BEAUTY OR BRAINS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 189, 14 September 1909, Page 3

BEAUTY OR BRAINS.

WHICH APPEAL TO MOST MEN? It is an indisputable fact that the Ketl majority of men infinitely prefer auty to bra ns in a woman. Not eve n cleter men, as a rule, care especially for juomen whom tliey consider intellectual. It is the women who are pretty aad bright in the sense of gaiety who en-

snare the hearts of men. i DOES NOT DEMAND BRAINS. The really strong man, of strong body strong will, and strong intellect, objects rather than otherwise to any display of similar strength upon the part of a won.He does not demand brains in hU sweetheart. He only as is that the woman of his choice shall shine urith Reflected glory. One of oar popular novelists has said that "if * woman is unusually go >dlooking, perfectly good-humored, and dainty withal, a man -will graciously forgive her for being clever." Yet for all this there are few mistakes ia life more fatal to happiness than that of the marriage of a clever man with a m<n of brains falls in love with a woman for the sake of her good looks alone, aad, rushing into matrimony, finds hef trivial and small-minded. A man i* to be forgiven for dining imore often his club than at home iwhen 'he himself is wideawake to all the Questions of the day and his wife do-!s Hot know one public man by name from Mother, and only warms up when he Is retailing the sins and shortcomings of the last bmisemaid. SOMEONE TO DO HIM CREDIT. It i-" ne' necessary that a man's wife -••Oiv ' be equal mentally, but the t, ). a ve eye* wherewith to look up • n.nt ; if the husband is a king among a,«n his consort should at leaßt do him M discredit, aad be worthy to stand on the steps of his throne. Wtat happinesß can a man ef broad mews and high ability find with a ; narrow-minded woman utterly incapable of er«o dimly comprehending the value of the subjects which occupy linn? A commonplace woman need not be silly;, many such a «i« has made a Rood wife for a man of genius, and nas taken pride m his achievements.