Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 152, 14 January 1902, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

—_o —-- The reason why woirsn attract men ia a subi'eot that occupies ft • the charm chattj article in -the - OF " Cosmopolitan." Truth WOMANKIND, to t«Hi it leaves ua exaclty where we were before, for no on* man may hope to fully explain a pabjeot of such worldwide interest, r.nd oua which changes its roasons with the age. However, Mr Pyke limits .his ground at onef e 1 stroke by frankly admitting that with probably 86" per cent of all the men ■ one meets ,lhe attraction which women have ia tbiir sight is a box attraction pure and simple. This is why the choice which the average man maktß in selecting for himself a wife h a >'.hoi?e dependent almost wholly upon '■he accident" of proximity. This 80 per cent, with their ,l wholly element'nrv tastes," ha not discuss. Confiniug himself to the remaining one fifth, ho remarks that most men oonfess to an admiratiou for " a beautiful woman." This does not carry us much farther, for probably no two men can give exactly siuuiLi* definitions of what they mean by personal beauty. Mr Pyke, however, has come to the conclusion that "what most appeals to the majority of men is a winsome face, a face that is very human in its suggestions—mobile, expressive, sympathetic, and made piquant by just the faintest bit-of archness. There is one thing, how-" ever, which appeals to every man of taste and imagination, and that is grace. Awkwardness in a woman is very hard to overlook. Perhaps grace is admired the more by men •because it is the last thing which they ever acquire themselves. And more essential even than grace is daintiness and exquisite regard for all the niceties of daily life." The quality of ■ " responsiveness" is what, in Mr Pyko's opinion, first attracts the more serious attention of a man ; but "finer than any other single trait in woman, because it is rarer, is perfect frankness, not in word alone, but in thought and act— the courage of conviction, the splendour of sincerity."