Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-14
Copyright, b, Joseph u. Borlts.)

Ono often hears The expression: "Oh.
she's mans woman." or She's q
woman's woman." and certainly the
differentiation Is just. Occasionally
IL happens that the two are com
bined in one person, and then
we may. with the exactness 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 we
meet with II half dozen times in n
Iiic we may think ourselves fortunate.
We are sure that Cleopatra possessed
II, all the more go 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
raic. but as all things are relative
in this life. 1t would seem that. COM
pared to that precminent power which
we call charm. beauty is but com
mon and everyday affair.
beauty without charm will attract,
but not retain. while charm without
beauty will both draw and hold the adj
rii-ation. Sometimes the two exist to-
geihcr, as in the case OF Nine. Reca-
r1icr. 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 so by one OF
the greatest men OF his time? True
she Is known to have retained her
beauty 10 an extraordinary degree. but
that alone and OF itself would not be
a snflcient explanation of this fact
In her history.
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But what OF the women who belong
t., the so much larger class, who, with
cut that rare quality OF charm can
both attract and retain the admiration
aud affectlon-whether OF women or OF
men?
Evidently. II we reflect We find that
to be what b known either as "a MN e
woman" or "a woman's woman" there
nuss be some powerfully attracting
quality.
Now. what is this quality? The sub
iect 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
What Is 1t in women which most
plnases men and what is 1t which most
peases women?
The mans woman, 1t would seem, IL
vary 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 difierentiate her from
mar She must give him, in theit
whole relation, what he could not get
from any man friend as social or
reiatlve--the quality which Goethe calls
the eternal feminine"
AN experienced woman who knew
men pretty we'll once said to the writer
that there was one appeal to which
size had never known any man fail to
respond-and that was certain sort
OF cowardice in woman.
Let any woman, she said, no matte,
how commonplace or ugly, become ter.
fled by tramp or a burglar, or even
describe herself as having been so
and adds: You men have no coucep.
tion OF what that feeling is in a poor
defrnseess woman and the man Will
IN, O.
And why is this? What quality ir
man does this course in woman an.
real to so strongly? Is 1t his selfish
ness, because he likes the implica.
ton Of his superior mental and physi-
cal strength? Or is it his unselfshness
because he is touched by the helpless
ness OF another? Whichever it may
be. the fact remains that, although g
man may express approval OF plucky
conduct in woman. ii appeals to min
on the masculine lines, and he pays II
the same sort of tribute that he would
ply man, which is an abstract com.
mendation that has nothing to do with
love or tenderness or any strong yer.
sonal emotion.
And as a man likes the woman who
depends on him and reaches out Tor
his support, in like degree, on the
Other hand he despises man for
those qualities. All OF which goes 10
prove that. just so surely as a man
demands of men TO be manly, he de
Nands of women to be wonanly.
Trnstfulness and dependence being IN