A MAN'S LOOKS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 8

A MAN'S LOOKS.

No woman could look at Earl Beatty and despise him; few could look at him without admiring him. He would not adorn the Russian ballet or a picture of the pre-Raphaelite school. You could criticise his features and their proportions. But what woman thinks about trifles like that? See what his face suggests—oceans, wide spaces, ships, battle, inI vincible strength, all of which things i are entirely unfeminine, and that i leads us back to wise Darwin, who J said: —"The sexes like best in each other what is most different from themselves." "It all depends on the sort of looks a man possesses, and the sort of girl who regards them," writes Miss Vjolet /Qu)frk in the Royal Magazine. "Then why do women adore the Prince of Wales, who is short, slight, and not aggressively masculine? Merely because to them he is still Boy. They love him with the paternal part of their nature. Also his face is good, and that makes an added appeal, for the maternal, too, is so good. They understand the wdstfulness which, comes |from. Ms intelligence, he realises to the full his tremendous responsibilities. A woman wants a man to be masculine in essence, but she wants him as well to possess just a streak of the feminine in his nature. It must be big enough to enable him to understand her weakness, but not big enough to override his virility. Because she likes a man to look what she thinks he ought to be, she" passes over the slender being whose appearance expresses his effeminacy, and she shrinks from the hard, bull-necked, loud-voiced male whose appearance expresses his brutality; but she gazes long at the man whose looks are all masculine, but whose eyes and mouth reveal that little streak of understanding of the feminine which she needs. A woman cannot separate a man's looks from the man himself. This admiration of manly instincts colours all a woman's likes and dislikes with regard to man."