The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02
CARRIE CARELB s
Maintains That Woman Rules the
World Through Mans Vanity.
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New YORK. Oct. IA highly entertain-
! ing controversy is raging in one Of the En-
glish papers as to whether men or women
are the most vain. OF course all the men
| are protesting that whatever be th5 vices of
the male sex, vanity is unknown among
| them. The ladies naturally take the pre-
cisely opposite view; and should not be a
woman If / did not claim that 1t is they
who are in the right. Ninety
nine out of every 100 men are vain
| Of their personal appearance. no matter
whether they are comedy OF homely In
fact the majority OF ugly men go through
life absolutely unconscious of their UGH
ness and convinced on the contrary that
they are remarkably 20 looking. No one
treats them with dls;ourtesy for neglect
in consequence Of the unlovely aspect
which they present; no one is uE-
generous enough to intimate to them
that they are homely, and fire.
quenty they are more successful with our
ssK than the handsome msn. For somehow
or another we women have kind of lilo
z oRl and morbid prediction for mons
strosiEies Of every kind, both human and
animal, animate aud lnauimate. How
other wise is it possible to account for the
love which some of the falrest among ne
lavish upon the mos puny, ridiculous and
ill-favored looking men, dogs and curios9
On the other hand it Is almost impossible
for woman to be vain. But few of us
possess absolute physical perfection. The
beauty of one feature is generally counter
balanced by the defect Of another, and we
are forever filed with app ehensions lest
The critics belonging 70 our own sex-gen-
orally our dearest friends should discover
these weak points and publish them to the
world at large. And even in cases where
we rightly or wrongly believe that we pos
sess faultless beauty, there ID always the
feeling that every day that passes
carries away with it 80 much of
the youthful bloom OF our loneliness.
never to return. We jealousy watch
whether the attentions lsvished upon US by
our masculine admirers are not diminishing
in warmth, in enthusiasm and in Impress
ment, and il we imagine that they are be-
coming cooler we are at once convinced
that it is because our beauty is on the wane.
and that some fairer ami fresher star las
appeared upon the horizon. We are never
vain, because even the most lovely
among us are never sure Of our superiority.
For vanity implies consciousness of supe-
riority.
AS for those of us who are not possessed
of extraordinary and striking beauty. we
are speedily taught, and in a very unpleas-
ant, ungenerous and unfrendly manner.
that we have nothing OF which to be vain
Although taxed with heartlessness and
lack of consideration for the feelings Of our
fellow creatures, we seldom. IL ever, make a
man feel by our behavior toward him
that be is plain and perhaps down.
right ugly. Man, however, has no such in
tultive tact and gentle courtesy, aud If
there is really beautiful woman on the
scene, the others less favored by nature are
quickly made to feel by the neglect and the
absence Of attention, and sometimes the
downright courtesy. TO which they are sub
jeoted by the men present, that they have
nothing about which to be proud.
Another proof that men are far vainer
than women is TO be found In the fact that
it is always possible and easiest TO influence
a man through bis vanity, which is his
weakest aud most vulnerable point, whereas
our weakest point is our heart, There is
scarcely anything which a man cannot be
persuaded to do by appealing to his vanity,
and we may find here in the explanation Of
many odd marriages betweenun attract
i've and poor yet clever girls on the