time, wooden doll all corners, parts
from her n rather wax parsonage who
has been subjected to not little melt
Ing before certain msidenly fires. The
girl emancipated from the schoolroom
soon finds a lover to influence, and
later the wife is unwearied in her eff
forts to leave some impreXs upon the
character of her husband. Yes, prob
ably the conversationalist who prided
himself upon his knowledge of women
was not far wrong. They read, or do
not read, are hardy or gentle, kind or
cruel, sentimental or practical as the
case may be. But, depend upon it, the
, aversse woman loves better than any,
thing else to influence that complex
creature, that solid enigma, that being
whom women can so frequently make
or mar, imam, foolish" the
adjective, male readers, we only insert
IT for the sake of the quotation-''foo!-
ish man"