Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-01
APPEARANCE is AN ASSET.
The World Likes a Clean Looking Man
And Will Trust Him.


And Will Trust Him.
It may not sound like ponderous
and important matter to tell a man
to wash his face and comb his hair
but It is of a good deal more serious
ness than some people like to ina
gine.
Personal appearance counts for
lot. It's with that as old DR.. Johnson
said it was with spelling: It's no
credit to a man to be good speller,
but it's a disgrace to be a bad one.
So one may attract no sr ncial
praise by being we'll dressed; bu. one
Is mighty sure to attract unpleasant
attention If one looks shabby.
And here, as in everything, there's
moderation to be observed. A mans
hair should not be plastered down too
slick, nor his shoes shine toe much'
nor the creases of his trousers be too
sharp, nor his finger nails be too rosy
and rounded, nor his necktie toe new.
But that is no reason his head o
hair should look like rats nest, and
his shoes be rusty, and his trousers
baggy at the knees and frayed at the
bottoms, nor his fingers end in a deep
band of mourning.
There is no denying the fact that
all the world, except the world OF
buns, likes to see clean looking man.
Still more, a neat looking woman.
"I sometimes think we need in our
newspapers more elementary instruc-
ton on the primary things Of life.
Somewhere else than in the advertis-
ing columns people ought to be told
that IL is absolutely essential to brush
the teeth after every meal and that
any kind of an odor about a person,
except that of soap and cleanliness, is
vulgar.
OF course every one knows these
things, but somehow or other we
still know otherwise excellent men
who never have formed the habit of
brushing the dandruff off their coats
before appearing in public, and other
wise clever women who just as we'll
as not might have put on clean col
lar and jabot, and might also have
provided themselves with some sort
of contraption to prevent their hair
stringing down over their faces.
Surely it Is no aim to be despised In
life but to give pleasure to those whom
fate compels to live with US, play with
us, or do business with us. And the
first page in the primer Of being
agreeable ought to instruct us to get
ourselves up in some sort of style that
will be as little Objectionable as pos
sible to our fellow creatures.
1t does not take money to make
ones self presentable; the female
conviction to the contrary notwith-
standing.
1t takes four things: Cleanliness,
care, a disposition to please, and
good taste.
First, cleanliness. So long as there
is water and soap factories are so
busy, anybody that has a mind can
keep clean.
And if any boy or girl reads this
that Is, any person not too old to
learn, it will be worth money in the
pocket and contentment in the body
and self-respect in the soul If said
person will take a bath all over
every morning, even If it has to be ta-
ken in ice water and with a ten cent
sponge.
Girls should know that 1t is not
catty people who are repelled by the
glimpse of the soiled edge Of petit
coat, or a grease spot on the blouse
that some elbow grease and a cents
worth of benzine could have remov-
ed; it's simply decent people.
And boys should know that a gen.
eral air of having slept in ones
clothes and having failed to find the
hair brush is just the same as hoist
ing a flag over ones self and on it the
inscriptions: "Shiftless, Trifting and
Lazy"
Then it takes care. If one thinks
too much of ones appearance, one is
dude, and painful to the eye. But If
all, it is worse. The only way to at
tend to this is to attend to it right
away.
Don't come to breakfast looking
| like a woolly horse from the woods.
Have some regard for the other men,
bers of the household. Ten minutes
spent in making yourself as attractive
as you can will more than repay you.
It's a great deal easier to quarrel
when you are unkempt and frowsy
than when you are neat looking.
Family jars would not be so frequent,
perhaps, if the members of the family
did not grow careless of their looks
in the privacy Of the house.
A disposition to please others is also
necessary. To take no care how you
are clothed when you meet any one is
just the same as saying you don't
care what he thinks of you. A little
attention bestowed upon your person
is a subtle compliment to any one who
| is to see you.
Many a bride who complains of a
falling off Of her husbands attentions
might find the reason, possibly, in her
own selfish laZineSS.
And woman is also a peculiar
| bird. Somebody has said that IL
about az hard to live with woman as
to live without her. But here's one
hint: There is nothing a woman re-
sents more than to perceive that a
man has ceased to care how he looks
in her eyes; that he seems to feel he
does not have to make any more ef-
fort to hold her.
Lastly, good taste. If you haven't
any, borrow some.
OF course, clothes and neatness are
not everything, but they are some
thing. They are little things; but sue
cess and happiness are made up of
little things: and happiness and sue
cess are not little things.
Possibly ones work and duty neces-
states a certain amount of soiling Of
the hands and face and clothing.
| That kind of dirt never Oifends any
sensible person.
But to retain the dirt when the
work is done, to leave the necessary
disorder to lap over into the time of
rest and refreShment. to stay in dirt
because one does not care TO take the
pains to get rid of ii is to fling our in
difference. selfiShneSS and laZineSS
into other peoples faces, is to adver-
tiSt that we want friendship nor