The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-11
PATHETIC PLAIN GIRL
HER NEED OF CHARM IN HER
 BATTLE WITH FATE.

She Must Not be Untidy and She Must Never be Selfish Nor Anything but Sweet and Cheerful.
 How charming you are" he exclaim- eded, in fervor of admiring love.
 T have to be charming was her re- ply. because I'm so plain" This same young woman used to say frankly that bad temper and selfish ness were two luxuries that no girl who wasn't a beauty could afford to treat herself to. Eyerything-eve downright unamiability and impudence-wer for given to the girl with an angels face, but such things were intolerable in the ordinary girl.
 And untidness-that's another un- forgivable crime in the girl whose fea- lures are not cut just right, and whose complexion isn't up to the mark, or her figure what it should be-, was another of her personal convictions. The beauty can go round with wisps of hair hanging in her neck and blowzy ten drills blowing into her eyes, with her shoestring trailing on the payment and her dress frayed around the edges and never be criticised for it. People will call her so unconventional and so de- lightfully free and easy had just the most artistic person you ever saw Men will tie up her shoelaces for her and stop in the middle of a waltz or a hand or bridge for her to patch up her hair, and consider themselves blessed to be given the chance. But let the plain girl try it on-let the girl whom no II # like that, and see if she doesn't catch it! There is no charm or glamour about untidiness when it is practiced by an unpreposgsessing girl, let me tell fH ffl you!'
 E There used to be two old proverbs that were made to do duty whether a x girl was pretty or plain. Sometimes her # elders reminded her that Beauty is deceitful and favor is vain,' and if she was good lookingg this was supposed to encourage her. Sometimes the moth CTS and aunts and elderly friends changed their remarks to run Beauty is only skin deep" This always made the homely girl ''mad'', if she had any prooer spirit in her, for, of course, be- ling a woman, she knew well enough that a dimDle in the chin of a pair of 5fne eyes would be worth more to her lin her duel with fate than any intellect ual gifts or spiritual graces she could acquire. Skin deep though it might be, she would have liked a little beauty, and not unnaturally she looked upon lerself as badly treated.
 Over in London, where they discuss Ill sorts of subjects in their papers, even when it is not their silly season." They have been discussing topic which grows out of the general subject of food looks and their value to women. &The Lady's Pietorial,' in an editorial Entitled "Gargoyles and Graces," says: Just recently there has been much iscussion over the subject of good poking nurses for the sicq, and while an the one hand it has been argued hat a very prettp sicknurse is mot de- &rable in house, there has been abun- snt testimony on the other side that valids prefer to have a pretty wo- Ian in attendance on them and are all e better for looking upon what is keet and pleasant in their hours of hffering. It is to be feared that it is Ne good looking ones who best succeed their profession, since they frequent
 
 1sceptible doctors and this being so lis impossible to hide the painful fact at many more excellent and charm
 women, for no other fault than that bvidence has not bestowed good ks upon them are dorned to the hdggery and loneliness and dreari- ss that others never know who start 3h, perhaps fewer qualifications, but Ter faces
 None save the sufferers themselves IT., perhaps, know what pathos there be in plainness; they make the best the inevitable, they assume a cheer hess and make a pretensse of indif- ence to beauty which at least shield Inn from continual pity, but who Bws but themselves how they long have had but a small share of the Futy so generously showered on an- er and how cruelty they feel the plessness of their position when they
 pushed aside, for their sisters who
 more richly lowered so far as beau Is concerned.
 No woman, however cheery and
 et and unselfish she may be would
 ratheer have had good looks, had
 her choice. Beauty seems to be
 fright which every woman feels
 hre has no business to withhold from
 because perhaps with Bruyere,
 finds how much art, good nature,
 lgences, how many good offices and
 ities are required among friends to
 mplish in some years what lovely
 does in a moment Yet withal,
 shall say that while plainness has
 pathetic and its tragic side, it has
 also it's compensations After all,
 h plain woman is loved, she know
 it is for herself alon and that 8
 an who has never been pretty has
 r been young is certainly not the
 for the merriest and brightest
 ies in the world, those beloved
 godmothers who are the friends