Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-03

comes handsome to her When a woman hea
some stranger is to be presented to her she doei
at once, "Is he hand5ome?" Nor does she inqui
he young?" 1t is quite the opposite with men.
first question about a woman is always:
pretty%
While do not agree that am marrying In
Freis ugly man, or even a plain man, have
many women who were reDuted to be beautif
welded ugly-faced men. Your own John Jacob
not a handsome man Far from 1t, Yet two b.
women OF quite opposite types married him
Nathaniel Goodwin, wit and fine actor though
is far from handsome man Yet he has had fou
and each of them was beautiful Lembach. tn
German painter said that Maxine Elliott is tn
beautiful woman in the world OF a differen
though like Miss Elliott, a brunette, Is Edna GC
Yet she, with eyes and mind open, became Mr. Go
fourth wife. ~
Why do beautiful women marry men who ar
First perhaps because it is human nature to
value what we possess. have never known b.
woman who really cared much about her beauty
with 1t as her daily companion, she COMES to S
and underestimate it. She knows that it is her
She believes that 1t will help her to get on. Sh,
realize, she suddenly to lose 1t. that great
befallen her But her usual thought about Il 4
fatterng one. Granted this. 1t Is natural that
tiful woman does not demand especial good look.
man she marries
Women admire ugly men because they repres
tinct forces in the world. The men who have do
vellous things are never pretty men, ]. Pierpoi
gan cannot by any strain of the Imagination be {
handsome man, yet women greatly admire him
men, or at least men who are not hand
some are more likely to get on in the
world The very intensity OF their ef-
forts sharpens their features, hardens lazss
their faces, renders them brusque. Yet
women, matter how softly reared,
seem to recognize this.
Another reason why a beautiful woman
marries an ugly man is that even though she
have not a thimbleful of brains herself she
admires them in a man. And I've never yet
known a man who had beauty who had also
sense
woman is quickly bored by the society of
a man who has regular features, good com.
plexion, even splendidy broad shoulders and
an empty head. And very clever men are
beau of France. and John Wilkes of England,
were all hdeously homely. yet each was
counted the most fascinating man of his time
and country, to women. Why? Because they
were men Of the world-conquering forces.
Women like what they lack. That is the
reason some Of them are attracted by brutal
prize fighters The men of the ring have
great physical force, which women lack. And
women are timid and dread to measure their
strength against the worlds. They are the
rabbits OF humanity. That Is the reason they
like men who, to use their own phrase,
"have done things" Oh, "can do things"
Women know that men are warn, yet they
detest in them that quality. II they see
man who makes a picture in his evening
clothes, at once they assume that he is vain,
and they despise him.
Women know that the handsome man Is
fyabout He is not domestic. and they know
that, as a guarantee of their happiness, they
had better choose plain man who will be
content to sit comfortably at his own fireslde
instead of going abroad to be admired.
AS l have studied science Il have thought