The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-02-10

] 81 Win Your vile upon 4 SUI 1rct III
which there is danger OF woun,ling her
/ feelings; in fact. do not i'>t at all. be
cause women are deficient in the sense
OF humor \ woman likes a man to
m Ike Il confident OF her. tell about his
club llir. of his men friends and their
pccuiariticS and eNc'llrncics. But the
one thing that annoys her more than
! anything else is to hear the beauty and
attractions of another woman discussed.
particularly if that woman is differ
cnt type from herself. Ifa man must
talk about the graccs of another
woman. the onl V way he can reconcile
bis wife to listening is to assure her
that she resembles that particular
woman in an astonishing degree. Then
she is all attention.
The ideal man. So women confess.
taScinatcs them; that is to say, women
arc alurcd t. him 10y some powerful
influence. What that influence may
be depends upon the age of the woman
and her intellectual. spiritual, and ps-
thctic development. Burke says that
the men who succeed in being most
agreeable with women are made of
civility and taischood. 1t is probably
the fact that nearly all women, without
regard to age or mental attainments,
like biz men,-''a hroad-shouldered
man, with dark, wavy hair, gray eyes,
prominent chin. dark mustache, and
large, white hands" One thing is GER
tain in this matter Of feminine tascina-
tion,-fat is fatal. The man whose ribs
are we'll covered with adipose tissue
had better give up the chase, if, indeed,
his constitutional misfortune has not
kept him out of it altog,ther Let
him remember thu ridiculous figure
Faistatt cuts in the Merry Wives of
Winlsor. and recall the fat and flmuuS
Gihbon. who's. greatness could not pre-
vent him from appearing ridiculous
when he was stru .gliny to his feet after
having made an unsuccessful proposal
of marriage. 1t is true that we occa-
sionally see lat husbands, who seem,
from outward appea rancrs at least, to
l,, h, l., = =
\ careful investigation, however, will
| disclose the fact that all these men be-
came fat after marriage, and were gen
| teelIv cadaverous be.ore this epoch in
their lives.
A woman likes an air OF mystery
about a man,-the sort OF man who i'm
presses YOU with the idea that he un-
derstands everything and sees every
thing, even if he says nothing. She
likes to be impressed with the idea that
he is salways eping his best in reserve;
Il man that has the kind of nerve and
nonchalan"e that makes YOU think,
even if all the women in the room APP
parently dislike him. that he could
make them all fall dead in love with
him, if he really cared to have them.
| The younc impressionable woman likes
a man best of whom she is little
afraid. She is charmed by his suroT
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renders at once if there is something
mysterious about him, some sadness
that you cannot flthom. Older women
give their allegiance to the deliberate
man. Perhaps that is one reason why
the sex likes big men, large bodies
moving slowly. Little men. like little
dogs, are apt to hc >nappy and unrea-
sonablc. Deliberation pre- -supposes
completeness. and is Indicative of power
and strength. The deliberate man, in
going through the social offices of life,
is not likely to be awkward or unfor-
tunatc, and is restful and comfortable
| for woman to 90 out with He is 4
good listener and generally Il good
talker This is the kind of man who
ne~cr hurrieS and never misses the
train, and hence. in the feminine mind,
is considered phenomenon. The we'll
balanced, consistent. hrainy individual
who is invariably master of himself,
master Of he situation is master of the
womans kingdom as well. Women
are not jealous of mans past love
affairs: in fact, according to the cur
rent notion. they rather admire Don
Juan, One woman frankI Iy says: The
kind of sturdy virtues that are recon-
mended as desirable in the husband a
woman should admire are extremely
tiresome, and would rather he com.
mitted every sin in the list ofiniquities
that belong to men than do one narrow
petty, womanish thing, or mind the
things that are really none of his af
r,irs. do hate a man that either hen
peck> on allows himself to be hen
ptcked.
AS to disposition, Il woman prefers
: to have man go into Il perfectly un
; reasonable rage twice a day, in 4 whole
!. some, mannish way. than to fret over
-, IL -
: the av, rage ideal man still wears :
: certain mcdi;rval cast; he is conceived
> rs n muscular daredevil. reckless, ire
: siStibl", Il universal conqueror otftmal,
+ hearts. School girls adorc Il hanlsom,
! man, who accepts all the honor they
can heap upon him rs il it were hi:
: royal right; and the test of masculin,
: beauty with some of them nt least i