The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-06
WOMAN'S WORLD

j., fortunatsly feminine experience does
not bear them out. For the most part
men are blind and unobserving cTea-
ture and the woman who doesn't call
their attention to the line of attrac-
tions that she carries ia mighty apt to
have them overlooked. What man, for
example. would ever notice what fine
eyes q girl has unless she rolled them
at him. or what q little foot she pos
sessed except for the fact that her
| slippers had q habit of coming chroni-
| cally united. or what a sweet. and
| pure and unworthy expression she
! had except that she always sits in her
parlor under picture of the Madon-
! ma?
Then there are the articles of
| dress. OF course, women do not dress
to please men. We have the state
ment from their own lips. Equally, of
course. men deprecate women's friv-
, olity, and the amount of time. and
thought and money they spend on
frills. Every man will tell you that
the kind of a woman he admires Is
one who dresses plainly, and simply,
and hygienically, and who would new
er be guilty of the folly of plnching
her waist, or wearing high heel shoes
but it is worth while for women to
take notice that no man is ever caught
out with a female dressed according
to his theories, and that the fiuffier
the frtller, and the silk lineder she is
the more attention she attracts from
the opposite sex.
AS for men seeking out humble and
unattractive merit and marrying it,
that too, alas, is a fallacy. 1t is
sad truth that the girls in every COM
munity who are fitted to make the
best wives all get to be old maids
Even when a woman does possess the
domestic virtues she has to call atten-
ton to them. AS long as a girl is sat
isfied to practice cookery in the kitch-
en-, she does it unrewarded of man. 1t
is only when she performs her stunt in
public in the chatting dish that man
perceives and applauds her house
Wifely accomplishments. 1t is the
girl who darns her stockings on the
front porch instead of in the privacy
of her bed room who is celebrated as
paragon of thrift and industry, who
will make good wife.
Don't encourage the attentions of
too many young men," Alas, what is
often attributed to woman for van
ity is, in reality, merely self-preserva-
ton. Custom does not permit woman
to seek her mate. She can only take
what comes her way, and in order
that she may possibly find the one
man, she is forced to encourage all
men. For a woman to get the rep
utation of being "offish," of being hard
to please, of snubbing chance men to
whom she is introduced, is for her to
build quarantine around herself that
no man will attempt to break through.
Men are afraid of her. they dare not
risk getting the cold shoulder. and so
they leave her severely alone. This
cuts her chances of marrying down
to nothing, and so did men but real
tze the martyrdom of boredom that
woman goes through while she is sit
ting on the anxious seat waiting for
the possible HE to come aIong-the
callow youths she has to listen to,
the dwelling grandpas she has to
endure, the bumptious self-esteem OF
cyclists whom she has to pretend to
admire-they would pity instead of
blame her.
On the whole. the professors advice
about Irritation will be of little use to
the co-eds. The way of a maid with a
man is a mystery past finding out,
but 1t is one of the things which the
silliest girl knows more about in
minute than the most learned savant
does in a life time.
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