STUPIDITY AS AN ASSET.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 8

STUPIDITY AS AN ASSET.

ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE BRAINLESS WOMAN. "Common observation shows that while the beauty captures her hundreds, the saint her tens, and the clever woman sometimes one, the stupid woman slays her thousands,” says "Dorothy Dix” in an American contemporary.

"It is the masculine peculiarity of taste that makes the study of Dickens’s Dora Copperfield of singular interest, for Dora represents the brainless doll-woman that attract men most, and this attraction is one of the great human problems that has never been fully explained. "There is no other possession on earth from which so much sordid comfort is to be derived as an admirer on the hearth-stone. Far more soothing is the indiscriminate flattery of a fool than the judicious criticism qf the wise, and so it is not surprising that the woman who tells a man how clever and brave and strong he is should be preferred to the one who recognises him just for a plain, ordinary human being, with an intellect that isn’t likely to set the river on fire.

“It is also easy to understand why the very ignorance of the Doras of life attract men. In the first place it gives the men an opportunity to pose as oracles, and in the second place it offers the charm of contrast. A man wants somebody to whom his worst is as his best, and who will never find qut when he is dull and makes an idiot of himself, for the charm of stupidity is its inability to judge.”