The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover.
tadeS In his eye and pals upon the
sense.
NNE soon gets used to the face
which is a garden wherein roses
~ and lilies blow. to the eyes which
are great wells of luminous blackness,
to the ears which are pink-tinted shells
from beauty's shore. to arms which
might serve the Venus of Milo in lieu
of her lost brachia.
So. though maiden be fair. most
divinely fair. and most divinely tall,
there still is much to be desired. The
lovely maid should improve her charms
with inward greatness. unaffected
wisdom and sanctity Of manners" As
she queens it over the majority of her
sex in stature, so should she tower
above them in sweetness and gentle
ness, in winning mildness and attract
i've smiles
She should have the talent to con-
ceal her sad thoughts. TO carry smiles
and sunshine in her face, even while
discomfort or trouble sits heavy at her
heart, to hang the golden veil of cheer
fulness over the little dark corner in
her day.
The learned girl. the Lady Mary
Montagu, the graduate. unless she is
uniformly sweet and cheerful. tires the
lover more quickly than the beautiful
girl. Man is dull OK that is easily
stalled and stated and sickened with
learning. If this woman open her
gifted mouth too wide in educational
display. the man may see her teeth and
haf ct
at all favorable to her.
Besides, if she attempt heights OF
praise for this or that high-browed
man of books. her lover may wish he
had the power to stop his ear and
hearken not to the voice of this would
be charmer. charm she never SO wisely.
The wife man wants is not a beau
tiful doll, who opens Ter mouth and
squeaks out impatient words if the
wrong string be pulled, nor soft.
sleek, downy pussy cat that is ever
purring contentment while she is petted
and stroked and that splits and
scratches the minute her fur is rubbed
the wrong way.
Neither desires he the wife whom
much learning hath made conceited.
VIM - 0AlCCA tam anu 4ldlO 10 please, anu
variable in moods as the shade made
by the quivering aspen: who, like the
skyrocket, will shoot of a fusillade OF
brilliant epigrammatic sparks in the
guest-filled parlor, who will spout fiery
streams of epic poetry, to the amaze
ment and admiration of all. yet who,
after her splendid showing of the even
ing, will prove in private to be a mira
Gle of dulness, her dash and sparkle
gone. and she is a veritable stick.
Then is she touchy. too. and ready to
explode like dynamite. A man might as
well rush through powder mill with
flaming torch in his hand as say a jo-
cose ..Booi" to her now-stupid. dull
voiceless goose that she is. The reac-
tion Of spirit has come upon her. ard
she expects her husband TO humor her.
and say soft words. as tuneful as the
voice of the harper harping on his harp.
The unhappy husband recalls the poem
of the two cats that scrapped beneath
the shrunken moon. and of the roof
that at dawn with fiddlestrings was
strewn. His belle Is tangled, out or
tune and harsh.
Aman wants his wife, like his hearth
always bright and cheerful: always
mildly sunny in her smile; always
good-humored; salways and ever the
same woman, before whom he can