El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-11
Beauty and the Beast
Another Sparkling ''Right-O' Story This Time Dealing
With Pulchntude
By DOROTHY DIX.

.Lr SEE" said the stenographer,
that the artistic sense Of my
u sex has at last asserted itself
Heretofore men have been the real
beauty lovers. and have refused to pay
any attention to a girl unless she was
long on pulchritude. whereas women
were tickled to death to receive atten-
lions from a man, no matter what sort
Of a locker he was.
ALSO the loss Of her complexion and
figure has been held to be sufficient to
justify a man in sidestepping his wife.
while a woman was expected to be
faithful to her husband even II he did
get tO-be bald headed and weigh ton.
But all that's going to be changed,
for the artistic side Of WOmen's natures
has been cultivated and they are go
ing in for beauty, too. In proof where
of is the case reported from California
by the newspapers, in which a girl
broke off her engagement because her
sweetheart fattened up"
Not the Time to BE Particular.
with the matrimonial market in the
depressed condition IL is now. it's no
time TO look a gift fiance IN the belt"
replied the BoOkkeeper Warningly; "a
girl is lucky to get husband in these
DAYS, no matter Wnetner ne IS punt on
the early gothic or the bay-Window
style OF architecture"
That's the way women used to look
at the matter" agreed the Stenograph-
er; they've been more liberal about the
living picture business than men have.
II a man was agreeable and intelligent
we haven't turned him down on his
personal appearance, as men do a
woman"
Just think II a fat, puffy, red
faced woman, with no eyebroys and a
bald spot the size Of a soup plate on
top OF her head should 90 to a ball.
she would paper the wall for a thou
sand years before any man ever asked
a gentleman TO engage in a converse
tion with her, he would do IL with the
air OF an early Christian martyr
But you can see women every day
gurgling with delight over the com
partnership OF such a looking man The
lack OF hair doesn't bar a man from
society, but the reputation OF having a
bald spot would be a bigger handicap
for a woman than the worst aspersions
on her character II a man has gray
matter inside Of his skull what he has
on the outside doesn't count But II
woman lacks the looks, she might have
all the virtues OF the beautitudes and
no man would ever get near enough 10
her to find ii out"
Ugly Woman Makes Him Crosseyed-
IAN ugly woman sure does make me
crOsseyed," said the Bookkeeper- None
OF your danes with the fixed faces for
mlner"
You're in the chorus strong" re-
turned the Steuographer, and that's
what makes being a woman the hardest
Job that any human being ever tackled.
No matter what a woman does she's
got to add the beauty friu to it. II a
man wants to hire a male clerk OF
stenographer or bOokkeeper all he asks
is that he knows how to do the work.
He may be ugly enough to stop the
clock and IL doesn't cut any ice with
his job. but a woman has got to be a
good locker as well as a good worker
and that isn't all Even the women
who do the big things have to carry q
side line Of beauty. When a woman
writes a big book or makes a big scien-
tific discovery the newspaper accounts
always say that she's very handsome
and an elegant dresser
Men don't have TO do the living pic