The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-06
MEN SLAVES TO BEAUTY.
Lament of a Woman With an Unal-
Turing Face.
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That men are slaves to beauty is
fact which every woman who lack
that quality recognizes with a pang
Virtues of one sort and another mas
culinity dwells upon in its tale wha
goes to make the perfect wife. Then i
PUSHES out and marries a beautiful
creature who lacks them.
! 1t isn't remarkable that our brother
weak as water and unstable as the
wind should regard good looks as OF
! prime Importance in the other sex
! What is remarkable is the naive man.
ner in which he admits this fact
i hate to talk to a homely woman,
! said man the other day. when
do converse with a girl, as she has
not sense enough to talk well about
the stock market, politics, Or horse rae
ing, l demand that she shall be beau
tiful. Since 1 must talk down to he1
about things which are of no interest
to me, i insist that she shall be pretty
enough to justify the waste of time"
He made this remark to a feminine
friend who is not handsome, but who
has an abundance of spirit. And
what about the woman's end of it?"
she cried. You are not at all good
looking. You are not even particularly
entertaining. What compensation has
she for wasting time on you?''
1t was new point of view entire
ly, and it irritated his lordship. There
are some people who think 1 am not
so unpresentable," said he, and went
away and never came back.
4 don't demand that q woman be
beautiful said another man. "All l
ask is that she have a mice figure,
dress well, so that a fellow will be
proud to be seen on the street with her.
have large and expressive eyes and a
sweet voice.
He was a commonplace looking man
with no marked fascinations His own
eyes were small and not particularly
expressive, his voice was not sweet,
but he demanded the best.
TO be born with face that does
not attract is a terrible affliction. .
sighed a young woman not long ago.
Now, take my own case, for instance.
When man is introduced to me at a
function he says few polite words
and then edges toward, some pretty
girl of his acquaintance, Occasional
ly, if there is no pretty girl or other
means Of rescue in sight he has per-
force to stop and chat with me. Then
1 work as better favored women never
do. 1 am as fascinating as l can
imagine. 1 play upon his vanity. find
out his pet hobby, get him to talk
ing about it or himself and sometimes
manage to so interest him that later
when there is a beauty about he does
not desert me for her
AT a dance, when my reluctant
partner finds that I do this rather we'll.
he is sometimes nice and attentive to
me during the evening. but generally
speaking I am handicapped seriously
in the race for attention. l have never
known single man, not an old friend,
to pick me out to talk to or dance
with when there was a more attractive
girl about one with dimples and curls.
for instance. Many times the men who
protest at being asked by a hostess
to sit beside me at dinner are them
selves homely and awkward besides,
but sometimes I think that the uglIer
the man the more attractive he de-
mands that the girl he pays attention
to shall be.
Women are rather attracted to
homely women. Men seldom or never
are"