El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-11
Southern Girls More Cordial
Are No Better, No More Charming
Than Northern Girls, but They
Make You Feel More Welcome.
ella Wheeler Wilcox
y ONVERSING with a bachelor

- ONVERSING with a bachelor {
few weeks since. regarding sum
- mer resorts, he remarked: -
have enjoyed this past summer more
than any other for many years. I have
been sOjourning at resort where sew
eral southern girls were stopping, and
confess I found their society parti-
eularly interesting"
Tell me why?'' I asked. rs it that
you find them more beautiful than
our northern or eastern or western
girls?"
mo, I cannot say that 1 do" he an
swered- 4 know the southern girl
has that reputation, yet were mere
beauty the consideration I should find
it difficult to give the palm to any
one locality. In fact there is greater
variety in types of beauty to be found
among northern girls. But the quality
/ find peculiarly pleasing in the south
ern girl is her affability, her seeming
enjoyment Of small pleasures.
She Enjoys Your Society.
''She does not hesitate to tell you she
will be delighted to accept your society
for some occasion when you offer it
and she takes pains afterward to con-
vince you how much she enjoyed her
self
This is wholly unlike the northern
maiden.
-She is dignified and distant. and ac-
cepts your attentions with an air Of
condescension, if not of absolute toll
Grafton. She often imprec-es you as
being bored by your gallantries. The
New England girl is particularly in
different, and at times austere. Perhaps
she has been taught that a man is
piqued to greater effort if a woman is
difficult to approach, but I think the
idea Is a mistaken one Men like TO
think they are agreeable companions
and that an hour or two in their So
ciety is not a bore.
Therefore. this affability and cor
dlaIlty OF the sumner southern girl
are particularly pleasing to them.
confess 1 would seek a resort
winch / knew was frequented by the
southern girl far sooner than one where
only northern bellies congregate."
give this statement just for what
1t is worth-the opinion of one bache-
Yet it is worth the consideration of
young women from all localities.
me austere and glacial manner is
not inviting or becoming in a woman.
me extremely indifferent young WOm-
an IS not the attractive one.
Such Men Hides Selfish Nature.
Such an exterior is sometimes a mask
to a warm heart, but, as a rule, it is an
evidence of a selfish and seIf-centered
and egotistical nature
again, 1t is a cover for painful self
consciousness - the self-conscfousness
which is the result of lack of conf
dence and of self-depreciation.
The New England girl is reared with
an idea that vanity is a sin. and she is
not accustomed to hearing her personal
charms mentioned in her family
The southern girl is reared to hear
compliments from her cradle up, and 10
expect them from her father, brother
and friend. She regards them as the
small coin of society, and they do not
spoil her; but she is better fitted to
enjoy cOmpanionship of the opposite
sex than the girl who has been taught
TO distrust the man who pays a compIi-
ment and to be on her guard against
flatteery.
No Better Than the Girl of the North.
She is not afraid to show pleasure
in the society of men. because she has
grown up in an atmosphere of gal
lantry.
She is no better morally. and usually
not as bright mentally, but she is more
more natural
She makes no better wife or mother
than her sisters Of colder climes. but
she makes better comrade oftentimes
for season And the qualities which
render her so agreeable it might be
Wen for the northern girl to emulate
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.