The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-12-26
Fashions Of 1850.

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IA the Confession albums Of 1850 and
Whereabouts Rochester figured as my
fayorite hero in fiction" almost as Of.
len as Byron a little earlier and Carl
lbaIdi and silyio Pellico a little later
figured as my favorite heroes in real
Iiite."
sttvio Pelllco's pathetic book, "In
Ny Prison" the record Of ten years in
dungeons Of Venice and spIelburg,
brought him to the hearts Of romantic
women, while Garibaldfs simplicity
and gallant slngle-minded pursuit of
Itlie freedom Of Italy, together with a
lstrong personality, caused his simplest
sayngs to be banded about from
mouth to mouth. and quoted with a fer
lyor never bestowed upon the inspired
utterances OF biblical characters. He
who bends his back too low may find
It hard to ~stralghten again." was writ
ten in half the Commonplace Books"
CT England in 1884.
Goethe declared that "the man who
seems to care little whether lie charms
or attracts women is he who seduces."
but Chesterfield laid 1t down as a first
principle that he who fatters women
most pleases them best, and they are
mcst in love with him they think is
most in love with them"
It may have been so then, but, leaV-
ing the historic cases of men who have
been adored by women and coming to
modern instances, Goethe's assertion
oeems to be more true than the die
ltrm Of Chesterfield. An Italian proverb
says. "Women, asses and nuts require
strong hands,"
II seem they like strong men. Per
hans. under the veneer Of m%odernity
and the trappings OF civilization, there
Fingers in the real woman the instinct
Iot a savage, and the primeVai method
LOT marriage by capture appeals to us
NH. one Is tempted to believe that it
is not only among the lower classes
that woman adores a brute, and
though we do not say openly, ut is
lard &c a man can't hit his own wo-
Iman" 1t is the men who are our mas
ters that command their full need of
detection.
cecil Rhodes Power.
Cecil Rhodes had no room in his life
for omen They were kept carefully
In their proper place among the
things that do not matter"
MS relations with the fair and fral!
sey were of the most casual descrip-
tlon. He made use of them OCCASION
ally. sometimes to gain information or
10 further his plans. and less frequent
" for the sake of a brief relaxation
but when they had played their part
In his scheme, It was as II they had
been wiped OF the face of the earth as
far as he was concerned.
Yet the women schemed to meet
him. endured patiently his intolerablc
Indifference to their charm, intellect or
beauty, and would-as they proved in
one Of two notable instances-have de
scended TO any depths of ignominy to
ins,nuate themselves into his favor,
Irony was wasted on them, satire left
them unmoved; Cecil Rhodes attract
cd n numerous body of women as Il
magnet attracts steel filings, and he did
IT with Just as little effort and quite as
much indifference.
We have a similar instance in Lord
KfcIener. He is the Colossus among
plgmIes, n "man of ice and iron" The
whole character of the man is shown
in India as tx" The single letter
used In both civilian and military cir
cles to designate the ~commander-in'
chief of the Indian Army.
A Male FIirt.
OF the different type, but none the
less dimcult to captivate, is the Ba'
den.Powell of Mafeking fame. He Is