El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-18
Women and Pretty Men
Woman Wants the Beauty Reserved
to Herself; In Man She Wants
Man, Not Beauty.
DOrorhv
Men

= n Berlin, where a mans a man and
a husbands a husband and hard
Il to get no matter what sort OF
face he has on him, Fraulein Derben
has organized a society that is called
The League Against Beauty
The members of this organization are
all young women, and they have
pledged themselves to marry only ugly
men, on the theory that handsome hus-
bands make more unsatisfactory life
partners than homely ones, and that
in matrimony pretty is as pretty does
American girls will probably not
find it necessary to form a protective
league to guard themselves against
youths who are cursed with the fatal
gift of beauty, ApOllos not being over
~ plentiful in this country, however
common they may be IN Germany
Indeed, in America the living picture
man finds scant favor either with his
own or the opposite sex, and we do
not exalt the dandy who is the glass
of fashion and the mold Of form to a
pinnacle and initiate him. We throw
bricks at him and laugh at him.
On the contrary, when you tell a
woman about a man in whom you wish
to interest her, she practically never
asks a question about his physical ap-
pearance. His looks, provided he is
not a defOrmity and has the appear
ance of a gentleman, do not count with
her. What she wants to know Is
whether he is intelligent, and strong5
whether he knows how to talk and
entertain her, and particularly what
he has achieved, whether he has made
something out of his life, or is one OF
the also rams"
OF course. beauty is a gift Of the
gods, and if a man can have that IN
addition to all the other desirable quail
ificatiOns he is just that much TO the
good A woman would naturally rath-
er contemplate an Adonis than other
wise, but a mans looks cut a very
small figure in her estimate of him.
Let him be charming in manners, glib
in speech, a good dancer, and especially
know how to take care of a woman,
and do the little things just right, and
the man with carroty hair, no eye
brows- a snub nose and a stUmpy fig
ure can back the classical featured
six foot tallor's dummy off of the board
any day.
But can you imagine a fat. dumpy.
bald headed woman ever being a belle,
or men deliberately seeking her out as
a partner for the dance and rejoicing
IN being seen in public with herr
Never Such a woman might be the
most gifted creature on earth and a
peoIect angel Of goodness. yet no man
would ever take the trouble to look
beyond her homely face and see the
superlative beauty OF her soul.
In reality, it is not to much to say
women rather resent than admire
beauty IN men 1t is a poaching on
their own preserves, the invading of a
field they hold sacred to themselves.
If nybody is going 10 be admired. a
woman knows the tributes to be IT.
She wants the tributes laid at her feet,
and not to be compelled to scatter
roses before a man and tell him what
beautiful eyes he has, and how
exquisitely his hair grows, and what a
magnificent straight front figure he
possesses
If there's going to be any Beauty
and the Beast business in her family
she wants to qualify for the role OF
Beauty.
Another reason why women do not
care for a superabundance of good
looks in man is because a handsome
man is invariably Unfortunately vain.
with the vanity that makes the vain
est woman seem humble and selfde-
precating-
An instructive sense Of selfurotec-
tlon makes women choose homely men
ar husbands They may like to feast
thelr eyes occasionally upon a mat
lnee nero, but when they 90 home they
want something more than 4 living
picture in the house They want a
man. and II he's intelligent. and good,
ana KIND and generous. they don't care
a button about his looks