Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-04

NE of the most pathetic things in the
IL ] world is the case of young girl who
~ has no charm for men.
| She has been born with all the instincts
of her SEX the craving for admiration, the
longing for love and marriage She is just
as anxious for a good time, just as fond Of
dancing as any little fluffy ruffles around
whom men swarm like bees around rose
| But no man ever looks at her a second
time She never has a beau whose atten-
tons have not been bought and paid for by
her mothers dinners, and her fathers thea
! ter tickets and automobile. No man dances
with her unless driven to it by his hostess,
and then he one-steps with the expression of
an Early Christian Martyr on his day to the
stake. Whenever she is one of the crowd
she is miserably conscious that the man who
falls to her lot is cursing his lack of luck in
| drawing her for partner.
In the course of a year 1 get innumerable
letters from these forlorn maidens, who all
recite the same story of their inability to
attract men, and who ask why this is thus,
| and what in what does the charm of the vamp
consist, anyhow?
Alas, nobody knows Only He who Gre
ated Eve out of mans rib knows why it is
that Adam falls for one woman, and is adam
ant before another. No man, himself, can
tell you just what it is in the girl that makes
him get up and follow her to the ends Of
the earth, while he beats it away from her
sister as fast as he can run. Before the
secret of woman's charm for man, science
throws up it's hands, helples to analyze 1t,
till more poWerless to devise a substitute
for it. All that we know is that some women
have it and others have it not And there
you
1t is not matter of beauty, for we all
know homely girls who have had the pick
of the matrimonial chances, and made biz
matches. 1t isn't a question of brains, for we
see silly little flappers with men seven deep
around them. 1t isn't clothes, for we OBJ
serve many Paris frock papering the walls
at balls. 1t is not accomplishments, for we
watch girls who dance like ballerinas and
play tennis like professionals who disport
themselves with no partners save other de-
serted damsels. 1t isn't question of money,
for about the only thing rich and indulgent
father scan't buy for his pampered daughter
is belledom.
So all that one can say to the girl who
seeks a magic formula for conjuring men is
that if you haven't got the come hither look
in your eye, you haven't, and that is all there
is to it. 1t can not be acquired, and the
Wisest thing you can do is to interest your
self in something else than men.
It's folly for the girl whom men don't run
after, to run after them, for woman was not
built for the chase, and men can always out
sprint her. And, anyway, kissing goes by ia
vor, and you can't argue with the high gods
that made some lips desirable, and others
repellant. Such is fate.
This may sound like cold comfort, but it
is comfort, nevertheless, for, after all,
woman achieves the peace that passes all I'M
derstanding when she finally gives up the
attempt to be alluring, and to catch a hus-
band, and gets to the place where men are
only incidental to her happiness instead of
constituting the whole show.
Of course, it takes lot of grit and cour-
age for girl to admit to herself that she
is one of the women who have no attractions
for men, but once we face bitter fact, the