El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-24
A Wall of Real Woe
The same Being From a Young
Girl Who BemOans the Fact
OF Her URliness-DOrOthy
Dix Gives Her Some
Advice.
- Nv M
By Dorothy Di1

T ISTEN to this vail of woe
A young girl writes;
- I'm a girl of 19 years Of age,
and have about given up this eternal
strife to live. I an in despair, and have
no longer a desire to exist in this cruel
world. And my. reason is this:
Il am short 1 am fat. I have a
flat, broad nose and a bad complexion
No matter WHIT exercise 1 take. how
much L Diet, my skin is still sallOW
and rough
Every girl desires to be pretty. at
trGctive. and have people love her but
in my case, wherever I go, the people
that / meet look at me once, and If
they are nice 10 me its because they
feel it's their duty TO be kind to q
I Snow what YOU will say. Try to
be nice in other ways; try TO be good,
kind and honest. and that VIII com
pensate YOU for other things Oh, no.
il won't / nave tried, and with the
result that people say oh, yes, she's
a good girl, but SHE'S so plain
Il long TO so out with other young,
people and have beau OF my very
own. Why. the boys won't look twice
at me The only thing that helps
woman along in this world IS beauty
don't think it's fair that some should
have il all and others should have
nothing. II makes me even doubt the
justice of God
III not be hypOcTitical enough to tell
this fOrlOrn little sister that it does nOr
make any difference whether SRI
is plain or hOmely. and tnat it's better
to have a beautiful soul than IL is 10
have a peaches and cream compile NlOu-
Speaking from a mundane standpoint,
when we are 10 years old, il does mat
ter a lot to our happiness whether we
are living pictures or not and lily
skin is a more present adVant9Ee than
il is to possess all OF the cdrIinal VIZ
tues and then some.
No. There is no use in frying TO
take the sting out Of LONELINESS y
minimizing the power OF b7dJLv- 1t
is great and potent but It IS not ali
powerful, as NY correspond ant seems
to think, and there is no need 30 de-
ugly dUckHng.
For her consolation 7 would remind
her, first, that beauty IS IN the eye Of
the behoIder, and that there Is no hard
and fixed rule as to what constitutes
pulcnritude III a woman This makes
1t possible for women to give an Illus
Ion OF 5000 looks, where none exists
simply by their dressing. When we
speak OF a pretty woman We mean che
who has made an attractive picture by
the color and charm Of her clothes the.
way her hair is arranged, by the way
she walks and sits, and carries her
self, whether she has got a single good
feature mat would enuLe ner 20 en-
trance in a beauty show or not
Tt is one of the triumphs Of art that
none Of US need be quite as ugly as
nature made Us Dress. like Jhe mantle
Of charity. covers. a multitude OF sins
and no woman need wholly desUGir on
account Of her looks while Heaven still
grants US the boon Of dressmai0ars and
milliners-
Another bit Of consolation tha1 I can
offer my correspondent is that time
will be her friend. and not her enemy.
and that she viii GROW better lpOziug
as the years 90 BY Many an ugly girl
makes a striking and handsome middle
aged woman
Nor should my correspondent despair
OF never being able to marry because I
she is not beautiful Look about YOU.
little girl. at the married women. and
see how few of them are real rivals
Of Lillian Russell
o. course men think they worship
beauty in women They do abstractIy.
but when il comes to marrying they
let some other fellow have the prize
package of good looks, while they
take some palmer maiden. who is not
so much taken up with admiring ner-
self that she hasn't any attention to
bestow on giving the glad hand to a
really remarkably handsome mar
And that's where life evens up
things little sister.