Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-17

ClasSed under two general neadS: the
girl who has an innate charm and the
girl who understands how to make her
self appear charming. Both types are
equally fascinating to men since they
are never too discriminating about the
attractive qualities of the fair ones or
their acquaintance, and are always
ready to act the part of the fly around
the honey-willing to taste its sweet
ness. although it knows that honey Will
inevitably tangle the feet of a fly. The
girl who represents honey will catch
Just as many masculine flies as the girl
who is clever enough to spin a web 10
entrap their ~incautious feet.
Men as individuals have various
fancies as to the sorts of girls they
particularly admire, but men as a class
admire certain kinds Of manners IN
girls just as inevitably as all men ad-
mire beauty, whether they come TO o
beauty in one person or not.
Men like a s~weet-natured girl-and
that does not always mean a girl OF
perfectly even temper. There are girls
whose sweetness of nature bubbles up
and Overflows just as their little tenn
pers will bubble up n overflow and
alas! bewitch the men. Yes, there are
men who are perfectly beWitched by
little ebullitionS of temper IN a girl.
1t seems 10 them like the play OF a
kitten and TO give a touch of the hui
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quite too angelic for anything. ~ girl
W. can do a tiny bit Of pouting with
q great deal of smiling, is the girl
whom men fin fascinating.
Games Of chance entrance men, as a
rule, and the girl who is as little to
be depended upon as q game or cnance
acquires a fascination seldom TO be
equalled. Her men friends are never
certain whether her gentle sympathy
and her interest in them Is really VCuch-
Safed to them alone or 10 all the men
of her acquaintance. She throws into
her manner a little ouch of ca
maraderie which makes each man think
himself preferred to the other. and yet
at other times her manner are charac-
terized by a smiling, pleasant n
wholly polite Indifference which inter.
ests a man intensely a ne seeks
to find some solution for each change
of mood and his natural egotism makes
him believe that he has been the means
of causing these changes.
The girl who, in the endeaYor TO
please men, makes too great an effort
to charm them is seldom a girl Tery
much liked except by extremely diff
dent and somewhat dull men. h av-
erage man finds a wonderful charm in
that little touch of Indifference which
the captivating woman invariably Dos
sesses. It makes him value more any
trifing personal attention which she
may show him n always sets him
guessing as to how he stands il her
good graceS.
A man does not reed to be in love
with a girl TO wish TO stand we'll with
her, for a mar is jealous in his friend
ships as in his affections.
The girl who always tries to be funny
or to be clever ABOVE the average
frightens men. They either believe she
&C. r,cr, nlA,-aT than thrre-CplNpG and
therefore, to be avoided for fear Of uG-
fortunate contrasts, or else they tSiEk
that she believes herself more clever
than her men aCquaiutanCes, ana tnal
is a thought not TO be tolerated. Mn
will gather ABOUT girls OF this TYPE ior
q time and appear ID cnJGy tleIf So
ciety, but they DO not seek out tbs ]23e
of girl TO take upon long walls and
drives or to help pass iG.e Lo~iS IL
pleasant places.
There is in some c!-.s ~ !@1atc
charm. together with n certain ciGs.Fs"
ness Of manner, which Is perfectly irIe-
sistible. There Is always &o.n-thnG
wonderfully attractive 10 the human
mind about q thing WGiCl cannot he
understood, and elusiVentas in 4 6irl
Is like the fragrance of a flower, en-
chanting to the senses but rot p@IctD-
tible nor explainable.
Another charm OF manner which mon
adore in girls is that little air of def
erence to them which very clever or
naturally sweet girls manifest. Very
delicately the man is made to und&r-
stand that hi, opinion is Of more
weight than the girls, that his judg-
ment Is really q court Of last resort in
most matters; that his information is,
of course, always thorough; that his
advice is of value and himself set on
tina pedestal. Of wisdom which every
mar covets in the mind OF the girl he
likes.
The girl who will hear an old joke
with a ready smile; who listens at
tentive'- and interestedly to what is
told her; who is willing to be amused
with trivial things and who manifests
a cheerful, happy disposition at all
times, is a general favorite. She a
not be as clever as some girls in the
art of entertaining, but she possesses
the attraction of being easily enter
tanned; she may not be as interesting
a conversationalist or as well informed
as some serious girl with the weight
Of moodiness on her brows too fire.
quently, but her disposition seems to
diffuse sunshine about her.
The girl with sympathetic manners
has a charm that is everywhere irwin
chile. There is nothing quite 80 at
tractive as sympathy. 1t is perceived
almost at first glance in a girl, and
seems to cast a glow OF light and
warmth over the neart. The girl who
is unsympathetic is never really pop
ular. Her manners have about them
something of the chill OF her nature,
and one insensibly feels that such a
girl is ~self-centered and never worth
making a friend.
A trifie of vanity and variableness in
a girl is always fascinating To a man.
To him vanity seems one OF the pref
tiest, daintiest and most venial of FEM
mine foibles, and few men care for a
woman who is not possessed of some
vanity, j.st as few men care for a
woman who exhibits too much.
While wise men usually want to
marry sincere women, upon whose
word they may be able to depend: in
sincerity in a woman invariably capti-
Yates them. 1t is so interesting to
the masculine mind to endeavor 70 de-
termine just how much may be really
meant by the delightful woman with
whom he may be talking. Her little
~pleasantries. are extremely nattering.
They fire his imagination-and that is
always a pleasurable experimentation
why may she not be fatteringly sincere
to him at the expense of insincerity
toward another person?
The effect of uneompromising truth
fulness In a girl might be explained in
the words of a man discussing a bevy
of girls:
Miss Ethel is absolutely sincere"
he said. "She is more sincere thar
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