El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-21

a EAUTY in a woman" observed
~ the middle aged man in the cor
ner seat, who wore the ugliest
ties in the whole carriage. beauty in
a woman is a nuisance any time; and i
the woman happens to be your wife
it's dashed nuisance. If a woman
chances to have a bit pinker cheeks
than the ordinary, or a nose that's cut
on slightly better lines than that OF
the woman next door. she at once gets
it into her head that she's a prize
beauty. and that she has to spend her
time looking after ner appearance"
You've perhaps read that some
where, sir" drawled the youth on the
opposite seat, who had spent the time
between the last station and the one
, before in reading letter written on
thick, tinted paper.
'"'TTe perhaps noticed It. snapped
the man with the tie. I've no OBJ
lection to beauty as beauty, for those
who care for that sort Of thing; ana IL
wouldn't matter, providing the women
didn't find out about It. But you can
trust EN- to find out the GOOD looks
they've got long before anybody else
has noticed it. And then they start
making trouble
Il can't follow you said the young
man. "A girl has surely the right 70
make the best OF herself. Indeed
should not say the right, but I should
put 1t as a duty to herself and those
about her to make herself look as nice
What do you mean by looking
'Wen, if she's got pretty hair let
her dress it nicely and show 1t to ad-
vantage. And If she hasn't let her
spend a little time in making II so. Ana
where's the haUm in her looking after
her complexion, keeping her hands SOFT
and so FORTH
my notion Of looking nice is to be
clean and tidy When a 7-oman mas
combed and brushed her hair and pin
ned it round on the top Of her head so
that the ends don't stick out, I don't
reckon she can do much better I've
no use for the frizZing and fuzzing and
curling Start girl on that ana she II
wear out every looking glass IN the
house, so to speak; she'll spend every
sixpence she's got on curling pins and
frizzling LOTIONS. hair-pads and fancy
combs, and she'll waste hours day
playing about with EN-. She'll waste
money and she'll waste time dragging
her hair into sauSages, puffs, rolls and
cork screws. In the same way she'll
throw away time and money in try
ing to get her complexion like the face
OF a pink wax doll, and she'll cover
her face with nasty, sticky stuff every
night, so she can look like a baby in
the morning. As for the soft hands
woman gets them by being wOrk-shy.
They don't want encouraging to be
that nowadays You encourage wo-
man to stop working for day, and
she'll stop for a week"
II don't think men are much differ
ent in that way. But about beauty
1t would be a deuced dull world with
out it If you can't appreciate it, it's
your loss. You seem to look on girls
as machines-to get so much work
done Now, 1 shouldn't care about
wife like that"
That's because you've not had any
experience. The ideal wife is one who
Portable mildly sentimental person
who can cook, some one who finds her
pleasure in the house, and who thinks
more about her husbands comfort than
her own pleasure, and you don't find
women like that among the pretty
onesi"
Useful, but not interesting. You
like them plain-and deadly dull"
NO, not necessarily dull, but a
steady-going, ordinary woman, with no
fancy notions, no ideas in her head
about her beauty. and one who is there
when she's wanted"
There because no one else would
want her eh2 A woman who has no
ideas in her head about herself. has no
IDEAS in her head about anything. A
woman Ike that couldn't hold my af-
lection. What ] want for a wife Is a
companion, not a drudge; one who has
got some ideas-about herself If you
VIII, OF at least about something A
woman whose mind is never out Of the !
kitchen viii pretty soon drive her hus-
band out Of the house. Now, 7 want a
woman who can attract me. because |
then I shall have pleasure in being with I
her. Beauty attracts me; therefore, I
give me beauty in a woman"
1T would cease to attract when the /
dress bills began to come in"
Il reckon it would be part Of my I
duty TO see that she was properly I
dressed. And I should like to help her /
to buy"
Because you would be paving-eh2 |
and would want to prevent her from
getting wildly extravagant2"
mo, because I should try to be in
terested in what interested her; and, /
again, because when she was prettily 4
dressed it would give me as much }