Beauty or Brains?
Recently a writer interviewed four literary women, none of them distinguished for their good looks, on a subject of -sital importance. Each woman in her own peculiar line has a national reputation, and could afford to answer truly the question put to her. The 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 gaudier ies, 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 fair of face."
No. 4 said : "Beautiful : Beauty is gold to a woman. A clever woman's fame may not come to her until she is dead, but beauty gets a tribute now ; even laurelled heads turn away from the clever woman to do reverence to one who is beautiful."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 73
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