Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-30
Why Handsome Women Marry Ugly Men

OF manner, was the pet of the ladies in |
This own circle OF society. and II any
body asked Tor him "A a reception or a
ball the answer was invariably Seek
him wherever you find bunch OF pretty
women. He will be IN the center" Mrs.
spalding. a rich widow, famed for her
beauty and wit. carried off Lord Broug-
ham. and was envied by all the hand
some unmarried women.
Marat the monster OF the French rev.
olution, was as repulsive of face as OF
character, yet he had to run away from
Paris time and again for few days to-
escape the attentions OF loye-sick, pretty
women.
ON the surface the fascination ugly men
have for pretty women may seem mys-
terious. but the explanation is almost
childishly simple, and rests upon one OF
the great fundamental facts of nature.
Between the sexes the attraction is not
OF similarity, but OF opposites. No man
admires the mannish woman, and no
woman but has a repulsion for the ef-
Terminate man. Whenever this law ap-
pears TO be broken you will find that
one or the other has transgressed his or
her sex limitations. Sometimes a weak
and tlmorous woman's soul gets into a
mans body, or woman's courage and
strength are given to a fran little
woman. and when this happens the man
will marry a dominant. bossy woman,
and the woman viii fall In love with
some puny and sickly man.
The normal man and woman, however,
! are drawn together not by their likes. but
by their differences. and this is why the
beautiful woman is no more attracted 10
n man by his good looks than virile
man Is attracted to a woman who Is big
ana strong and swaggeringly independent
and who apes the dress and manners OF
men. Every real man hates woman
who Is an imitation man.. Every woman
| despises a man who Is an understudy OF
her beauty. Each sex feels that 1t can
do its own little speciality better.
Women dislike handsome men because
| they regard beauty as a distinctly fem
mime provocative. and when man sets
up as their rival they feel like going az
/ Ter him with gun, because he is poach-
ing on their reserves. What business has
a mere man with Greek profile. with a
peachy skin. with languishing eyes and
lashes that make shadows on his cheeks
and natural wavy hairG
II simply fills woman. who is pretty
but stin has TO marcel her hair with
rage and bitterness OF spirit 70 behold
man who has. by the grace OF God the
pulchritude that she has had TO achieve
by art and suffering. Consequently he
makes no hit with her She resents him
as a mistake In nature, an interloper
trespasser-one who Is little better thar
thief and robber.
She doesn't want him around, especially
in the position OF husband, where hei
, own looks w0etS be brought into con
: tinual comparison with his. Heavens. no
she .sn't chat stupid, for she knows tina
ho8vVer equal their pulehrttuae might b
| a. start with. men wear better thar
, women DO their beauty IL built OF sterne
, stuff. and that in a few years she wOul'
not be able TO escape hearing peopl
, wonder what that handE9me Mr.. Smiu
. Co,ld ever have seen In that faded it'll
d M. Smith 20 make him marry hsI
0 Whereas II she. marries an ugly man
. she Win never have a rival near IN
e throne. sho win always cit upon a pedes
I tai and haye her soeptrs as tho beaut
= OF the family
I Another reason that women dislik
n handsome men Is because the instan
men get / per cent above par IN look
Il they become inspfferably vain and COZ