The Washington herald., 1921-05-04

now TO Please THE MEN.
A young woman asks me to give
her some reliable recipe for pleas
ing the men
There Is none Nobody knows
just what peculiar quality IN
woman attracts men or repulses
them. Even the Bible declares that
the way Of a man with a maid ts
one OF the mysteries that human
wisdom cannot fathom
Generally speaking. a girls nrst
aid to popularity Is beauty. Every
masculine eye Is caught by pretty
face. Every man likes to be seen
out with a peach, who makes other
men rubber and ask the next day
who was the little queen Undouot-
edly, heavens best gift to woman
Il q peaches and cream complexion.
n straight nose. and hair with
natural wave in it: for IL her good
fairy has endowed her with these
gifts, she can get all the balance
herself.
But let not the girl who is not
a living picture despair. Nothing Is
easier to camouhage than peachi-
ness. Handmade complexions are
usually better than the real article
Marcel artists perform on every cor
ner. and there are very few men.
thank God. who have ever learned
TO distinguish between = woman
and her clothes.
The next aid to popularity is to
learn how to dance, how to play
cards. how to play tennis. and gon'
Especially how to dance, for IN
these days. IL a girl wants attention
from men, she must be able TO
tread a measure with them without
stepping on their toes. Heels are
even more important than heads
Just at present, and though q girl
were as beautiful as Venus, and as
clever as AspasiR, she would line
and shimmy. or shake a nimble loot
in the latest dance steps.
As for games. the girl who wish
es to be popular with men must
play well enough to make the game
interesting, but not so well that
she beats her partner. If she can
keep herself in the perpetual ANA
teur class who begs the man she Is
playing with to teach her that
wonderful stroke of his, or explain
that marvellous lead at bridge, she
will never look {or Instructors. or
have to sit on Ae country club
yeranda with the golf widows.
Nothing has more to do with the
hit that women make with men
than the line of conversation they
carry. This should be selected with
great care. and with strict defer
ence to the individual upon whom
Ii is to be bestowed
But there are certain things that
all men abhor. One is sarcasm. Nc
man can abide a woman who says
sharp and bitter things; and in ar
effort to be brilliant and witty,
many a girl cuts her own throat
with her tongue. No man likes a
scandaI-mongeringw woman or a girl
who says little catty things about
other girls. No man likes a woman
who laughs at other people. He Is
afraid he will be the next figure
of fun to her. No man likes q
woman who babbles on and on. II
makes him tired il he is a quiet
man. and il he is a talker he wants
the floor himself.
Clever women are never popular
with men unless they are clever
enough to conceal how clever they
are. Men still prefer feminine brain:
scrambled. and the less a woman
knows, the better they like her
The college graduate who is en-
titled to write NJ. A. after her nam'
H. seldom called Ma unless she hai
sense enough to refrain from max
ing a display of her erudition. anS
discoursing upon highbrow subject!
to men whose reading is most1!
confined TO the stock market re
ports, and the Retail Grocers' Ga
Zette.
Doubtless. in the process Of time
we shall arrive at a place wher'
men will not desire to pose as
oracles before women. and will no
prefer to have a little fluffy ruffle!
roll her eyes at them. and ask foo
questions. to sitting at the feet o
a lady Solomon and gathering vi
the/pesrls OF wisdom that drop from
her lips. But that time has not ar
rived, nor will it be here in tn
next thousand years.
Therefore. the girl who wishes T.
be O riot with men, Goes well I
put the soft pedal on her attain
HlOHls- anu HcNcTs an
circumstances, correct a man
grammar. or his history, or set hin
right about his political statement,
No man loves a woman who know
more than he does.
The more feminine a woman !,
the better men like her. This goe
for both dress and conduct. Yo'
never saw man who didn't lik
ehifons or ribbons. And you neve
saw a man who didn't like gentle
ness and sweetness In a woman.
The reason Is perfectly obviou,
Each sex likes best in the othe
the thing that IL hasn't got. II
man wants to look at mannish at
tire, and listen to somebody swear
and curse, and tell off-colore
stories. he sticks to mems societ,
Het doesn't hunt up a girl who Is
poor understudy of his littl
brother. Therefore the tomboy gil
makes as little hit with men q
the sissy man makes with womer
So the girl is wise who sticks to he
furbeiows and who cries when sh
gets angry, instead Of sayin
Damn
Men like sympathetic womer
They IKE the woman who has tn
eternal mother in her, for me
never grow up. At heart they ar
Always little boys who want to la
their heads DOWN in some feminin
lap and be pettsd, and pitied an