Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-13
WHAT DO WOMEN LIKE
MOST ABOUT THE MEN?
Beatrice Fairfax Thinks Man Most
Admired Is Ono Who Is
"TiIcrc" When Needed.
SAD PLANT OF LONELY MEN
All Women Love Strength and
Iirnness AMI Want Johnny
on.thc-SpOt Husbands, View u
Woman Writer.
by DEATnlCE FAIRFAX.


longing for some magic to max,
yourself II favorltc with the fair scA
as we'll? DO you get on splcnLidly
with the boys and find yourself
blushing and stanmcring whenever
there are women in the vicinity?
Are you one OF the men who write
10 m" daily and something after this
fashion:
WAY is 1t that girls don't pay
any attention to me? never seem to
have anything to say TO them. and 80
when | get out IN society l cit and
cudSel my brains and get more and
more miserable all the time. | can't
make myself interesting and fasci-
mating like some fellows you see
around and when | watch their air
or assurance and the clever way they
candle themselves and The htt they
make, / go more and more mo my
shell and long more and more to
manage to come out OF IT, What
me-
Or perhaps this letter comes bit
nearer your situation:
I've saved quite bit of money
and am all ready to settle down in
coy little home. provided can
ind tho right girl But can't seem
to, get any girl to look at me. They
all 80 for the fellows who dance
well and tell a lot OF Jokes and amusc
the company. some fellows who are
looking for nothing but amusement
Tsshms. 10 take with every E'F' !"
Here l am. looking for dear III,
tie wife. and can't lind a single
girl To pay any attention to me. Can
you figure out why none Of the girls
look 1T me- try to show that !
pm In dead earnest, but everything
] do seems to drive them further
What is i, ,ha, compels feminine
admiration? What are women look
!nS for?
Rather AstonIshing.
It's astonishing In this place. called
mans world. how many masculine
persons are nsk!ng that same ques-
u!at mcn---thc lords OF creation
have only TO pick and choose to get
Just the cir! they want. Blu; the
plenty OF lonely men looking for the
RICH, girl, and falling 10 IND her.
Why should the sensible. worth
while, se:ious-mindci man who
wants 10 give his best find tina, no
one notices him or whether ne IS
Offering his best or his second best
or nothing at all?
The answer is just as likely 10 be
one thing as another. IL generally
lies in ono OF the two extremes, how
ever. INDICATED In the letters I've
ness.
The tender. mo,hering type Of wo-
man often takes pity on shyncss and
at case and unhappy But he prob
ably has his eye on some gay. dane
ing butterfly OF "a girl who doesn't
even know that such an awkward
hohhic- hoy OF "A man exists.
The man who reaches out eagerly
toward every woman who comes
along probably repels them all either
by the force o: his feelings or by the
impression he gives that any girl
VIII do for an unsclcct!ve person
such az himself. Ills one man stun
awkwardHcss. a vol. may have "A,
certain strong and magnificent grace
which attracts even those II terri
knocks everything over In its rough
Earnholings. is either ludIcrous or
jus, plain offensive.
Give charm and the magnetism
which are the gifts OF the fairies no
man need worry abou; his attrar-
uveness. Instead. he's likely TO find
himself defending breach OF prom
!sc suits I! he doesn't watch out
But the average, ordinary plain
citizen" who longs 10 win love and
who's been too busy learning TO
make his way In the world TO learn
much about lovc-making w h at
about him? Is his awkwardncss or
mattcr-o fac;ncss or shyncss going
TO shut him OF forever from the win
ming the thing he would so prize
a woman's d-votionI
The basic Strength.
Not n bit o: II. For in the last
analysis tHcrt IL one tNlUS me "Dm-
en- admire above all else in men. and
finding this they give devotion and
alteration In fun measure. The thing
n normal, healthy, lovcablc girl cam
not resist when once she has seen
the splendid force of 1t in full work
ing order Is strength.
! don't mean what Is known as
cave stun. I'm not quoting the
saying about treat 'em rough" I'm
referring to the deeper. basic com
pelling strength that comes from
character. that results in reliability
and Inability.
The strongest woman longs for
shoulder to lean OH. The weaker wo-
man admire the man who gives the
impression of having the strength
and power and incness which will
make him thc!r-Johnny- on -the-spot
TO one In need.
The man who meets emergencies
calmly, the man who measures occa-
sionS and conuucrS them. the man
who has poisc and stcadincss, steadi-
ness rather than the dcvil-may-
bruSpucncss some think so fascinat-
ing. the man who is sturdy and brave
behind all the Sclf-dcprcciation which
make for shyncss--the man who is
there when you need h!m--he is the