The Washington herald., 1912-03-02

Cheer up. oh ye maidens, who are not
conspicuously endowed with the fatal gift
OF beauty. There are Indications that the
living picture is going to be turned TO
the wall. and that the plain-faced girl
Is about 10 come into her own at last.
| The manager OF a circuit Of moving
picture shows has posted UP a notice
that no venuses need apply for jobs as
:he beauties waste too much time In
flirting with young men who hang
around their boxes and obstruct trade.
and that they are more interested in
their looks than they are In making the
right change. whereas the girl who isn't
sufficiently pdichritudinous to attract at
tention. and who doesn't expect her face
to make her fortune. gets right down to
business and Is worth half a dozen good
lockers.
That's good news, for heretofore a
peaches and-cream complexion. combined
with a willowy figure and a peroxided
coiffure. has been more potent in getting
a girl a good situation than a knowledge
Of how TO spell or add up a column Of
figures correctly. or an ability TO sell
goods However. the best Is still 10 come.
man has written letter TO the regis
trar OF vital statistics Of New Jersey,
asking that official to kindly pick him out
n wife,. as he Is too busy TO hunt one up
for himself. and he says he prefers a
homely, girl TO a pretty one.
What do you think OF that? Isn't that
the rainbow of hope. and the Balm of
Gilead. and all the other consoling things
you can think Of? Also. isn't II an indi-
cation that men are beginning to show
very nearly human intelligence when
they commence realizing that IL is the
plain girl, and not the beauty. who Is
the preferred matrimonial risk?
Divorce Reason.
One OF the reasons that there are so
many divorces Is because in selecting
their wives men have only looked at the
outside OF girls heads, and IL that was
sufficiently painted and kalsomined and
otherwise adorned they have not taken
the trouble to try TO find out how the
said head was furnished inside with
brains Nor. II a girls figure was lis
some and straight-fronted and graceful.
have they stopped 10 investigate as TO
whether there was a warm and loving
and generous heart beneath those en-
trancing curves.
And generally there was neither intel
HktHCc nOT dHeCtlOn. tOr tne beauty II
apt 10 have all of her goods in her show
window, and when the man got tired Of
his pretty doll baby and wanted a wife
who was a real companion and a help
nate. and upon whose unselfish devotion
he could depend. he found that he hadn't
gotten II. Wherefore he shrieked loudly,
'Stung: and rushed for the divorce
court, or else went about with the air
Of an early Christian martyr the balance
Of his life.
Now, OF all things on earth that a
man can marry for. beauty Is the oiI-
liests because there Is an absolute time
limit on IL. and he risks his happiness
on something that he knows himself he
Is bound to lose out upon. Ffve-ten-I
fifteen years Of mstrimony. and where is
q woman's beauty7
Gone! Gone the milk white skin; gone
the roses in the cheeks: gone the en-
trancing dinples and sienderness or
youth; gone the lustrous sheen OF the
hair. No woman OF thirty-five or forty
is physically beautiful II at that age
she is good looking II is not a matter or
skin and hair and figure. She Is lovely
because she has lovely souI-and very
likely she never did have anything in
her youth but a saIeratus biscuit COM.
plexion and hay colored hair.
Yet. in spite Of knowing this. the first |