Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-11
Girls Men Like
Sweet Unaffected Girl Wins
Out in Long Run.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Masculine sincerity seems to be a,
stakel \
Any number of my girls have writ.
ten to me recently and begged me to
reconcile the sweet, modest. home.
loving girl men profess to admire with
the gay and giddy creature on whom
they bestow their attentions. Here is
little letter from an anxious maiden
which fairly duplicates dozens OF
other puzzled girls:
Dear Miss Fairfax: Are men Just
lot of talk or what? Recently an ac-
quairtance of mine said that he didn't
like a. girl to use even powder. That
he had very little use for a girl who
firted and that he, even he--a man
cared little or nothing for chance ac-
quaintances. But when I introduced
him to my friends-sweet, refined
girls--he ALMOST ignored them. And he
has been seen out with girls he would
hardly meet in his own circles and
yet has seemed very devoted to these
questionable looking, made-up crea-
lures. How do you account for liz"
II / could entirely account for this
situation all the peculiarities OF hu-
man nature would be revealed to me.
There are explanations of our own
inconsistencies, but they do not gloss
over the fact that inconsistent we hu-
mans are. Men do like sweet, re-
fined, natural girls-and when they
are thinking about it seriously and
sanely, their good judgment makes
them realize that they not only like
but prefer Sweet Simplicity" and
miss Modesty" to Paint and Pow
der"
So much for sane. human judg-
ment.
We all know the story of the man
who swore off drinking, marched
proudly and bravely by three glitter
ing saloons and then took himself
into the fourth to treat himself for
the strength of character he had just
shown.
Human beings are like that. Men
like modest, refined girls, but they
have a "hankering" for the forbid
den--tke corn-silk cigarettes they
smoked behind the haystack, in their
teens, the circus they sneaked off to
when supposed to be doing the
chores, the runaway trip to the pool
parlors on prayer meeting nights:
The spirit of adventure, the desire
for change, curiosity about the for-
bidden-all these make it possible
logical even--for men to prate Of
their high ideals and then gallivant
off after that which is most complete
ly unrelated ,the ideals of their
preachings.
Men philander about with pretty
painted dolls. Some weaklings marry
them. But real men may go wander
ing off after glitter and tinsel for a
while, and yet insist on purchasing
sterling silver for the home.
When the sweet, fine girl gets
desperate about the good times little
painted ladies are having she daubs
an unbecopling flicker Of rouge on
her cheeks, brushes back her silky
eyelashes with ugly, unbecoming black
paint, coarsens her pink lips into an
ugly red and makes herself into an
imitation of the sort of girls who
seems to be likes by some of her men
friends.
And the net results are a ruined
complexion, a heartache or two and
less popularity than ever. 1t doesn't
pay to compete with experts in a
field where they have all the data
and you know nothing. 1t doesn't
pay to make yourself over into
still cheaper imitation of something
that was cheap in its original form.
Perhaps some day men will be
sufficiently sure of themselves and
sufficiently impressed by the fine
qualities in women so that paint and
tawdriness will always fail to appeal
to them. In the meantime it pays
to remember that man may amuse
himself with bit of tinsel-but that