THE MAGNET-WOMAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 101, 18 April 1908, Page 4

THE MAGNET-WOMAN

ISN'T IT Cl'lilOL'S HOW SOME WOMKN ATTRACT! Isn'L il curious how some women pine for love and never gel it. and others have such a superllnity of it that they lire bored to tears. There are certain women who novel' ;jo to a dance without some man falling in love with them. When they enter a theatre, all the opera-glasses are directed towards them. Tliey go J'or a walk fjuiutly dressed, and perfectly ladylike in their 'behaviour, and the men cross their paths to look at them again and again. Whence come* thii curious glamour that seems to radiate from them? It is not particularly beauty, or grace of form, or regularity of feature; it sccni- to be more in a strong personal magnetism, of which thy owner is often curiously unconscious. Aud this power is, if anything, on the increase; we find it now wherever we may turn. 1 met a woman the other day, plain, sallow, to my mind, untinteresting, and I untidiiv dressed, yet a man who knew I her told me that she had been ehgaged five times to his certain knowledge, aud that men were beginning to fear her subtle power, aud give her a wide berth. "Wherein does her fascination lie';" I asked curiously. . ! "I don't know; the whole thing is n mystery to me," lie said. "But one of my dearest chums was her latest victim, lie met her at a dance. 1 introduced him to her. lie growled at me for having done so, and for having let liini in for a dance with such a ' prehistoric peep,' as lie elegantly described , ji. l was most- apologetic, but assured him men found her most fascinating. 1 lie laughed openly, ami said they must ■1 be vcrv ea-ilv pleased. Yd belore the s .•ml of the evening he was engaged to her!"

"lleallyV" 1 said. "How extraonlin arv!"

Hut a more extraordinary thing is this." he went on: "Three weeks afterwards she broke oil' the engagement, for mi apparent reason. Instead of beim: thankful tor liis release, he appears iplite heartbroken!" My friend shrugged his shoulders. "Tlie whole tiling is a I mystery to me," lie said. "I simply cannot understand it. And 1 have jn~t heard that she is engaged again io someone else!" . \,id -lie wa- the .U.wdu-t woman in ,he room! What i* it that gives a woman tlii- extraordinary power.' There is 110 doubt that there are two (li-linct classes of women in the world—the woman who attracts, and the woman who does not. The latter will Marry any man wlio ask- her. Almost before be has spoken the word, she falls into his arms. She knows he is probably the only chance -he will get, and she accepts him at once, and spends the rest of her lite returning thanks for his most kind 111muvv. This is the sort of woman who I .rives some men tile idea that all women | V-rnl their lives trying to attract the I member- 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. 'U>ey |WW« the curious gift of strong personal 1 agu.'tisni, and the curious glanioiu th«. brings all men to their feet. Tliev never have to run aftu a man. because 110 man can harden his lit a t -ullicientlv in their case even to attempt to' run away. They are accustomed to adoration all their lives tin v t ..,,,i,0l understand any women being without it. . , , , Tle'v take it a- their light, and . » a ~„npb-le matter of course: and then absolute iiiditleveiiee to the incense ollcir,i ;it their »\wm maiUU'iis thou a t mirt'i's more Hum u»y wulu