Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-28

AL mou desire TO please women, ana most
of them succeed, because SO far as men are
concerned, women are easy to please, as the
marriage statistics show. Still, it is hard
to say just what qualities the gentle sex finds
most attractive in the other, for there are
many women of many minds, and each wom-
an has a different mind about men.
OF course it is the conventional thing to
say that what woman admires most
in man is Truth, Honor, and Virtue, but no
woman ever fell in love with a man because
he was good, any, more than a man really
fell in love with a woman because she was
domestic. We both marry for these Qualiti>s
just as we buy homespun instead of silk, be-
cause it will stand tn wear and tear of life,
but it isn't the thing that fires fancy.
1t is significant, though that the thing
that man most values in woman-beauty-
woman cares nothing for in man. The ex-
cessively handsome man seldom attracts
women, and Charlo Bronte knew her bust
ness when she painted Rochester as an ill
favored villain, with a dark scOWl that only
turned into sunshine for one woman. That
type of man always has and always will be
able to make hair mattresses out of the love
locks that girls send him.
Secretly women feel that they possess a
monopoly of beauty, ard they resent mans
infringing on their atent rights. Besides, a
handsome man always expects to have bou-
quets thrown at him, and in the game of
life,it is much more agreeable to be the
catcher than the pitcher.
When Titiania fell in love with the Great
ure with the head of an ass, it was not as
crazy a thing as the poet would have as be-
ieve an ass, it was not crazy a thing as
the poet would have us believe. The ass
was not such donkey as he looked. AS they
sat upon the floWery bank he sang her
charms, instead of posing, so he was bound
to notice and comment on her perfect profile.
1t was an agreeable and fascinating arrange
ment that no woman could resist.
Nv ha1o1 NH 1~
tie for mere regularity of feature in man,
they lay great stress upon his cloths.
Trousers that hitch up in the legs, coat
sleeves that fail to make connection with the
cuffs, decollete collar built for exposing the
Wearer's Adams -4pple, have been the death
blow to many romance, while the love that
can survive three days stubble of beard is
founded on the rock of ages.
1t is true that good coat may cover a
wretch, while shabby one encloses a model
Of all the virtues, but alas, so illogically is
the feminine heart constructed it is more
apt to fall in love with a gent4emenly looking
villain than it is with back number saint.
In conversation, women like men who cul-
tivate a happy medium between the mono
logue artist and tie taciturn oyster. Few
men do this. Most men either take the floor,
and glibly harangue the unfortunate female
upon whom they are calling, about their
business, their golf records, their former
flames, or else they sit as silent as the
HEAVIER to keep the conversational ball roll
ing.
Women are taught from their cradles up
shat their chief end in life is to give the glad
hand to man and act as an applauding chorus
while he talks about the things that interest
him, but here is Nothing that women like as
much as little eciprocity along this line.
They want a chance to say few things about
the things that interest theL.
Women also like { man who knows how to
pay compliments. This doesn't mean hurl-
ing flattery at them with a trowel. Few
women are vain enough to believe the man
who blurts out the bald statement that they
are a second Venus, understudy ITO
Minerva, but there is a delicate way of in
sinuating these things that is like a Whit of
incense, and intoxicates one.
The most subtle compliment or all, how
ever, and one that, strangely enough, very
few men ever think of paying woman is to
affect interest in her view of life and desire
to know her real thoughts. 1t is here that
clergymen make heir winnings. Other men
flatter a woman for her looks, or her viVac-
ity. The parson talks to her about her soul,
and the compliment i so unusual that it goes
to her head
Women like bold men, but they hate the
man who acts as if he was a good thing that
every woman was trying to get. Although
a man loses the sweetheart he is counting
because he lacks the courage to ask for what
he wants, many another is refused because
he looks so certain the girl will jump at him, |