Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-09-14

round, or stick pin into your doll to
get at the sawdust. or wonder what
was on the other side of the moon,
when you were a youngSer? Every
thing attractive is always on the other
side, even heaven
WELL" said Polly. touching the tip
end of her nose with dash Of powder.
so IL a woman--when she Is most at.
tractive. But Mr.. Heavyfeather. the
lady managersss would object IL she
knew that you we're bothering around
the stars dressing room, even IL this Is
only an amateur performance. I've
got that rouge on quite crooked, and
you're spelling my temper and shatter.
ing your illusions
Il suppose you mean said I. settling
myself well back on the slippery edge
of the trunk and lighting cigarette
with a grim determination. that q
woman's attraction is all in the per.
spective--"
Il DON'T" said Polly, rubbing the
cold cream into her nose and eyes I'm.
I'll they were nothing but a smudge,
III you mean that you won't go away.
A woman is most attractive when she
il most engaged. 1t doesn't make and
difference whether she is playing Jul
let or making biscuits
"Or 'making.up,' declared. looking
admiringly at Polly through a cloud Of
smoke. "A man ought always to watch
woman 'making.up' II he really wants
to see her at her best"
! "a man." said Polly, scrubbing her
cheek violently with towel, never
sees any woman at her best. That is
the sad part Of 1t. The minute man
comes around, the average girl drops
her rollingpln, or her ping.pons racket.
or her water color brush, or her powder
puff, and Immediately begins to try to
be fascinating II she would only 90
on just being herself, regardless Of his
presence, and would look at life and at
what she is doing through transpar.
ent medium composed OF his head and
body, he would-Mr. Heavyfeather, will
you please stop playing tit-tat-toe on
that trunk and hand me the big hat
with the feathers? You're distracting
me So"
why don't you look at what you arc
doing through a transparent medium
composed Of my head and body?" l
asked sweetly. as held the hat out by
one feather.
Some men," said Polly, ignoring my
suggestion as she rescued the feather
and put the hat down carefully out of
reach Of my boots, fancy that 1t Is
youth that makes woman attractive"
That depends" ! remarked. ''on
whether You like them at sixteen, when
they are unsophisticated and uncon
scious, or at thirty.six, when they know
how to wear their frocks properly and
hide their emotions"
, Exactly" said Polly: ut is merely
the difference between getting the raw
material and the finished article or
ordering your dinner on the European
plan and eating at table d'hote. 1t
Is all matter of taste Besides, there
are lots of women who are fascinating
from the time they begin to crow in the
Grade until the crows feet begin to
come around their eyes"
"And yet" said I. watching Polly
dust the rice powder over her nose,
there is always time when women
Is most beautiful"
That Is not necessarily the time
when she is most fascinating" re.
oined Polly, as she moistened her little
finger between her lips and wiped the
powder Off one eyebrow. "Beauty Is
only powder deep, you know. never
found that snub nose and a few
freckles prevented m-anybody from
filling a dance program, nor that a
lack of height or the want of Titan
locks made man less anxious to have
anybody lay her head on his coal
lapel"
"That's>so," said ]; 'I've seen dozens
OF raving beauties In Paris gowns
standing round against the wall trying
to look comfortable while red.headed
little thing with green eyes and q bad.
ly fitting frock had to divide her
dances into quarters, and even six.
teenths, to satisfy -"
And II is always the best looking
women" broke in Polly, "who make
the worst matches. Are you sitting ON
those curling tongs, Jack?"
felt under the trunk cover and ex.