The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-08
LONELINESS NO BAR
 TO GIRL GETTING JOB

woman with a dish nose, flattened against her face, must always depend on someone else throughout life.
 ''The mouth tells nearly the whole story
 eff a concern wants to send out on the road a representative who will create good feeling for that organiza- ton l would never recommend a man or woman whose upper lip shows no line of red above the mouth. Such a person is lacking fellow feeling. He is mean and stingy even in his thoughts of other people, A long up- per lip with a bit of red showing is a good feature. Such a man is thought full of others. But since our faces are never out of proportion where there is no room for lelngth of lip the good qualities lacking may be compensated for by thickness of lip the space be- tween the teeth and the outside of the mouth.
 That thickness shows that its oVmer gives the other man a square deal thinks about his neighbors as we'll himself. But above all a man must have confidence to succeed.
 'As for hom be home ly?" Mrs. Barber wants to know. Views of Dr. Quackenbos. Another point of view on the ques- ton of homely candidates for work is that of a distinguished psychologist Dr. John D. Quackenbos who does not believe a homely woman in an office WILL ueCeSSdIlly Tree d puSlueSS IldIl $ wife from the bangs of jealousy. | For economic reasons man might wish to hire a home1y woman who wouldn't want as much salary with | which to bedeck herself pretty and vain one. Otherwise think men l like to have not necessarily pretty women about them but those that do l not offend the eye other things being equal.
 "Hideous1y ugly women sometimes hoy nj orit of ffr-oP Pt fHof will defect a man from the path of righteousness. In my professional ex- prience I know of many such cases where men have turned from their
 wives and families for some such ugly 1 wretch.
 "I knew of case where a patient of my great uncle's, also a physician, | married very ugly woman. My rela- 1 tive predicted that the man would cut 1 hist hroat in despair The unhappy | husband finally did this. He simply l couldn't endure the sight of his wife. 1 Beauty Is Preferred.
 low, many business men do not
 necessarily aspire to have an office | blooming with beauties, but realize
 that beauty does not necessarily mean | badness where ugliness might. The average male, though. would like to | have the woman who works for him
 at least somewhat comedy, nice look
 ing stenagrapher, nurse or office helper. A woman who is so homely Or unkempt that she gets into a mans eye is a disturbing thing to have about really annoying.
 Ut is also quite true that when . plain girl makes less mistakes thar pretty one, the fairer girls lapse:
 are more likely to be overlooked. Un- | conscious favoritisn may sometimes
 cause men to have good looking girl:
 to work for them.
 "But they are safer than the ugly
 woman with strong attraction or de
 sire for attention. She is not to bt
 resisted, and her lovely sister may b'
 entireHy lacking in these dangerou!
 qualities. There. are many love-loose
 men who cannot be trusted with any
 woman, but in my statements I an
 dealing with the average decent mar
 and the unusual womaan, the ugly fe
 male." .-s.- e.---....z= .-- -. The pretty girl, it seems, might b'
 more worried about meeting her beat after work than flirting with men me | in the course of business, whereas he
 ugly counterpart would be reduced t. the pitiful necessity of trying her vile on the nearest available man, sine 1 she realizes her shortcomings ant | cannot lose any precious moments. At least Dr. Quackenbos' dictun l about ugliness ought to be soothing t | women who take seriously the car toonS and jokes about beautiful blon | stnogra pherS.,