The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-02-14

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The pretty girl has secrets Of her own.
There are reasons why she Is beautiful.
n she knows what they are.
She b Q cumming mink. the pretty girl.
and she .resltzes that beauty Is with her
a something, which she has created and Of
which she possesses the secret.
In other words. the pretty girl knows
hat she would not be pretty unless she
wanted 70 be %.
8 Knows that prettiness Is at every
voman's beck and call. and that no wom-
an In pretty without trying to be such.
The pretty girl knows hat the quality
Of beauty - . thresfold ne.
She known that It lies iret in the man
ner. Ne pretty girl ever had bad ann
or II she did. + did not seem pretty
very long.
The pretty giri knows, secondly, that
beauty Hes IN expression. and In the way
OF speaking. b knows that 4 word fifty
spoken becomes perfectly charming. while
a word spoken badly or out of place de-
tracts . Just - much from q woman's
beauty.
Ana. third, she realizes that . WELL
groomed woman ID . pretty woman
The question Of manner 10 one that every
woman should study. She should avoid
CAb ~
body dis;ikes. the woman who talks for ef-
feet. and With great emphasis.
This sort Of woman imsgines that she
would have been q great success upon the
stage, and she goes in for elocution pure
and simple In her daily conversation.
She uses extravagant phrases and At
FIRST passes for a woman Of great talent
and wit. but she does not wear we'll
You soon tire Of her!
A girl who's manner IL quite the oppo-
site. but no less disagreeao.e. Is the girl
who assumes, the role OF the melancholy
maiden.
This siri h psnsive: h assumes poses:
she sits and dreams when b knows that
people are looking At her: she wears q
sad, sweet smile; and she Il exasperatinS
10 the last degree:
THE DEMoNsTRArIvE GIRL
A girl who b almost as trying In the
demonstrative. the .argumentative girl
This sfrl shows o The error Of your
view, she 10 always ready to show you
that. you are wrong.
She never agrees with you.
She has theories. this girl. and she ID
constantly discovering new ones.
she 10 aggressive. alert. never firing.
full Of information, wise and otherwise,
and she-is siNays eager to impart it.
As this sort Of woman srows older she
becomes set mi her q and by h time
she 10 - her opinion n irrevocably formed
on an subjects.
Thea. there 10 tbs plain-spoken girl. and.
II possible. b - b most dissSreeable
Of them all,in the galaxy Of disasreeable
persons.
The piain-spoken girl gives you a piece
Of her mind: she tells you this and hat
and everything else. b believes In call
ing . spade . SPADE n b has . horror
Of diplomacy.
independent and unattractive.
She has a curious faculty for rubbing
you the wrong way and she never leaves
you in a pleasant frame Of mind.
No matter how regular Of feature q dis
agreeable Is, you never want to
call her pretty. She does not impress you
as such.
She jars you. and this fact keeps you
from seeing her features in a normal man
nef.
She is distorted by the awful manners
and the disagreeabie nannerisms which
she assumes. y
The girl who essays to be pretty studies
q pretty manner She finds out early in
her career that there are certain things
which are very attractive about a woman.
And, as she ascertains the facts, one by
one, SnG iilah6S d mentdl record OF tnem
and keeps them for her own
The most attractive attitude a woman
can assume Is that Of agreeing with you.
woman who agrees with you stamps
herself at once as a woman OF taste, dis
criMination n good sense. She under
stands your feelings and possesses a deep
sympathy for them that Is most flatter-
Ing.
GIRLS WHO AGREE. WITH YOU.
There is a great charm about the girl
who agrees with you. all argument to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The girl who argues with o may be
the girl who keeps you up to the mark
mentally. But there IL q certain soothing,
something about the girl who agrees with
you that Is delightful.
Girls are taught nowadays to have opin-
ions and to argue them out. But. after
ALL Is the girl who thinks as you think
who 10 the more attractive.
A man will argue all the evening with
the progressive girl and come away filed
with admiration for her Intellect. But
down deep in his heart he turns toward
the pretty girl pho purrs out a little soft
synpathy and who tells him hat her
views coincide with his.
II you wan TO make a man love YOU.
agree with him. II You want to make him
think you are pretty, agree with him.
If you want to make thin think you are
attractive n an embodiment
Of al the virtues. gre with him. 1t is
the quick. sure road to feminine success.
The girl who aspires to beauty must
cultivate Q soft voice.
1t need not b q low voice. but it must be
a xentle voice. q feminine voice: a voice
that II almost q COG.
The rtri who can talk to you In q soft.
slow. persuasive tone 10 the girl who wine
you every time
II IL 40 sweet to hear b . voice issuing
from those gentle lips. And the face looks
% charmingly pretty under such circum-
stances.
Perhaps the most attractive Of all wom-
IN, the one who captfvateS you quickest
ans keeps you ceptivated the longest. is