THE MAGNET—WOMAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9126, 22 April 1908, Page 2

THE MAGNET—WOMAN.

Isn’t it curious how some women pine for love and never get it, and others have such a superfluity of it that they are bored to tears. There are certain women who never go to a dance without some man falling in love with them. When they enter a theatre, all the opera-glasses are directed towards them. They go for a walk quietly dressed, and perfectly ladylike in their behaviour, and the men cross their paths to look at them again and again. Whence comes this curious glamour that seems to radiate from them? It is not particularly beauty, or grace of form, or regularity of feature ; it seems to be more in a strong personal magnetism, of which the owner is often curiously unconscious’ And this power is, if anything, on the increase; we find it now wherever we may turn I met a woman the other day, plain, sallow, to my mind, uninteresting, and untidy dressed, yet a man who knew her told me that she had been engaged five times to his certain knowledge, and that men were beginning to fear her subtle power, and give her a wide berth. “Wherein does her fascination lie?” I asked curiously. “I don’t know; the whole thing is a mystery to me,” he said. “But one of my dearest chums was her latest victim. He met her at a dance. I introduced him to her. He growled as me for having done so, and for having let him in for a dance with such a ‘prehistoric peep,’ as he elegantly described it. I was most apologetic, but assured him men found her most fascinating. He laughed openly, and said they must he very easily pleased. Yet before the end of the evening ho was engaged to her!” o “Really?” I sair\ “How extraordinary !” . “But a more extraordinary thing is this,” he wont on: .“Three weeks afterwards she broke off the engagement for no apparent reason. Instead’of being thankful for his relase, he appears quite heartbroken!” My friend shrugged his shoulders. “The whole thing is a mystery to me,” he said. “I simply cannot understand it. And I just heard that she is engaged again to someone else!” And she was . the dowiest woman in the room. \Vliat is it tbta gives a woman this extraordinary power? There is no doubt that there are two distinct classes of women in the world —the woman who attracts, and the woman w r ho does not. The latter will marry any man who asks her. Almost before he has spoken the word, she falls into Jiis arms. She knows 1)0 is probably

the only chance she will get, and she accepts him at once, and spends the rest of her life returning thanks for his most kind inquiry. _ This is the sort of woman who gives some men the idea that all women spend their lives trying toa ttractthe members of the opposite sex, and ensnare them into matrimony. The education of the latter is not complete till they have suffered at the hands of one of the other class, who behave quite differently. They possess the curious gift of strong personal magnetism, and the curious glamour that brings all men to their feet. They never have to run after a man, because no man can harden his heart sufficiently in their case even to attempt to run away. They are accustomed to adoration all their lives, they cannot understand any women being without it. They take it as their right, and as a complete matter of course ; and their absolute indifference to the incense offered at their shrine maddens their admirers more than any response would do.