A PLEA FOR HOMELY GIRLS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1586, 22 April 1887, Page 3

A PLEA FOR HOMELY GIRLS

There is an old adage which eays, " Beauty is but skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone." It dosen't bear the truth on its face. A homely girl, if she realises she isn't pretty, is generally good, generous; and if she gets married she makes a good wife. The pretty doll of a girl, with the face of a wax figure and sylph-like form, generally becomes the cross ugly old woman. She grows illuatured because her beauty has faded, which was all she prized when young. On the contrary, the homely girl welcomes age because it brings with it the respect due accumulated years. Age is the leveller of distinction, and the pretty, vain, minx who would slight a homely sister of her own age, will pay due respect and reverence to the aged of her own sex. The homely girl never attempts coquetry. In the absence of personal charms of the face and figure, she cultivates her mind to make up the deficiency, and generally succeeds. She is always modest, and seldom pouts if her parents are unable to supply her with the latest style of spring bonnet. She is not addicted to the pernicious habit of having her ears pierced and wearing pendants which cause her auricural organs to assume the dimensions of a sleuth hound. When she gets married she never falls in love with a tinhorn gambler and becomes defaulter to her wedding obligations. She makes a good mother and feels proud to have her friends say her baby is pretty, and on such occasions she is certain to declare that it is the very image of its father. It is seldom that a homely girl marries a scrub. That class of the gems homo can't appreciate homely worth. Thoy search for beauty, no matter if it be found in the possession of one possessing neither intellect nor education. With such men beauty is an article of merchandise. Let the homely girl take courage. Men of sense and honour admire her for her good qualities of mind and heart. Don't be discouraged if you are left to sit like a wall flower at a dance while girls whom the light-minded gentry deem pretty glide through waltz and quadrille, and flirt past you in apparent disdain. It will all come out right at last. The true gentleman will take note of such things, and ten chances to one but he will sit down and entertain you with sensible conversation. Here's to the homely girls one and all. Let every young man who respects himself and wishes to understand the true worth of womanhood becourteous and respectful to them.