HOW TO BE PERFECTLY ADORABLE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 238, 13 November 1909, Page 6

HOW TO BE PERFECTLY ADORABLE

HOW TO DEAL WITH MAN'S CONCEIT. -_ Women have always r occn hailed as the sex whose vanity reigns supreme, whose love of admiration and Up tic y is inborn and some have stated that "praise a woman's beauty, whetner she has any or not, and you will be assured her goodwill for the rest of your life." Little or nothing, however, has been said of man's conceit. Indeed, it is generally understood that he is a levelheaded, stolid creature, entirely devoid of auuuiug approaching a good opinion of his personal attractions. lie may have a magnificent idea of his superior importance in the world he may even think he is "the" one—that is to say, women and all other animate things are hi- natural inferiors. But no one Ink- had the courage to admit or believe that a man takes other than a proper pride in his manly looks.

l'Klil AND SOBER FIGURES. Perhaps why it is not generally, known that men are conceited is due to the fact that women make no secret of their vanity and self-love, consequently they have been given the monopoly of it. Now, the feminine sex .would cut. very prim and sober figure in the world if they took the trouble to hide their "delightful" defect. (A defect, it should be noticed, 'which when shaved by th? sexes, is delightful in a woman and in tolerable in a man!) . As they do not, and frankly admit it, men have naturally been ready to imagine that vanity and conceit only apply to things feminine. .What a fallacy! Could anything be further from the truth? For there is nothing in the world so obvious, so innocent, so utterly naive and childish as man's conceit.

Watch a man who is cultivating a. moustache and the lender solicitude with which he tends it. He examines it every other minute in any available glass to see if it has grown, and the care with which ho ceaselessly strokesone might almost say nurses—it is almost touching in its intensity.

Did a woman ever lake greater pains over the selection of a gown that a man does with a few ties? And what else but conceit permits a man to go about in broad daylight with those unearthly colored socks, those gorgeous purples, glowing crimsons, and ever popular greens? But if one is inclined to doubt these observations just tell a ;nan, in a gentle, almost worshipping way that you think him good-looking, and watch the pleased smile with which he will greet your announcement.

A (JL'ESI'iOS OP COST. Of course, lie will lead the conversation to icbs interesting matters, our wait lung enough and lie will enquire with painfully studied carelessness if you think he would look belter if Inwore "Uiru-dowu'' collars.

If you notice lie hn.s a beauty spot on his face and tell him su, he will look as if he duulits your veracity and ask yu:i

•■Where;'at the same tune he win migcr the spot in question almost caressingly. An if he hadn't studied its cxiul whereabouts and wondered time after time whether it would have suited his style of beauty better had it been on the left side.

And people have the coinage to say that linn are not conceited!

A man admires a woman who is con siderale cnongTi to allow iiim to uuk down to her, but he adores the one who sweetly and lacUally pumpers his conceit, and makes constant ilatlering references to his nninliue-s. Jim novel, never, should she permit a ray of sailsfaction u> cross her face when he mentions the conceit of women!

And it should be remembered that what makes a man's conceit such an innocent and touching atlair, is that he '.. generally quite una.vare of ill