The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-16
WHAT CON u '7 | IS
AN IDE. A T.: y FIIEFE {

\HE crownng ambition Of almost every girl Is life
is matrimony. Let her deny the utterance q
knows it to be the truth. She need not be ashamed
of the fact either is but natural and her mother
and her grandmother could tell the story Yes,
she wants to marry and she intends to become ideal
wife, Now how shall she accomplish itS What
stitutes ideal wifeq She has many good wives
considered from this viewpoint or that, but ideal
wife embraces more. IT,.
There is nothing very closely associated with
nance in young girl g mind in good housewifery.
Certainly any young in his youthful ardor must
be Of very practical turn Of mind to let such mat
ter weigh very heavily in his choice. Then there is
the intellectual girl whose ceverness and strength Of
mind absolutely brighten away sentiment Of all kinds,
and while she may be shrewd and even brilliant few
would dare to make love to her for fear Of ridi
cule Beauty, Of course, has always ranked as the
great charm Of women. Beauty Of face and figure
both command admiration in small degree. There
women who simply live to be beautiful Nova
be known as "beauty doctors'' have among their pa
tients more Of women who consult them
upon. dietary matters which bear upon good COM
plexion and also good figure. These women will
ing to suffer and deny themselves in order that their
Misrepresentation may be conducive to good results
and good looks. Many women live abstemiously in
order to encourage beauty rather than TO preserve
health, not regarding the terms as synonymous The
athletic girl must necessarily sacrifice much to grace
Of movement Growth Of muscles, brownness Of skin
and hardness Of hands are not generally regarded as
suitable for ideal women There can beno real beauty
in body which is strained and distorted by constant
The delicate languiq tyPe Of women
about thirty years ago and is now out Of date
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s= To what, then, must woman attain that she may
rank in list Of desirable womanly attributes which
shall attract to her side the right MANI The simplest
y method, says writer in the Brooklyn Eagle, is to
make q study Of the most attractive women and to
take into consideration the particular kind Of
whom they please before forming standards Various
ideals and tastes exist There some things that
never pail upon The girl who possesses the
peculiar charm of being entertaining is always agree
able and popular. This is dull workaday world and
the woman who make smooth pleasant the path,
even for hour, Of those whose lives approach
her possesses that indefnabe quality gift which
every believes is his sovereign right to claim.
In the monotony Of existence the fever heat Of pas
sion cannot be kept for alive and the tacfu sym
pathetic nature counts for more than all else.
ttMy wife has never ceased to be entertaining, =
"A man may: tire Of q woman who bases her charm
upon fair complexion small white hand lustrous
eyes. An artist who loves only the truly beautiful
in life said Of his wife 3 hands that bore the marks
Of useful labor that she should be proud Of them.
So may conclude that the whole basis upon which
to form standard for ideal wife rests upon the
peculiar significance Of charm-not charm Of person,
but charm of presence. The woman who makes smooth
the way Of ife-who is able to adapt herself to the
methods of the sterner sex-wiU inevitably be the
who will never prove dull, vapid or insignificant
in the eyes Of her lord and master This quality Of
charm would eliminate from the character of the would
be possessor all selfshness, vanity and egotsm and
establish well developed, broad, generous nature in.
stead To inculcate this charm is well worth any
girl,s while.