Show Explore Your Mind Does Beauty Aid After School Days By Albert Edward Wiggam QUESTION NO 1 Are beautiful women college graduates more likely to get husbands after graduation than the homely ones Answer to Question No 1 1 Yes and this Is precisely I what we would expect unless men in general have lost their senses A biologist had junior and senior college girls rated by several judges for beauty and found in later years that a distinctly distinctly dis dis- higher proportion of those who had been rated high for beauty had got husbands husbands or or husbands had got them whichever whichever whichever which which- ever way you wish to put it This is one of the few studies that give real evidence that men tend to select wives for good looks rather than for money or brains or companionship or other other other oth oth- er factors QUESTION NO 2 Would it increase human happiness hap hap- if Cr c everyone one told the exact truth Answer to Question No 2 2 2 No it would create family disruption and community civil war before tomorrow morning Imagine walking into your office office office of of- fice and saying to the boss Ive been been- pretending you are a decent sort but the truth is isyou isyou you ou are a low-down low ornery blank blank scoundrel and everybody knows it and suppose he should tell what he knows is the truth about you The fact that we do not always tell the truth does not mean we weare weare weare are necessarily lying In fact real lying begins when you falsify falsify falsify fal fal- fal- fal facts either to injure someone someone someone some some- one else or to escape proper condemnation con con- for your acts or gainan gain gam gaman an undeserved personal tage QUESTION NO 3 Do extra bright high school and college students have more common sense than the slower more steady ones Answer to Question No 3 3 3 Ye Yes they have more Psychologists Psychologists Psychologists have devised all sorts or tests of both good judgment and mental and emotIonal steadiness steadiness steadiness stead stead- iness and while there are exceptions exceptions exceptions bright people make higher scores on these tests than the persons of average or low intelli intelli- gence The fact that far more persons of low than of high intelligence intelligence in intelligence in- in go insane shows conclusively conclusively conclusively con con- that on the average good common sense tends to go with good minds |