The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-30
WHAT QUALITIES DO MEN
LIKE MOST IN WON EN7


Generally speaking, it may be said
that man is the audience to which
woman always plays She is not indif-
ferent to the admiration of her own
sex. but it is mans that she seeks most,
for the praise of woman Of woman is
the profitless applause of those who
have nothing but their good opinion
to give. while the favor of man is ac-
companied by perquisites and prizes
for the lucky one who wins it.
OF course, women will deny this. The
traditional attitude of woman towards
man is that of a goddess on a pedestal
with her nose in the air, who haughtily
deigns to sniff at the incense that is
burnt before her, not a hustler who is
out to round up an incense burner.
Nevertheless, the most casul observ-
er cannot help remarking that a wom-
an never quite treats a woman as she
treats a man, or takes quite as much
trouble to please her. No woman
listens to another woman's converse
ton with the same'rapt attention she
bestows upon mans. No woman
ever beams and gurgles with delight at
the attentions of another woman as she
does at the notice of even a common
place man. When a man tells story
a woman's laughter is hung on a hair
trigger that any old chestnut will ex-
plode, but a woman who can make her
own sex smile deserves a medal as
wit and a faithful worker.
All of this is as Heaven ordained
for a woman, neither has to marry
another woman. nor does she have to
keep her satisfied and happy through
all the vicissitudes of married life.
The strange part of it, however, is that
having made a study of the art of
pleasing men since the dawn of crea-
ton that women have not reduced 1t
to an exact science. SO far from this
being the case--instead of a handy
manual of the qualities that men like
most in women having been compiled
after profound study OF masculine
taste-women are still ignorantly
laundering along in the dark, content
to make guesses at the subject. Nat
urally, when all women are trying
to solve the conundrum, many women
guess right, and many others approx
innate the answer. but a continually
increasing number guess wrong and
in consequence are the ranks of the
spinsters swelled
According to popular belief beauty
the head of the list of attractions that
women have for men, but in reality
this cuts much smaller figure than
is generally supposed. In fact, men
put much more liberal Interpretation
upon what constitutes good looks in
woman than women do themselves.
A woman nands regularity Of fea-
ture, &C of skin, sheen of hair
and gra, sure before she will give
a certitlc-, Of pulchritude to another
woman, but men will substitute many
other agreeable qualities such as good
health, or a pretty dress for beauty
and let it go at that
This suggests that much Of the time
and effort that women put in in the
vain attempt to make straight hair
curly. or convert a short and stubby
figure into a Gibsonan thinness and
length might be better employed in
cultivating an amiable disposition, or
a sweet smile, which a man is as
likely as not to mistake for a Venus
like complexion, or a classical profile.
That it is also true that men do not
marry for beauty, however much they
may admire it abstractly, is also
abundantly proven by the number Of
homely matrons with whom we are
all acquainted.
Next to beauty, women depend on
clothes to attract men, and yet, al
though the great majority of women
spend most of their time and money
and serious thought on dressing to
please men, they have never found
out the kind of clothes that men adj
mire most. Men like simplicity in q
woman's dress. 1t may be the sim
plicity that costs more than miles of
frills, but TO the untutored masculine
eye it looks simple. In old-fashioned
novels, which were mostly written by
men, the girl who wore an unsophis-
teal white muslin always captured
the rich and distinguished hero from
out of the very claws of the ladies
who were dressed in silks, and satins,
and laces, and the same ideal of wom-
ems dress prevails to-day among men.
They hate the fussy and the frowsy
in clothes, and above all they lay
stress far more than women do up
on cleanliness. Only too often a wom-
an will forgive chiffon for being mes
sy, because it is chiffon, or excuse lace
for being dirty because It is old
point, but a man makes none of these
fine distinctions. Nothing would in
duce him to wear a soiled collar, and
nothing disgusts him in a woman
more than to see her decked out in
finery that cries aloud for the wash
tub. The woman who dresses to please
man may spend much money or little
on her clothes, but she must be al
ways immaculately neat, and the
trimmer and the tauter the better
The hour glass figure was womans