Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-12
DO YOU THINK YOUR
FACE Is YOUR FORTUNE
If So Keep it IIIunined
With Smiles.
(By Dolly Madison.l

al yOu ono Vi Tie SlIAS NuO u6pGuu
upon beauty for success in life. Are
you dreaming of the worlds you will
conquer because your skin is fair, your
teeth white, your hair shining, your
lips scarlet?
If you are, the sooner you stop
dreaming the better, because you may
meet a rebuff like the milymaid in the
nursery rhyme
What is your fortune, my pretty
maid?t"
My face is my fortune, Sir, she
said"
" Then 1 won't marry you, my
pretty maid.
=" Nobody asked you to, sir" she
said.
/ can imagine that the milkmaid's
feelings were hurt when she. flung
back that answer. She had triumphed
in her loneliness, yet it had failed tc
conquer. That the man was a fortune
hunter did not comfort her-all men
have hearts and what was money waen
weighed against her face and figure?
One wonders if she had sighed
Alas, l am so sorry, kind sir,
she said,
whether he might not have sympathiz-
ed with her, and sympathizing, would
have found his hard heart softened.
That is the trouble. Beauty is so
often defiant that it repels. Men are
half afraid of it, A man said to me
once: Il like to go and look at that
girl as if she were a picture in an art
gallery, but just as The Horse Fair
or any other great painting would be
impossible for my walls, so would she
be impossible for my hearthstone."
Therefore, if you would have your
beauty win meas hearts you must
combine with it graciousness and re-
sponsiveness These are qualities
which make some average girl carry
off a matrimonial prize while her
handsomer sisters stand amazed and
demand What did he see in herr"
Did you ever notice that the average
girls are married first? Not the very
ugly girls are the very pretty ones? l
think this is because the average girl
believes in a certain give-and-take. She
does not demand too much Shells in
dependent. but not arrogant; she is
sympathetic, but not meek. The &C
knowledged beauty wants all men to
bend the knee to her, while the ugly
girl is apt to kneel before the object of
her alteration. And neither attitude
for while goddess on a pedestal, or
take pity on a slave, but in the end he
wants a woman.
In spite of this truth, however, We
women would, each of us, were but
one wish granted by our fairy god
mothers, ask for beauty. We desire it
above everything and all the preach
ing in the world will not convince us
that the lack of it ,lakes for happiness.
Yet have you ever thought of the
tragedy of beauty growing old? To be
a queen dethroned is harder than new
er to have been queen. Therefore,
why should we sigh because of the
lack of loneliness?
And, after all, it is perfectly possible
for the average girl to make her face
her fortune. Faces reflect character.
Lines of discomfort and of temper soon
are craven deep and the joy of loving
lights the homeliest countenance.
Have you heard this before? OF
course, you have, but old truths are
none the less truths. The girl with
the serene smile, the unruffled fore
head, the lips curved in happy laugh
ter, has assets far in excess of the
girl who boasts merely a straight nose
and classic profile.