Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-16
MISS CHARLIE SCOTT.
OF r1rSSISSIPPI
C8uck PhoboO
BY Campbell Macleod.

~ NE Of the truths that the South
ern girl imbibes with her mothers
n milk Is that a woman's strongest
weapon is her femininity. Man
is made not to mourn, IN spite
~ Of the poets melancholy lament,
but to walt on and make things
easy for her He expects to do It, and she
gracefully let's him shoulder the burden.
strangers speak Of the charm Of the
Southern girl as something illusive-iude-
Unable. Bless you, it's the simplest thing
I'm the world. 1t is not always beauty,
though that is an excellent card to hold.
II is her strange hypnotic power OF sug-
gtsting. conveying Clairvoyantly TO man,
he he from the North, East, south or
West, that she needs him. And not
mothers son of them all can resist the
Cattery OF her apparent helplessness. She
needs hlm-Lord love herl-and he has
never failed her yet. WHAT'S the use OF
spelling her pretty elbow sleeve arm Cul-
tivating muscle when he has such super
abundance OF strength going TO waste,
added to a knightly yearning to show her
how easy II Is for him 10 slay all the wild
beasts in the worlds arena for the re-
ward Of her futtering handkerchief ap-
pause2
VINO ever heard a Southern girl lament
ing the fact that chivalry has gomez she
doesn't believe IL, not. for one moment.
or II II has withered away uncer rlgh's
talk and suffrage notions II has a way OF
TDNlNlnR, ike lnOAt tuIlbub ltNhl lNN AA'AA
plants our grandmothers brought home
from the Philadelphia Centennial, when
she appears on the scene. Some wise one
las observed that a pretty girl generally
takes an optimistic view Of the world
gaIlantry Not all the pretty girls live on
Popular street in this playground OF So
ciety, but the average Southern girl un-
derstands what constitutes the ground
work of social success. In superabund-
auCe she has inherited tact and culu-
waited the social graces until her manner
Is a JOY forever.
THE SECRET OF CHARM.
A little debutante asked a creole Erande
dame, who is stiu a belle In spite of her
eighty years and snowy locks:-"Tell me
the secret OF yourPower, madame. Teach
me 10 fasCinate people as you do"
MY child" was the smiling response,
remember this, in the alphabet Of charm
there is no such letter as l, IL Is all you. "
This Is but a pretty echo OF Nine. Re-
Jamier's famous reply as 10 her power
over men:-"It is sympathy, sympathy"
Romantic? or course they are Wash I
Juliet Southern girl? And her dreams
uf young love are mirrored In every
Southern girls Imagination. II juliet had
been other than she was-impulsive, ten
der, loving and romantiC-RomeO would
have sung his loves beneath another ball
cuny. She was the very essence OF femi-
ninity-the type that can drive any man,
polite, 10 do desperate deeds, TO count
the world well lost II by losing IL he gain
his love.
The Southern girl as a rule does not 60
in for higher education, but she Is no less
alluring because she didn't get to quad
ratics in algebra. Who cares II sh,
doesn't know the multiplication table,
The big world Is teeming with men 10 dC
her sums, The chances are that before
she Is thirty-fve she will have married
a al INF O. s.fN A.
glnia carrying on all sorts OF honoTs IN
mathematics.
Then, again, sheIl glance at the columnl
OF political news and frankly tell yol
over the morning paper that she hasn'
q suspicion ever, even after she has rea,
H. what it Is all about. But Just let hel
get her mead set 10 have certain man
husband, brotherC father or lover-elected
che doesn't have 20 mount stump, bu
she carries her point just the same-anS
he gets the ONCE. on the level, now, VIII
cares about woman knowing any politics
especially the Southern Womang She cal