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Show THE MODEL MAN. Novelists whose ambition is to enjoy ample popularity in what are usually called the polite circles should carefully care-fully study the results of a competition in the; Young Woman. Here the readers read-ers have been asked to express within the narrow compass of a postcard their ideas on the perfect man. The competition is called, "What Girls Admire in a Man," and a studious perusal of the feminine mind on this question is both dillusioning and formative. for-mative. In the first place, according to an English exchange, almost all the competitors agreed that good looks are quite the Iast important part in a hero s inventory. It appears, judging from all the views, that the ideal man should pos-iss the following virtues: A quiet, grace, and courteous manner, a light heart and a hearty laugh; he must be "chummy;" he must be "Strong and clean;" worldly wise, but not world-hardened; strictly truthful, and . temperate in all things; he must look at the bright side of life; he must be kind to the aged, little children and dumb animals. That the man possessing these qualifications quali-fications would be the very opposite of the dashing, wicked, golden-haired guardsman of an older fiction, no reader of Ouida will deny. But it appears from one answer at least that there are still some inhuman girls to whom "the smell of a cigar, a fashionable coat and a handsome figure" offer irresistible charms. One young lady appears to be a stickler on two points. Her ideal mu:it pu out his cigarette when his neighbor objects to it, and "sine qua non" he must have no beard. To this standard we can all aspire. |