UGLY LITTLE WOMEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 365, 16 January 1880, Page 2

UGLY LITTLE WOMEN.

There is often more charm in the vitality. energy, unselfishness and gaiety of an ugly little women than in n half dozen tall, queenly beauties, who have been on the watch all the time t( pose well and make their points effe stive. There have been men in the world who thought it ii fine thing to say thai tl an ugly. woman has no place in the ecc nouiy of nature." But if the records cf the world were intelligibly written, it' vould be found that ugly.. women have been the heroines, the help- meets of heroes. It is the function.of beauty to get men into trouble, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, and hut dreds of others, where'er they came, brought calamity; Biauty and anguish have walked hand in hand the downward slope to death; and whenever the poet d'earns of-fair women he is sure to dream of something doleful. If he were to have a dream ! of-ugly - little women it would be full of brightness, loyalty, devotion, sincerity,, fortitude,and all those otheijlovable female dualities that make Himer happy, j Tall Beauty is epic; Little Ugly is lyrid,homelike. Just think of what a deep-leated compliment is involved in calling irregularity of feature homeliness. It means that she is not for the ballroom, but for the home, for the friendships that cluster around the hearth, for the merry little sociable, the picnic or off hand gane,or. for the darkened sickroom when she brings rest and comfort. For the ilainne3s of feature and insignificance o' per.: son of homely -women there is often ound an earnestness, a whole-souled swentness aud sympathetic.expression that win' love far quicker than mere beauty. The world could far more easily afford tc lose its supplies of beauty than to give ip its precious stores of ugly little women. The be.iutie _ waif v to be loved; the (thers delight in loving. ,