Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
Beauty Us. Brains i'm Business

vitality interested in the people on
whom they waited. And this interest
created an atmosphere that brought
people back to 1t. Those who came
once came again. Here was no blase
indifference, no disdainful inattention.
Every girl was like a hostess in her
own drawing room, welcoming guest
and eager to please"
'I know what you mean," said Busy
Girl, but you must admit that men
like beauty"
"They like it," I pursued, 'fn its
proper places But this is plain, cold
hard world, and only business facts
a,peal to businessmen. And 1t is a
mercenary fact that the brainy wom-
an is a better asset than the merely
beautiful one. Then the businessman
who is worth while doesn't care to
make his office a beauty show. In
the first place it's a bit dangerous
and then there's a certain lack of
dignity in choosing employees for their
physical charm. The average employ
er wants the women who work for
him to be neat, well hammered,
capable"
"Well if the plain girls succeed, it's
because the pretty ones get married, ="
| is Busy Girls feminine summing up.
I'VE are not talking of matrimony," p"
I stated severely, "and even there
don't believe that you are right. It's
the girl who puts her mind to it who
gets married I don't mean the Ber-
nard Shaw kind of woman who pur-
sues. but the woman who is clever
enough to know what pleases a man is
the one he marries, not the self-cen-
tered beauty.
"I remember a famous Virginia belle
with whom I went to school in Rich
mond. I was little girl when she
graduated, and all the girls adored her.
Soon the whole state proclaimed her its
most beautiful woman and men came
from near and far to look at her, and
yet I have been told that she received
very few proposals from really eligible
men. She was nearly 40 when she mar
ried a man much older than herself,
with only his money to recommend
him. Men liked to look at her as one
would look at a bargain picture. I go
there on a pilgrimage twice a year,
one of them told me, as would go to
an art gallery. But she doesn't make
my pulses beat one bit faster. And
couldn't possibly contemplate with
ecstasy the idea of living with an oil
painting"
The sooner the busy girl and all other
busy girls get out of their heads the
idea that mere physical charm will get
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the sooner they will be worth while in
business.
Beauty fades-one cannot have a
roseleaf complexion after 80, and eyes
grow dull and figures thicken. But
brains are always with you. They are
your capital. If you use them well
they will bring you back profitable re-
turns, and this is inevitable.
The successful women of the world
are rarely of great loveliness. Look at
the heads of department stores, the
office managers, the buyers, great art
lists. musicians-not many of them
beautiful, but every one with brains.
Every one with a mind which she has
put steadily to the working out Of her
life problem.
do not mean that the pretty girl is
debarred from success. But do argue
that beauty without brains, without
the mind to put it to profitable uses,
is, to use the scriptural expression
vain"
Somehow I like the old Bible phrases,
the beautiful way of putting great
truths, and these verses from the last
chapter of proverbs ring in my ears
as write:
"Favor is deceitful and beauty is
vain, but a woman that feareth the
Lord she shall be praised.
"Give her the fruit of her hands, and
let her own works praise her In the
gates Temple Bailey.