WHY PRETTY WOMEN ARE UNPOPULAR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 15

WHY PRETTY WOMEN ARE UNPOPULAR.

Why pretty women are unpopular with their own sex is explained by Charlotte O’Oonor Eccles in the Windsor Magazine. Here are a few sentences

“If some pretty women have no friends it is not because they are pretty; it is because 1 that, apart from their beauty, they are not kindly, or lovable, or unselfish ; and women see this where men, under tho glamour of their smiles, do not.”

“ Features and fascinations count for very little in gaining tho love of one’s own sex ; and there is more than ono reason why certain women are not such favourites with their sisters as men who are in love with them expect to find them. Pretty girls, for instance, like handsome men, are not unfroquently stupid. Now can other women, who are not dazzled by their charms, to whom their beauty makes no special appeal, be blamed for perceiving this P”

“ If the Indies’ man be not beloved in the smoking-room,” says the writer in tho Windsor Magazine, “his feminine counterpart can scarcely expect to fare better in the drawing-room. The woman who never opens her lips to another if a male creature bo available ; who reserves all her smiles and charming ways and civil speeches for her masculine admirers who says openly, as underbred women often do, that she detests her own sex and cares only for tho society of men, is more or loss bowitcliingly unreasonable in expecting other women to cherish her. Women, after all, whether pretty or plain, arc but human, and when smitten on ono cheek find it bard to turn tho other,”

'The pretty woman without heart is, moreover, a not unknown personage. Her own sweat will and pleasure are her only law. Accustomod all her life to flattery and excitement, the admiration of men is as the breath of her nostrils. She cannot, and will not, bear a moment s neglect or endure a moment’s dulness. Other people and their happiness seem important only in their relation to her. She develops what Nor da u labels ‘ Egomania.’ To pass the time she does not hesitate to carry off the lover from his sweetheart, the young husband from his girl wife, the elderly paterfamilias from his portly partner,”

At the usual weekly meeting of the Women’s Social and Political League on Monday, new members were elected and nominations received. An extract from the Lyttelton Times on the Referendum question was read by a member. Notices of motion wero given on several matters. Mrs H. TL Mason will read a paper next week on “ The Education Question,” and the lion Mr Carroll has promised to give a lecture at the next open meeting of the League, the second meeting in May.