The Washington herald., 1921-08-24
BE NATURAL, GIRLS.

Dh NAtOhAL, eIhLS.
Norma Taimadge. than whom
there is no greater authority on the
complete art OF vamping. advises
the girl who wants to be admired
by men to be natural.
Don't try to be something that
you are not" she says. don't pre-
tend. Don't pose. Don't be always
up stage, as we say in the theater.
Be simple. Be natural. Nobody can
always act a part. Sooner or later
they are found out and then they
look like silly cheaters. I know
would hate the man was interested
In to find out that wasn't the kind
OF girl had made him believe
was"
1t is - to be hoped that these
words Of wisdom will be taken to
heart by all the silly little fiappers
who are masses OF camoufage from
their hand painted compilations to
their spool-heeled three sizes too
small shoes, and who go about with
the set expression of a wooden doll
trying to look like the soulful in
gennue. or the wicked siren In the
movies after whom they attempt to
pattern themselves.
They think that they are making
themselves irresistibly fascinating
to men. but they are, in reality,
making the mistake of their lives,
for there Is nothing that men hate
as much as they do affectation.
And it's the thing they are most
afraid Of in women, for men are
simple creatures themselves with
simple. direct impulses. and they
don't know how to deal With sub
tlety and pretence and general slip
perry snakiness in a woman.
There Is no other quality in a
woman that appeals to a man more
than sincerity. Just common, ev-
everyday honesty that makes him
feel that he really knows what she
looks like when she hasn't got her
war paint on, and what she thinks,
and what ideals and standards of
life and conduct she holds by.
There's nothing alluring to him
in the girl who is just a tissue of
make believe that he can see
through. and who makes him won-
der what manner of woman she Is
under the calcimine, and what she
looks like when she FIRST wakes up
Of a morning. and that leaves him
guessing whether she is as big a
fool as she seems to be. or would
be an intelligent human being IL
she would quit acting cute and like
a doll baby.
1t is a common thing for a girl
to try to fnd out what a man likes
in a woman and then try to be II,
to play up to his ideal. Many a
maiden, who wears herself to a
frazzle pretending TO be something
she isn't, wonders why the man
never proposes and why she has had
all her labor for naught The rea-
son is because the man sensed her
insincerity. He saw her a living
lie. and II didn't hit his fancy. After
all. when a man marries he doesn't
want Saphira for a wife. He wants
truthful Jane.
What makes the folly Of girls in
posing so pitiful is that they would
be ten times as attractive II they
would only he natural: for some
bow We can only get away with the
things We were intended to do.
Take the very common case OF
the quiet. demure little girl who
tries to be vivacious because she
thinks men admire girls with lots
OF pep to them. In trying to be gay
and merry she is merely loud and
vulgar. She doesn't laugh. She
screams. She is SO afraid she won't
be chatty that she talks an inces-
SAINT stream. She desires to be
friendly with men. so she's too ia
miliar. She is noisy, tiresome, a
bore from whom men nee, but she
would be charming IL she would be
her own natural gentle self
Then there's the big girl who