Show MEN AS VAIN AS WOMEN Watch Them as They Pass n 3Iirror and See for Yourself The vanity of woman is an acknowledged ac-knowledged fact that ha been the subject sub-ject of much ridicule on the part of the sterner sex who appear to forget when they are throwing stones of this chayracter that they themselves are not altogether without flaws In fact though little is said about I a man Is quite as vain a a woman and shows it In as open a manner and according to the Kansas City Times this can be proved if people but stop to watch the manoeuver of some well I dressed masculine as he walks down the street or takes his ride abroad either in cars or on boats The mirror in a shop window is as irresistibly at tractive to a man a to a woman and i is not always the youngest and best dressed men either that seem to ex tract considerable enjoyment in regarding re-garding their own reflection Shabbily dressed old men will loiter before a mirror and examine their image with as much anxiety as does the young beau starting out to his first dance Wherever a mirror is to be seen there will be if you will but notice i and though it may sound like a sweeping assertion there are far more pocket mirrors carried by men than by women and these are brought into play whenever a man has a few minutes time to spare These statements are not made to run down the character of the men but to show that vanity lives alike in both sexes Perhaps after all i is I not vanity that prompts men and women to scan their images so care fully whenever the opportunity Is cre of fered for so doing but it may be the innate desire to detect faults if there are any and rectify them a speedily when they are discovered They are frequently actions that are attributed to vanity but which are only the outcome out-come of a desire to look as well a wel as possible in what one wears and cer tainly this spirit is to be commended instead of cried down It is our duty to look as well as we can and u f nfto r 4 U1LC1 a study of our own reflection we can make an improvement on what we see there can be nothing hurtful in such a proceeding Therefore when the preacher declares that all is vanity it might perhaps be translated into meaning only an overcareful attention to the details of ones dress and personal per-sonal adornment without and undue selflove as a natural adjunct |