WHY BEAUTIFUL WIVES ARE NEGLECTED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 3

WHY BEAUTIFUL WIVES ARE NEGLECTED.

(English _\la,ja>!ne.) Why is it that many husbands tire of beautiful wives so soon alter marriage? It is, perhaps, possible that the beautiful woman enslaves so easily that she neglects to cultivate the qualities which make of passion a lasting sentiment. Marriage is not perpetual sunshine any more than life may be. And when beauty is taken out of- the sunlight of courtship, when the ivory of her skin,, the vermilion of her lips, the blue of her eyes, the gold of her hair are not sufficient and perpetual food for adoration, what is in the background for the shades and the shadows? What is in reserve for the endless weeks and months when she is to sit on the other i side of hie hearthstone? What for the days upon days of purely commonplace existence when the strain of perpetual admiration- would be weari-ome indeed ? Yet wheu her slave marries her it is ten to one that she will expect to be fed upon the food with which he wcoed her. In other words,, if he doesn't look at her admiringly she will feel inclined to pout. She will expect him to find her beautiful, and, what is more, she will expect him to say so. But beauty is not enough — in fact, it counts for nothing against the qualities of heart and mind which the ugly woman cultivates naturally. Despairing of being loved for her outward attractions, those that have been called by ths learned skin deep, she cultivates those that will make of ber one of the most enduring of comrades, ths kind any man. did he but have the sense to know it, would rejoice to have on the opposite side of his fireplace. If an ugly woman attracts a man in spite oilier ugliness, she has attracted him deeply for some inherent quality of mind or heart- that h- discovers beneath the outward covering that the eye of the ordinary p3<sser-by does not penetrate. She should be triumphant. She has imperfections and she has succeeded in spite of them. Tn her case the 'first step is the most difficult. Her difficulty is in attracting admiration. The greater her uglin.es the greater her triumph.