Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-01

worthy of being called wishes; disap-
pointed with life without having
tasted anything, owing to lack of ex-
perience, void Of passion, void of af-
lection, they unite the temper of
spOilt children with the dullness of
aged skeptics."
Daudet pictures for the world as
the model of all wifely and uueenly
virtues none other that the ex-Queen
of Naples, who figured in his novel
''Rois en- Exile"
This ideal queen in exile's late hus-
band, who was a great fool, accord
ing to M. Daudet, used to be very
much afra1G of her. She was the
"better horse" and of a dashing, val
liant temper, as her conduct in the
siege of Gaetal bore witness, and she
regarded the ex-king as silly, not to
be considered save on state occasions.
He, poor man, would go to the Made
leine to pray for his handsome spouse
when she went to learn bareback
riding at the Hippodrome. Did Dau-
Diet have in mind a species Of the new
woman?
There is no accounting for tastes in
woman; she has her part to play
equally with man. One of the most
remarkable traits in the feminine or
ganism is the tendency of women to
fall in love with men whose plainness
of feature is obvious to the point of
positive ugliness, and in all ages and
countries this tendency has been
strikingly demonstrated.
Mirabeau, one of the leading spirits
of the French revolution, man whose
face was hideously pockmarked and
whose figure was short and unwieldy,
exercised a fascination over the fair
sex which was little short Of marvellous.
1t is said, indeed, that no woman
could resist this Caliban of politics,
whose only attractiveness lay in his
undoubted gift Of eloQuence.
After his death his rooms were
found to contain numberless love let
ters from all sorts and conditions of
women, many of whom declared their
passion in hyperbolic strain. And yet
Mirabeau was SO ugly that his hide
BUSINESS passed into a byword in the
streets of Paris at the period in
question.
Kipling described the American girl
in the following words: GAS to the
maiden, she is taught to respect her
self, that her fate is in her own hands
and that she is more stringently
bound by the very measure of liberty
so freely accorded Ler here. Where
fore. in her own nguage, she has a
lovely time with about two or three
hundred boys who have sisters of their
own and a very accurate perception
that if they are unworthy of their
trust syndicate of other boys would
probably pass them into world where
there is neither marriage nor giving
in marriage.
"And so time goes on until the
maiden knows the other side of the
house-knows that a man is not a
demi-god nor a mysteriously yelled
monster, but an average, egotistical,
vain, gluttOnOus, but, on the whole,
companionable sort of person, to be
soothed, fed and anaged-knowledg
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England till after a few years Of
matrimony.
'And then she makes her choice.
The golden light touches eyes that
are full of comprehension, but the
light is golden none the less, for she
makes just the same sweet, irrational
choice that an English girl does. With
this advantage: She knows little
more, has experience in entertaining,
insight into business, employs and
hobbies of men, gathered from count
less talks with the boys and talks
with other girls who find time at
those mysterious conclaves to discuss
what Tom, Ted, Stuke and Jack have
been doing.
"Thus it happens that she is COM
panion, in the fullest sense Of the
word, of the man she weds, Jealous
for the interest of the firm, to be con-
suited in time of stress and to be
called upon for help and sympathy
in time of danger. Pleasant it is that
one heart should beat for you, but it
is better that the head above that
heart has been thinking hard in your
behalf, and when the lips that are so
pleasant to kiss give wise counsel"
Women who do not want to marry