The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-05
Uomdn' s Uorld

| zeal, but there is no man so hardened
that he does not shudder away from a
| hard woman. He may never put his
] foot inside of a church, but he wants
| woman TO be pious. He may disbe-
IleVe in everything i'm heaven or earth,
but he wants woman to have child
| like faith in everything, and no mat
/ ter how much he laughs at her for her
| credulity, he loves her the better for
| 1t. He may judge the world mercileEs-
| ~, but he wants a woman to be full of
| tender and unreasoning sympathy and
pity. No man ever loved a woman who
| did not cry, or who was not tender TO
little children, or who would not give
| to a beggar and investigate his needs
afterwards. The girl who thinks it
smart to sneer at domesticity and de-
clares that she VIII never debase her
talents by learning to cook or sew,
who hates children and mocks at re-
iigion, no matter how brilliant or
| beautiful she is, does not attract men.
Men Hate Forced Gayety.
Men like cheerfulness in a woman
but they hate forced gayety. Probably
there is no other woman in the world
that makes men so tired as the psrpet-
ual giggler and gusher-the woman
whose conversation ia a series of ex-
CARNATIONS, VINO chatters like a mag
pie, and who laughs al everything that
is said, whether it is funny or not.
These women labor under the hallucin-
alton that the way to be vivacious is
never to be still. Now. in this country,
where society is carried on(after office
hours men seek the companionship of
women for rest and relaxation. They
want quiet. They want to be soothed
and sympathiZed with. and not to be ir
rltated by the antics of a perpetual mo-
ton machine, combined with the noise
OF a photograph that never runs down.
The woman who wants to attract
men must know how to listen as well
as talk. She must suggest an atmos
pnere OF quiet and peace, not a Vaude
Vile show where there is something al.
ways doing. She must be deeply, softly
comprehensive. 1t is on the bosom of
the ocean that one dreams Of resting,
not on the babbling brook 1t is the
sense of restfulness, of quiet peace theyI
give that form the attraction of the
large. placid, bovine women, who are
generally as stupid as they look. but
who almost invariably get the pick of
the matrimonial market.
Should Not Roll Eyes.
Above all, men like naturalness in
women. Affectation and artificiality
are the bette noir of the masculine sex. |
II Is unQemable that women roll their /
eyes at men, and men succumb; thatI
men are taken in by the simple little |
deoutante Who is younger and more
innocent. and ignorant, than anyone
ever was by nature land that not every |
Woman's hair and complexion are hers
except by right CT purchase; but these |
women who affect to be what they are |
not and still please men are artists |
helr imitation of a perfect lady is SO
good that it looks like the real thing
What disgusts men is the elephantine |
lady who affects to be kittenish; the |
stringy spinster of uncertain age who
lisps baby talk; the big, strong, capable
looking woman who thinks it cute to
Shrek every time she sees mouse; and
the vast sisterhood of feminine posers
who go into Mysteries of delight over
Browning and Wagner, when their real
tastes in literature and music are the
Duchess" and "Bedelia"
Women haven't found it out yet butt
the qualities that men like best in
hem are tenderness, sympathy, affec-
ion and goodness, and a man never adj
nires woman so much as when she is
luSt-a woman.