Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-01
HERE'S A NEW TYPE OF GIRL
"Ccyscr Girl" Is the Latest Feminine
Discovery Reported From N. Y.

discovery reported From N. Y.
What are the qualities that men
admire most in women?
why Is one girl surrounded. an
other lonely?
Why does some little snub-nosed
creature with flame-colored hair re-
ceive ten proposals of marriage, and
languid beauty wait helplessly for
one that never comes?
1t seems to be the opinion of Mary
Alexander, the author OF this inter
esting discussion In a current maga-
zine article, that men do not like
girls who run after them, and that
the surest way to kill the budding in
terest Of the matrimonial prospect is
to pursue him. The ages are back OF
this opinion. to be sure. Yet l don't
agree with them.
I've seen more men rounded up by
ruthless, remorseless. relentless pur-
suit than I've ever known to be alien
ated by 1t. And nothing Is more un-
trne than that men worship the
naughty and contemptuous beauty.
The race is neither to the beautiful
nor to the brilliant nor to the good.
And II you follow the matrimonial
axiom of the grandmothers and let
out your line when YOU feel a nibble
you will be pretty likely to lose your
fish and perhaps your hook. line and
sinker as we'll.
Men Like the joyful Girl.
Men like the joyful girl. A
crouch" Is a strictly masculine privi-
lege to be guarded as jealously as
they guard the ballot. Men may rail
at fate and question the eternal
verities, but let woman try It and
Immediately they discover there is
something queer about her. 1t is her
business to seem as woman glad,
whether she Is or not.
The geyser girl, the fountain play
Ing In sunshine, dispensing sweetness
and light and gurgling optimism on
the world. is as much mobbed by men
eager to bathe their somber spirits
In her smiles as IL she were a Coney
Island bathouse on Saturday after
noon.
Women don't like her so much.
But that's because the fountain of
light Is not turned on for them. And
they bnow that too much mirth and
frolic in public means hysteria In
private; that the woman who is really
pleasant to live with dwells always in
the temperate one. Only a man could
have written Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt.
tor only man would believe that a
girl who laughed with delight when
you gave her a smile and trembled
with fear at your frown was not fit
ful AMI ill-tempered around the house
unless, of course, she was the village
idiot. And even idiots have their ups
and downs Of feeling.
What do men like in wcmen?" !
asked a-man. and he answered.:
Good Cooks With Slender Ankles.
'They like good cooks-and slen-
der ankles; pep-and patience."
They like eyes," 1 retorted, land
teeth. Few care anything about noses
or the shape of lips. I've known men
to consider women beautiful whose
mouths might have been cut with a
canopener."
"No." the critic of woman admit
ted, II don't believe mon care very
much about features. anyhow. They
like wholesomeness, good temper
amiability, what they call sunshiny
gill"
do they like brains?" asked,
"Prains are, not always fatal" no
answered magnanimously. mo man
begrudges a girl brain-if, we'll, II
she can wear white spats to advan-
ge."-Nixola Greeley Smith in the
New York Evening World.