GIRLS MEN LIKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40043, 24 December 1929, Page 1

GIRLS MEN LIKE.

DO YOU RECOGNISE YOUR- ; SELF?

“I tell you/’ said the tall man, as lie took his pipe from his mouth, “the girl that men like, and the girl thejy go on liking, is the girl with charm.” . I groaned. That overworked word, so often used, which is called “it” Nothing, however, will ever make me believe that charm—the kind

that draws people —is anything more, or less, than real sheer warmth of kindliness. All hind people are not specially charming, of course; for it needs a few other attribtes to Wring it up to the hundred per cent, attraction level —a certain amount of intelligence, if not intellect; and a sense of fun — if not wit.

“Can’t stand your hard ; brilliant girl, always ticking someone off,” said the man, “neither can most men. You know 1 the sort who, with a nasty laugh, remark or even look, can make you shrivel up and die. Or,” lie added, “the overclinging sort. It may appeal to a man’s protectiveness to begin with, but give him too much of it, and he feels that lie is being strangled. “And,” ho finished up, “the girl who is always telling men what she thinks* of them —less than the dust, usually-—is a crashing bore!”