St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-03-16

| h6Tent parts OF the ever woman " d
| these are essential qualities in the
mans woman. There may be many
others that attract, but unless These
Ese there also the others will fail OF
their due effort, and while a 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.
And now as to what makes "a WON.
ans woman" Certainly here the case
is different.
Would it ever delight a woman and
win from her warm emotion to hear
another woman proclaim that she had
shivered with fright at the approach
of tramp? She might sympathize
with the feeling and for the very rea-
son OF its comprehensibility to her il
would fail to arouse in her any espe-
| cial interest. AS a matter of fact
observation seems to prove that the
woman's woman is pretty apt to have
certain qualities Of the manly in her
| These, of course, must never be of the
g1osser sort; indeed, they must be dis
gnised, as it were, and appear only In
| their ultimate effect.
| But observe closely the women
| whom other women seek in compan-
| ionship, and extol to others, and see
If there is not something which salts
| fn
to be led, to be supported, which is OF
A piece with mans attractiveness to
women. Let a woman-granting her
some personal attractions, of course
! show herself capable to lead in
| thought, in opinion, in public or pri-
vate action, and see If she will no!
have, at once, host of admirers IN
| her own sex. If she has real powers,
| she will have them in the other sex,
also, but see if the quality be not diff
ferent With men, it will be an attrac-
ton, tribute to what she does, rath-
er than to herself, while with women
| it will be more personal matter. They
60 to hear her speak, rather than to
hear her speech, and when they come
away they say: Isn't she interesting:
Isn't she wonderful?' while the male
portion of the audience will speak only
of her subject and the manner OF Its
treatment.
The truth Is "the ever womanly
| has little charm for women, perhaps
because familiarity breeds contempt
| ~ 4oJ~ al
cause nothing is so fascinating as mys-
tery-a quality which seems even more
Worthily rendered by the French word
mystere.
In this connection it may be inter
esting to consider what may be The
/ effect of the present tendency toward
equalizing the attributes of the two
sexes. It has been claimed that If,
/ in becoming voters and bread-winners
women must needs lose some OF tac1i
femininity, men, on the other hand
would be gamers, from the fact thai
/ the association of the two sexes at the
polls and in places of business would
tend to impart to them some OF ths
!
posed to be the attributes of woman
This being so, the two sexes would
become more alike and, what, in eff
feet, would be the loss, and sain from
| this?
No doubt, in the sense of practical
utility, the gain would be great, fol
the matter of sex, and the considera-
ton which is at present demanded fol
women, Is often nuisance in the
rough and tumble Of business life, and
any new condition which placed the
sexes more on level would make mat
/ tors simpler for working purposes. But
on the other hand, how great would
! be the loss to the other side OF mems
/ and womens natures! The disappear
! apce of that element of mystery which
constitutes so large part of the pow
er OF attraction between the sexes
would make life somewhat tame af-
fair for each of them. Unquestion-
ably, if the mental, the psychic and
the spiritual are to be considered, this
equalizing of the sexes is to be Ge'
| rlored.
These crude observations would
seem to suggest that behind this elu'
sive, indefnable, seemingly capricious
subject of attraction there rests a Ger
/ tain law, albeit it may seem to con
tradict other postulates which are &C.
| cepted as laws. We have the axiomat.
| ic deductions that birds Of a feathes
flock together and that like seeks
like.
These, no doubt, are good working
principles, and may be applied in &
general way, but when we come tt
anything SO subtle and so psychic a:
this secret attraction between human
beings it would seem that it is regu.
lated by the law OF opposites. The
mans woman, therefore, is she who
has some essential qualities of woman,
illness in her, and the woman's woman
must possess some essential qualities
of manliness, while the most attractive
and retaining of al is the woman
| whose quality def1es all definition, who
draws all the world to her, men, WON.
en- and children alike, because of hel
inherent possession OF that rarest anC
| least to be analysed of all qualities
for which we find no better word thar
that potent little monosyllable, charm
| fnrroip RI that