FINDING HER SETTING.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 165, 30 December 1926, Page 5

FINDING HER SETTING.

Countless theories have been advanccd 1o explain why some women are more attractive to men than others. But it has always seemed to me that the a:traction depends far more on environment than on type. This belief was strengthened while 1 was serving tea at a charity garden party. Another girl volun.eer was such a success that our corner 01 the marquee was besieged with admirers. “You seem to be a perfect Helen of Troy” I said, laughingly. “I 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 comci attended by no appreciative male am. obviously not enjoying herself. i learnt that she was the daughter of an artist of a very modern school r and had never been considered particularly brilliant in her father’s circ.e of intelligent” friends. ; Removed from 'liis environment anc placed in one where cheery good-fel-lowship, a sympathe ic manner, ami a spontaneous laugh were assets she hac come into her own. Conversely, I remember r. bunt ball where a Chelsea gW. conspicuous both for beautv anti for intellect, spent, the evening as an astonished and resentful wallflower, her attractions paling to in-s'-trnificanee 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, were excellent organisers at chart y a - fairs adored the country, and -wore generally considered cxto-mely eligible. The sixth, pale and delicate, and lacking her sisters’ abounding vitality, moped in the country un'il she went. 1o visit some relatives in Rome. T. e tc she was much admired for her elegance and air of distinction, married art Italian count, and is now a popular social figure in Rome. And so, to sum it all up. it seems to me that almost any woman can be attractive provided she is clover enough to find her true milieu. She who is not always a success may derive consolation from' the thought that Cleopatra would have been a failure on a lawn tennis court, and the Venus de Milo, judged by modern ideas, rather on the heavy side.—Hall Fryer, in the “Daily Mail.”