The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-12
WHY MANY OF THE GOOD
 WOMEN REMAIN SINGLE

| The question has been asked, "Why are many of the very best women un- married-women who ought to be the mothers of many children and who could be persuaded to marry if only so many. fairly able men would stop falling in love with pink and white geese"
 When a very good woman, who Is mentally, morally and physically fitted to be an excellent wife and mother re- mains unmarried. it Is rarely from Q choice, says The Indianapolis News. She would not be a normal wonsn worthy of being called among the very best" If she preferred going through life alone.
 One in a score of such cases will be found who Is clinging to a memory of vanished dream. Look in her Lpalm and you will find the amount of the imagination abnormally developed and the ideality large. She visits Q grave in the cemetery or In her heart daily and cherishes a withered flower and a package of yellow letters, and thinks of herself as a widow, recently bereaved.
 But for the other nineteen women who have remained single various ex- plantations can be made. l Some of them have been loved and wooed by the wrong men. while the right man has passed on the other side of the street.
 But most of them have been too good or too we'll educated. or too ac- complished, to think of the art Of | fascination.
 Some women-many-are born with | this knowledge. It is a talent, like any other which brings success in its own line.
 Pink and white geese" are espe- cially. gifted in the arts of fascination. They know how to win men, but they do not all know how to keep them in love after they win them.
 The wiser a man is the more studi- ous; and the more serious. the more | likely he is to be attracted by pink and white goose" She leads him into a new realm-and all men love new realms.
 A studious and wise man does not feel drawn toward a studious and wise | woman unless she knows how to hide her erudition under a charming guise | of frivolity.
 Some of them do. A brilliant and accomplished and earnest woman sometimes possesses this gift of fasci- nation. It is not confined to the pink and white geese.
 Good men frequently become infatu- ated with bad women. It Is not the immortality which attracts them, but the power of pleasing and fascinating which those women possess.
 It is well for the highly virtuous and moral woman to consider this sub ject She might be benefited by read ing Balzac's dissertation on the moral and immoral woman in Cousin Bette '
 One thing is certain-mere goodness and refinement do not attract man. kind, unless they are associated with charm-that indefinable quality-any more than the ingredients of a salad please the appetite without the addi- tion of a dressing. Some prefer mayon- naise, some French dressing but 9 dressing there must be.
 Immoral women and pink and white geese" invariably strive to be interesting to the eye, and the mosr succesnful of them posses the tact not to weary the ear. They seem not to know too much and to be appeal ing and unprotected" and In need of a defender.
 Before marriage man likes an in- efficient and helpless woman. In time he may outgrow this taste for lack of food to supply 1t; but 1t is his natural appetite, and asserts itself in spite of his reasoning powers.
 Good and efficient wives are excel lent possessions; but the good and ef. fcient and self-sufficient girl does not attract unless she has other qualities which appeal to the masculine mind
 As good as the best, as fascinating Is the worst-that Is the sort of wo man that men are seeking; and 1t |. to be regretted that virtue so ofter feels a contempt for fascination ans classes 1t among the immoralities in stead of bringing 1t into the virtues