NO UGLY WOMAN IS HAPPY.
There liked to think, no wfeat' her mirror, told her, that v ariyltwdy tb(jugbt : her ugly. And the brighter the woman is the more it hurts,' ihasp' the genius of Shakespeare; the' ability to'paint, like : .Raphael, "She imaging like the angels, be as lovely as possible in her mind, and yet —she would not want a human being to sayshe waimglj, It would hurt her as nothing else could, and hlm would walk with her head;beut down wVn the thought came to her that the girl who Bold her a yard of ribbon bud, [terhaps, a prettinosa that did not belong to her, There would be more beautiful women in the world if the ugly oneaweie not made so conscious ot it.
Occasionally there is a chic in ugli neas, but be very sure, even to the woman who attains this there is neverending Miffwing. How a man would laugh at this. But beauty in men are not desirable. A man ijrievog in his way when he is little, wheu hi' cannot count mi bin strength, and when heiua coward, but who ever heard a man grieving fo.r pink cheeks, bright eyes or a mouth shaped like Cupid's - bowl A man unfortunate enough to have presumed on the intellectual strength of a woman and to have told her that she was ugly; haß made a mistake which he can ncverreniedy. Tributes to her wit and' Wisdom; .tohear for charms as lasting lotigtf ithow of a pretty face never, remedy'' it, \ neglect her forone hour ahoattriliutesf it to her lack of beauty.; if. he Bpeato'i with the aimplest civility to a pretty woman, her heart will, give a. great throb and she will acouse heraSlf "of follv ir coming where her faults showed more positively' by coppifiaoa With others.
• There is nouse in telling her'; that when others pall upon film aha isiev'er a pleasure; that she ia his rest, his (if. light, and hirfpride; he oan pever tell" h«r that nißii have apoken of her beauty and that go tlietrump card hat been; lost.. Women' think m6re,l really do )|(<lievo.'of beauty thurt man. A man] finds- plea'Hure in.a.'wpiaan; the •therefore, limply herself to him, nad tfi he .loved for that reason; but ihe; alwiiys yearns for tho lovg that ',ls given to the beautiful face. % women have been more truly, mfcre psßsionately loved, and ' every' ibdy knows that a man it doomed, wlija into gives bis heart to an ugly v?otfifth for she haa power untold by which to, hild him ; but the .womanjis/jtever. .quite .satisfied, Well, for tijj ojt us. Mario de Mediol\| iai<] tp Imp been thickrlipped, to,have had'.ainal) eyes and had teetjf, yet raeu -loved her,— Detroit free'tfress,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2504, 20 January 1887, Page 2
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456NO UGLY WOMAN IS HAPPY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2504, 20 January 1887, Page 2
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