The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-09-20
WHAT WOMEN LIKE MEN.

The casual, every day accomplish
ments of man have much to do with
women's liking; and first OF all comes
savoir fuire. He may or may not be
what is rather vulgarly described as
"society man" yet he must understand
and be familiar with the myriad little
usages that form society's unwritten
law. To be at ease in any set, to be
equal to emergencies, to carry off an
awkward position with urbanity and
and perfect selfpossession-this facul-
ty wins anstinted admiration from
woman. And then there are things
that 60 with this-knowledge of the
proper thing to do, the little courte-
sizes, the delicate and tactful attentions
that mean everything and nothing, the
ability to order dinner properly, to
make things go off smoothly, to carry
out a plan without blunder or jar,
the carriage ready at the proper mo-
ment, the flowers specially arranged,
the right seats at the theatre, every
thing foreseen, every possible occur
renee provided for, every want anti
cipated, every contretemps avoided.
These are all unimportant in them
selves, yet in the mass they never fail
to create a strong impression in a wo-
man for woman hates blunders and
will trust man in great things if she
sees that he has a genius for making
small things 60 off we'll. 49,.
But the man who has the gift of in
timacy can give it, and in giving it he
can bind her to him as by links steel.
Who shall describe that wonderful
gift of intimacy, that miracle in hui
man intercourse, that are blending of
subtle intelligence, Of exquisite tact,
of wonderful sympathy? There are
men who have it and when wo-
mans acquaintance with such man
is only half an hour old, she will be
telling things that she has never told
to brother or sister or mother or hus
band or even to her nearest woman
friend; and she will tell them-these
intimate personal things-with abso-
lutte unconsciousness, so natural, so
simple is it to give her confidence to
this stranger who has laid his naked
mind to hers, who every word is su-
preme expression Of complete intelli-
gence anticipating and illumining her
hidden thought, and answering each
mood and each emotion as though he
were her second self. Afterwards,
when they have parted, it comes over
her with sudden shockthat she has
violated every one of the conventions,
that she has laid bare her secret soul,
that she has been reckless, unwoman-
ly-almost immodcst. She is in an ag-
ony of doubt as to what he must be
thinking OF her, and she breads to meet
him for second time. But she al
ways does meet him, and in a moment
the spell is again upon her; and her
doubts and questioning melt from out
her mind at the sound of that voice
which thrills her so profoundly, that
voice which has the quality of violin,
penetrating, tender, and with linger-
ing caress somewhere within its tones.
She hesitates no more; for she has
met the man who understands, the
man whom women never can forget.
There lives no woman who could not
make the words of Emerson her creed:
"When I meet man whose mind is
like my own but stronger, then be-
come his very slave"
But women like man of whom the
world has heard, who has done some
thing that has made him known out
side the sphere of private life, whose
name stands for achievement and Gre
alton. A man like this bears with
him always passport to woman's
favour. First of all, his interest in
her, if he shows such interest, graft
fies her vanity, her emulation. She
loves to think that one whom many
seek has sought out her. She tri-
umphs in the thought. But after
wards. if he really enters into her in
ner life, her feeling is nobler one
than this. If she loves him, her love
will have in it that element of the ma
ternal without which no true woman's
love is ever quite complete. lie is
hers, and she thrills with his success,
and tries to comfort him in IBIS de-
feats. She hates his enemies vindic-
lively. She longs to help him, to be
his inspiration. And if he can make
her feel that she has 80 entered into
his life as to be part of it, that it is
from her her love that he draws his
hope, his strength, his courage, then
he has given her a draught Of flattery
80 delicious, so exquisite, that she
could die from the very joy of it. But
almost sweeter stilla are those moments
when, perhaps, he is depressed and ill
or half disheartened, this man who
faces the world and is strong to all be-
besides herself, for then he makes the
one supreme appeal to her very deep
est, tenderest feelings, and there comes
over her great wave of maternal ten
derness, passion of self-devotion, and
as she mothers him her whole woman's
nature is stirred to its very depths.