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 Duckng
BY

a L school, when all other topics OF conversation
~ worn out girls always know they start
something by asking the old familiar question:
Would you rather be beautiful clever?"
Up to certain girls all answer I'D rather be
beautiful" and It's only after hope has vanished that
they choose the other alternative.
Generally speaking, the family that produces
perfect beauty has pay very dearly for their dis
tncton. and the bill is usually settled by the beauy's
less attractive sisters There is certain type of girl
who is beautiful In her cradle adorable in the oddling
stage, Fascinating during her tooth period
altogether bewitchng from the time she her
teens
Her path is of triumph and this lovely creature
knows she is beautiful and is conscious of the fact
from the day she is two until she is eighty. She can't
help knowing 1t for it's the first thing she hears
baby and the chant OF praise accompanies her through
her school days the chorus being swelled by her
teachers and elders who say, before her: Isn't Mabel
beautiful child" exactly IL Mabel deaf
dumb and blind to the fact of her charms.
If Mabel grows up a halfway possible creature
she really deserves credit for such fattery she
receives from her parents schoomates, her teach
and others who should know better would turn
much solid little brain than the that's hidden
under MGbes curls Too often Mabel grows into
conscious beauty thoroughly imbued with the fact
that the universe made sort of background
for her delightful person. and that her gift OF
beauty Is something for which she deserves great
credit and praise the eternal sacrifice her
ilys unselfish devotion
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clothes the best looking hats all the little extra
fneries, naturally gravtae toward the prettiest girl
in the family, who really does them while
her less attractive sisters graciousy permitted
wear out Mabe's old dresses and things. 1t is for
them that the arts of the dressmaker and mliner
should be especially recommended
Generally, Mabel marres early for marriage is her
aim and end, and If she is still beautiful after the
of thirty 1t is because brain and work have been
added to her natural attrac&iveness for the Mabel
type doesn't stay beautiful long, and nothing
heard of her after her brief reign belle though
Of her
Importance.
The ugly duckling, especially if pretty
tiers relatives begins life with dreadful handicap
and just Mabel Is told how sweet she is the poor
little ugly duckng is informed with brutal frankness
certainly beauty
If you are an ugly duclling find out what good point
have, for everybody has one at least Cultivate
that point If it is your hair your hands, the
walk or the quality of your voice; make the
most of that
Don't think that you let yourself go in any way
either in your Dress manners because you not
as good looking as the other girls.
When you have exhausted your outward resources of
beauty remember that there is great field
discovered country of the mind and lovely DISPOSE
ton which has attractions greater than pretty face
for many men and women. and that is field in which
YOU can own just as much are capable of deve
opng.
Beauty up to twenty-five is mostly physical. After
that it is more and more question of disposition
character and mentality, with enough vanity to care
for outward appearances