FINDING HER SETTING

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1926, Page 18

FINDING HER SETTING

Countless theories have been advanced to explain why some women are more attractive to men than others. But it has always seemed to me that the attraction depends far more on environment than on type.

This belief was strengthened while I was serving tea at a charity garden patty. Another girl volunteer was such a success that our corner of the marquee was besieged with admirers. “You seem to be a perfect Helen of Troy,” I said, laughingly. “1 can’t understand it at all, ’ she replied. “This has' never happened to me before.” A few days ago I met the same girl at a very “high brow” Chelsea party. Subdued and silent, she sat in a corner attended by no appreciative malo and obviously not enjoying herself. I learnt that she was the daughter of an artist of a. very modern school, and had never been considered particularly brilliant in her father’s circle of "intelligent’ friends. . . /Removed from this environment and placed in one where cheery good-fellow-ship, a sympathetic manner, and a spontaneous laugh were assets site had come into her own.

Conversely, I remember a hunt ball where a Chelsea girl, conspicuous both for beauty and for intellect, spent the evening as on astonished and resentful wallflower, her attractions paling to insignificance before those of the redcheeked, hearty-mannered bevy of "sporting” girls around her. I knew also a vicar who had six daughters. Five played games well, wore excellent organisers at charity affairs adored the country, and were generally considered extremely eligible. The sixth, pale and delicate, and lacking her sisters’ abounding vitality, moped in the country until she went to visit some relatives in Home. There she was much admired for her elegance end air of distinction, married an Italian count, and is now a popular social figure in Pome. ~ And so. to sum it all up. it seems to me that almost anv woman can be attractive provided she is clever enough to find her true milieu. She who. is not always a success mav derive consolation from the thought that Cleopatra would have been a failure on a lawn tennis court, and the Venus de Milo judged bv modern ideas, rather on the heavy side.—Hall Fryer, in the "Daily Mail.”