Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
The Making of a Pretty Girl
The Spoiled Ch the Self Beauty and the Ugly Ducing


A 7 school, when all other topics of conversation
~ are worn out girls always know they start
something by asking the old familiar question;
Would you rather be beautiful clever?"
Up to age girls all I'D rather be
beautiful" and it's only after hope has vanis hed that
they choose the other alternative.
Generally speaking, the family thai produces
perfect beauty has pay very dearly for their dis
ncton and the bill is usually settled by the beauty's
less attractive sisters There is certain of girl
who is beautiful in her cradle adorable in toddlng
stage fascinating during her second tooth period
altogether bewitchng from the she her
teens.
Her path is one of triumph and this lovely creature
knows she is beautiful conscious of the fact
from the day she until she is eighty She can't
help knowing it for it's the first thing she hears
baby and the chant of praise accompanies through
her school days the being sweled by her
teachers and elders who say, before her: Isn't Mabel
beautiful child" exactly If Mabel deaf
dumb and blind the fact of her charms.
If Mabel grows into halfway possible creature
she really deserves credit for such hattery she
receives from her parents her schoomates her teach
ers and others who should know better would turn
much solid little brain than the that's hidden
under Mabefs curs Too often Mabel grows into
conscious beauty thoroughly imbued with the fact
that the universe made as q sort of background
for her delightful person and that her gift OF
beauty is something for which she deserves great
credit praie the eternal sacrifice of
y's unselfsh devotion
have often wondered why it is that the prettiest
clothes the best looking hats, all the little extra
fneres, naturally gravitate toward the prettest girl
in the family. who really does them while
her less attractive sisters graciousy permitted to
them that the of dressmaker and milliner
should be especially recommended
Generally, Mabel marrtes early for marriage is her
aim and end, and il she is still beautiful after the
of thirty 1t is because brain and work have been
added to her natural aJtractiyeness for the Mabel
doesn't stay beautiful long, and nothing much is
heard of her after her brief reign belle, though
she from the consciousness of her
Importance
The ugly duckling. especially if she has pretty
ters relatives, begins life with dreadful handicap
and just Mabel is told how sweet she is, the poor
little ugly ducklng is informed with brutal frankness
by her nurse. and often by her mother that she is
certainly beauty.
If you an ugly duckling find out what good point
you have, for everybody has one. at least Cultivate
that point if ii Is your hair your hands, the
you walk the quality of your voice; make the
most of that.
Don't think that can let yourself go in way,
either in your manners. because you not
good looking the other girls.
When you have exhausted your outward resources of
beauty remember that there is great field. un-
ton which has attractions than pretty face
many. and women and that is a field in which
you own just much you capable of deve-
oping.
Beauty up to twenty-five is mostly physical After
that it is and question of disposition.
character and mentality, with enough vanity to care
outward appearances