The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-01-12
Girls Should Be Natural
BY Dorothy Dix

BY Dorothy DIX
II wonder" said a man the other
day, If there are any more simple,
natural, girly girls, who are the kind
of the girls the Lord made EN-, and
don't pretend to be anything else,
left in the world?
''lf there are, never meet them.
Every girl that run across is throw
| ing bluff at being something or
somebody entirely different from
what she is. and she isn't getting
away with the job.
She's ridiculous, as all poseurs
are and she's unattractive to men
because we men are simple creatures
with simple ideas and simple tastes,
and an unfortunate partiality for
genuine, instead of spurious, articles.
It's pity that somebody doesn't
rise up and tell girls that the two
qualities that men admire most in
woman are naturalness and SINGER
ity. That's where the milk maid
and the country lassie have always
won out.
Its artlessness, not artfulness,
that catches a mans fancy, and hon
estly ! could weep for sympathy over
the mistakes 1 see dear little girls
making, who would be charming if
they would only be themselves, and
who are SO silly and tiresome when
they are affecting to be something
that they are not, but which they
falsely suppose that men admire
Take, for instance, vivacity, When
vivaGity is an attribute that girl
is born with, when she has quicksil-
yer in her veins and devil in her
eyes and a bright outlook on life and
a laugh that is like a peal of silver
bells, she makes a gay and delight
ful companion. But it's because her
is spontaneous and un
forced.
"IIere comes along a girl of an
entirely different type, a girl who is
sober as a judge, and who couldn't
see a joke even after it was diagram
med for her, but she's heard viyacity
praised in another girl, and so She
giggles and smirks and smiles until it
makes your face ache to look at her
grin, and she's so noisy
and tiresOmc that she makes man
want to run off and hide where he
nan get out of earshot of her voice
and her cackle.
"And there's the girl who poses
rs being literary or artistic or musi
al, and who feels called upon to
wear slinksey clothes and never comb
Ter hair and to 90 about with rapt
ook in her eyes.
'ln reality her tastes are for Ma
lie Corelli and chromos and ragtime,
,ut she talks in soulful way about
bsen and Sudermann and technique
md coloratura until she gives YOU
he fantods and man would go sew
n miles to avoid meeting her.
If she'd go along and talk about {
he common, everyday subjects she
Understands, men would like her and
he'd have plenty of beaux, but the
verage man doesn't care hang
bout what Browning thought he
hought, or high browed conversa- F.,
ion, and he's going to let the girl ,
everely alone who hands out that .
inc Of talk to him. |
I've known more than one girl |
Hiss good husband by always lug
ing around copy ow Materlinch =
18th her.
"Then there's the girl who pre-
ends to be great bells, and who al
'ays tells every man she meets what Il
heart-smasher she is. and how this h
ian keeps her in flowers, and that q
ian in candy, and another worries W
le life out of her dragging her R
round to theaters, and how she told k
mother man that she just wouldn't HI
D out in his car more than seven B
mes week, and hoy many million tv
res are on their knees entreating tt