Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — The Plain Woman Gets There. [ARTICLE]

The Plain Woman Gets There.

A discussion is going on in one of the English papers beloved of young men, as to whether ugly women are less happy than their more fortunate sisters. One would like to hear the views of the ugly women themselves, who, no doubt, would be perfectly willing to forego the virtues that ai e unanimously ascribed to them fdr the rosy cheeks and golden hair of nature’s favored ones; but, according to the young male prigs who express their sentiments, the plain, good girls, with their sunny tempers, efforts to please, and homely qualities, are actually preferred to haughty, exacting, capricious beauties. This is rather an unromantic view for youth to take, and one, perhaps, that soma of us would prefer in the mouth of sober middle age, from which romance and susceptibility to beauty have very rightly fled. However, the truth seem's to be that if a woman of only moderate comeliness does not get the “fun” and fli tatlon and the sort of not very desirable homage that fall to the lot of the pretty creature, she is quite as lively to win and keep affection of a deeper and more enduring kind. One can imagine, too, that the plainest woman is pleasing in the eyes of her ■lover; and which lof us has not met women with a reputation for beauty for which we could not account? This is especially notable in portraits of bygone belles, many of whom appear to our modern eyes to have little claim to beauty so far as contour and feature® are concerned.