DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 5

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE PRIZE BEAUTY

(Copyright , '‘1027.) QNE prize beauty is suing her husband for divorce. It seems that having a husband interfered with her getting the prize. This is about the sort of crop we can expect from a prize-beauty move, ment. Why a prize beauty, anyhow? If you are beautiful you are beautiful and that is no fault of yours. God gave you the charm and why should you boast of it as something in which you had a part yourself? Much of the good work in this world is done by the homely girls. Homely girls make the best wives. Many a man in selecting a mate steers shy of a beauty because he does not care to have so much competition. Why not have a competition over something that amounts to something? Over the rapidest typist, the most successful business woman, the best housekeeper, the woman who has the most healthy children,or something like that? A prize might also be given, suggests one correspondent, to the most afflicted person and experts be called on to testify about crippled legs or the lack of hands or blindness or deafness. This at least would call attention to a person’s needs and probably bring relief. The prize beauty business seems to be after all just an appeal to vanity. As a rule, the prize beauties do not score very heavily in this world’s achievements. A beautiful face or figure is not even the greatest allurement to a man, if that is what one had in mind. Experts say that neither Cleopatra, Anastasia nor Ninon de l’Enclos, who were some charmers, were particularly endowed with feminine pulchritude. The fact is that a beautiful spirit can enliven and make to shine a homely face. Besides this a beautiful spirit is easier to live with in the long run than a beautiful face which conceals an ugly spirit.