El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-02

comes handsome to her. When woman hear
some stranger is to be presented TO her she dCesT
at once, Is he handsOme? Nor does she inquire
he young?" It is quite the opposite with men
first question about Z woman is always: u
pretty?"
While do not agree that am marrying IN
Freis an ugly man. or even plain man. have
many women who were reputed to be beautiful
welded ugly-faced men Your own John Jacob As
not handsome man Far from it. Yet two bea
women OF quite opposite types married him
Nathaniel Goodwin. wit and fine actor though
is far from handsome man Yet ne has had four
ard each Of them was beautiful Lembach the
German painter. said that Maxine Elliott is the
beautiful woman in the world Of a different
though like Miss Elicit a brunette, is Edna Goo
Yet she. with eyes and mind open. became Mr.. Coco
fourth wife.
Why DO beautiful women marry men who are
First perhaps because it is human nature to Z
value what we possess. ! have never known bea
woman who really cared much about her beauty.
With il as her daily companion. she comes to Sill
and underestimate II She knows that it is her
She believes that it will help her TO get on she
realize were she suddenly to lose it. that great los
5efallen her. But her usual thought about it is
Aattering one. Granted this. it is natural that a
tiful woman does not demand especial good looks
man she marries
Women admire ugly men because thew .renraso,
unct forces in the world The men who have doDe
vellous things are never pretty men J PierDo1f
gan cannot by any strain Of the Imagination no 90
handsome man, yet women greatly admire him
some, are more likely to get on in the
world The very intensity OF their eff
forts sharpens their features. hardens
their faces, renders them brusque. Yet
women, matter how softly reared
seem to recognize this.
Another reason why n beautiful woman <
marries an ugly man is that even though she
have not thimbleful Of brains herself. she
admires them in a man And I've never vet
known man who had beauty who had also
sense
woman IS quickly bored by the society Of
man who has regular features a good COM
plexiOn. even splendidly broad shoulders and
an empty head. And very. clever men are
usually hOmely. Gambetta Of Italy: Mira
beau. Of France. and John Wilkes. Of England,
we're all hideOusly hOmely, yet each was &C
counted the most fascinating man OF his time
and country. TO women. Why2 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 mer Of the ring have a
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" o.. "can Go things"
Women know that men are VAN vet they
detest in them that quality. If they see a
man who makes a picture in his evening
clothes at once they assume that ne is vain,
and they despise HIM
Women know that the handsome man is
hvabout He is not domestic, anu they know 4
that IS a guarantee Of their happiness. they
had better choose plain man who viii be 7
coDtent TO sit comfortably at his own fresids ]
instead Of going abroad to he admired
AS I have studied science have thought