The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-03-09
Copyright. BY Joseph b. BowIss.)

One often hears the expression: "Oh.
she's a mans woman!" or she's a
woman's woman!" and certainly the
differentiation Is just. Occasionally
It happens that the two are COM
bined In one person, and then
we may, with the exaetness OF
science, pronounce that the secret Of
this woman's attraction lies In the
| possession of that most subtle, most
difficult of all attributes to define,
which we know as charm.
But charm is very rare. II w
meet with 1t half dozen times In Q
life we may think ourselves fortunate.
We are sure that Cleopatra possessed
1t, all the more so since modern re-
search goes to prove that she was not
beautiful. and we are equally sure that.
had she been the most beautiful OF her
sex and that alone. we should never
have heard of her. Great beauty Is
rare, but as all things are relative
In this life, 1t would seem that, COM
pared to that prominent power which
we call charm, beauty Is but a COM
mon and everyday affair.
Beauty without charm will attract.
but not retain, while charm without
beauty will both draw and hold the ad-
rii-ation. Sometimes the two exist to-
gether, as In the case of Nine. Reca-
mier. But can we doubt which OF
these qualities 1t is that has made her
live? II her attraction had been mere
beauty, would she have been sought in
marriage at the age of 80 by one OF
the greatest men Of his time? True
she is known to have retained her
beauty to an extraordinary degree. but
that alone and of itself would no. be
a Cufficient explanation Of this fact
In her history.
But what of the women who belong
t, the 80 much larger class, who, with
cut that rare quality Of charm can
both attract and retain the admiration
aud affection-whether of women or of
men?
Evidently, II we reflect we find that
to be what is known either as "a mans
woman" or "a woman's woman" there
must be some powerfully attracting
quality.
Now, what is this quality? The sub
ject seems to fall into two divisions.
Observation and reflection point to the
conclusion that an admired and be-
loved woman exercises wholly different
qualities to win the different sexes
I.aN fo In yyh oh noak
pleases men and what Is 1t which most
pleases women?
The mans woman, 1t would seem, is
very sure to possess, In some form. the
quality known as feminine. She need
not of necessity be weak and helpless
indeed, that form of the feminine
may attract, but 1t will not hold-but
she must have some of the qualities
which specially differentiate her from
man. She must give him, In their
whole relation, what he could not get
from any man friend, as social or
reiatIve-the quality which Goethe calls
1.-The eternal feminine"
An experienced woman who knew
men pretty well once said to the writer
that there was one appeal to which
she had never known any man fail to
respond-and that was certain sort
OF cowardice In woman.
Let any woman, she said, no matter
how commonplace or ugly, become ter
rified by tramp or burglar, or even
describe herself as having been so,
and adds: You men have no concep-
ton Of what that feeling is in poor,
defenseless woman" and the man will
respond to 1t as a cat to stroking!
And why is this? What quality In
man does this course in woman ap-
neal to so strongly? Is it his selfish
ness. because he likes the implica-
ton of his superior mental and physi.
cal strength? Or Is 1t his unselfishness,
because he is touched by the helpless
ness of another? Whichever It may
be. the fact remains that. although q
man may express approval Of plucky
conduct in woman, It appeals to MIN
on the masculine lines, and he pays it
the same sort of tribute that he would
pay a man, which IL an abstract COM
meDdation that has nothing to do with
love or tenderness or any strong GER
sonal emotion.
And as a man likes the woman who
depends on him and reaches out for
his support. In like degree, on the
other hand, he despises a man for
those qualities. All Of which goes to
prove that, just 20 surely as man
demands of men to be manly, he de-
mends of women to be womanly.
Trustfulness and dependence being IN
herent parts of "the ever woman /"
these are essential qualities In the
mans woman. There may be many
others that attract, but unless these
be there also the others will fail Of
their due effort, and while woman
may be complimented and approved BY
men without possessing these quail
Ties. she will not be loved or chosen
granted the quality of true manliness
In the men,