The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-01-14
BEAUTY IS NOT
NEEDED TO WIN
MERE MANS
Madame de StaeT'S Career
Notable Example Of How
One Positively Ugly Woman
May Attract Men.
BY MARGERY REX,
Written for the international News
Service.

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Is beauty nee
essary TO win love?
a man invariably dllates upon the
charming appearance OF the girl of his
heart, while his friends-and hers
how they smile knowingly ut each 9TH
er. as though TO say: Poor deluded
creature"
Thus is affection apt to attribute
beauty to the loved one,
Most women imagine men seek out
beautiful women and. indeed. a casual
inspection Of the young ladies receiv-
ing the most attention at a dance or
a tea would seem to bear out this
theory.
But attention is different from inten-
ton, and real affection includes the
| latter quality.
The famous feminine heart breakers
OF history have in the main been home
~ women. Their power was a thing
apart from mere looks, and most OF
them didn't begin TO create any kind
OF sensation In their W circles till
after they passed 80,
But when people say she's the homely
one OF the family, many n little girl
Is apt to feel So bad about 1t she
would like to find the darkest attic in
all the wide world and go and cry her
eyes out.
The things women do to gain beauty,
How many the hours spent before the
mirror. twisting mouse-colored stringy
hair this way and that, putting rats
!. II to get effects that would dismay
a cinema queen, And the master
strokes OF tiny puff rouge laden, and
the cheerful red smear Of lip stick.
how they seem only to bring out the
strong characterful' nose, so like Aunt
Hattie's-they could see the likeness
even when you were a baby, so it must
be so.
Her ohject-to get a beau, OF course.
But does mere beauty win mar and
the lack Of It keep him away?
In every beauty parlor women submit
to hours Of discomfort, even torture, to
be beautiful" And why?
Women dress and ''primp' either for
men or for their owu aesthetic salts
faction and for no other reasons.
From Chicago comes the story Of
2O-year-old Jeanne Anna de Kay, who
is reported missing, She is the daugh-
ter OF John dc Kay, OF Lucerne, Switz-
erland, writer, economist and million
aire, and she came to America to work
for Miss Jane Adams at Hull House
because she wanted ITO do something
big"
But she is said to have become de-
pressed over her appearance. She was
marked from an attack Of smallpox,
A love affair is limited at. its unsuc-
cessful ending due to her d~isfigure-
ment, the girl il supposed to have be-
liNNth' NllE 10 tuIllbT.
But did this unhappy maiden of 90
ever hear Of Madame dc Stael, We won
der
Anne Louise Germaine Necker, as she
was known In youth, although not at
t%racttVe in person, became one of the
most powerful and admired OF women.
Born in Parts In 1866. she passed her
childhood among the literary salons Of
the French capital, her mental agility
and charm attracting the attention Of
the wits and critics of that pre-revolu-
tionary period.
In 1855 she married Baron de stracl-
Holstein. Swedish minister. Two wears
later she produced her first literary ef-
fort, Letters Sur Jean Jacques Rous-
seau.'
Very masculine in appearance, her
character was strong, self assertive and
somewhat vain. She was a sympathizer
with the revolution, and during. the
reign Of terror attempted to save the
lives OF many prescribed persons. Be
fore the massacres OF 1872 she left
Paris for switzerland and gathered
about her political sympathizers.
The following year she attempted he
same sort OF thing in England and her
c%onquests were much discussed The
next nine years she toyed with poli-
tics In Paris again and succeeded by
means Of her clever epigrams in max.
ing herself disagree8ble to Napoleon,
who ordered her exiled
Germany was her next field Of con-
quest, where her Wit attracted Goethe
and Schiller almost against their wills,
for they thought her lacking in he
ideal feminine qualities. It remained
for her completely to suhdue the Ro-
manticlsts. one of whom Schlegcl, be-
came her companion and counsellor.
Napoleon condemned DE rA1lc-
magne, written by Madame de Stael in
1870. and expelled her from France. The
next year she married a man 20 years
her Junior, Coppet.
After the fall Of the little emperor
she returned to France in failing health.
That year she wrote a book on the
French revolution. In 1917 she died.
Twice married, admired by many men,
a literary and political power, acCredit-
ed with being the founder Of the French
ROmantiCist movement. Madam de
Stael was an ugly women.
Madame de Stael was poCk-marked.