WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE ?
Recently a writer for an American paper interviewed four literary women, none of them distinguished for their good looks, on a subject of vital importance. Each woman in her own peculiar line has a national reputation, and could afford to answer truly the question put to her. Ihe question was this : "Which would you rather be— clever or beautiful?"
No. 1 said : "Beautiful — because by the mere lifting of the eyes a beautiful woman can order all the world to her feet."
No. 2 said : "Beautiful — because beauty's mantle is larger than charity's. It covers social gaucheries. ignorance, and any amount of stupidity." No. 3 said: "Beautiful — because fame, fortune, adulation, lovely gifts, social prominence, all come to the woman who is fail 1 of face."
Xo. 4 said : "Beautiful — beauty is gold to a woman. A ciever woman's fame may not come to her until she is dead, but beauty gets its tribute now ; even laurelled heads turn away from the clever woman to do reverence to the one who is beautiful."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 71
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178WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE ? Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 71
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