Show MODERN GIRLS GIRL'S MISTRUST OF MAN 11 I By CYRIL STERN STERNs STERNs' s' s Y Who says sas that attractiveness Is a S matter of personality not of good looks and that it can be cultis cultivated s much more successfully than than beauty Every lover sooner or later assures as- as cures the woman he adores that he does does' does not adore her o only ly for her beauty 0 It Is you I love he declares and not your pretty face Too many women women-In women ln these days so far as I have been able to judge disbelieve that profession Their reply to it t at any rate Is often merely a redoubling of the care they bestow on personal appearance That and nothing thing more Women no doubt know their own business better than any man can canN 0 v N hope to know it It Nevertheless I think that if they tr trusted men more than they do in this matter they would gain and not lose The average man speaks the truth When he says It is you that I Ilove love Jove That indeed is obvious when We r reflect that the woman to wh whom whom- nr he makes this intimate confession Is probably not exceptionally good looking M She is probably Just an ordinary S girl eirl with an av average age ge share of at attractiveness at- at In other ther words her devoted lover loser must laust have met dozens of other girls quite as pretty as she is Yet these other girls failed to toT T wring from him the tremendous admission ad II mission which h he whispered In her ear ear They Tacked some some- quality some Borne supreme gift of fascination which as soon as he ho encountered It made him her slave He He calls that gift You because hIs instinct says sas that it is a spiritual spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual rather than a material quality What is more he expects the gift giftS S to be developed he wants it to grow f Z so so that its power over him will be Increased with the passage of the the years Is that not a challenge which any hy woman might be glad to take up A r Suppose for tor example that instead of spending more time In front of a looking glass and more mone money on clothes a girl who had heard this accepted it at Its face tace value alue Suppose she set about culi cul- cul i th not her appearance but her personality her powers of sympathy th thy of mirth of inspiration There is Isery very ery little doubt I ImagIne Imagine Imag Imag- ine that the result would be a deepening deep- deep t ening not only of his affection for fori i he her but of ot her understanding Of i him f DImar ma I may d be wrong but I think that at at t this ls present moment some such i examination s self examination lf by women is required It seems to m me that f the majority of girls are far fat too deeply Imbued with the belief that ft only rIY prettiness counts where met men t Tare are are concerned i ir A 1 Prettiness in act actual al fact tact counts r r for r very little I I lem remember once hearing an actor pint out that whereas a pretty gi girl i can by her mere prettiness S e earn only twenty five or fifty dok doj- doj 4 k a week on the stage for tor a a. very few fete years an ugly girl possessed of personality O p ma may maj earn the salary of the president until she has co come e et t SI t ti old age That That simple illustration reve reveals III whole truth about physical aa as op ed to mental and spiritual ats at- at t tta tI ness s Beauty Is ia cheap personality rare I 1 and costly Yet personality can be cultivated and developed to a much 1 gr greater ter extent than is possible In Inthe Inthe inthe the case of beauty I That undoubtedly Is the reason why quite plain women often make such great successes of their lives ll and why most happily married married married mar mar- ried men are not married to pretty I wives wIves wIves-In in th the commonplace sense of f the adjective What men really crave for or in woman Is understanding of the kind which demands not only knowledge kno dt of character but sympathy sympathy th thy with weaknesses and the power to Inspire both heart head |