Eaton Democrat

Poets Love Plain Women.

Here is a confession of the fact itself by a poet who writes to the Golden Era of San Francisco:

We like homely women. We have always liked them. We do not carry the peculiarity far enough to include the hideous or positively ugly; for since beauty and money are the only capital the world will recognize in women, they are more to be pitied than admired; but we have chivalric, enthusiastic regard for plain women. We never saw one who was not modest, unassuming, and sweet tempered, and seldom come across one who was not virtuous, and had not a good heart. Made aware early in life of their want of beauty by the slighted attentions of their opposite sex, vanity and affectation never take deep root in their hearts; and in the hope of supplying attraction which a capricious nature has denied, they cultivate the graces of the heart instead of the person, and give to the mind those accomplishments which the world so rarely appreciates in women, but which are more lasting, and, in the eyes of men of sense, more highly prized than personal beauty.

See them in the street, at home, or in the church, and they are always the same; and the smile which ever lives upon the face is not forced there to fascinate, but is the spontaneous sunshine reflected from a kind heart--a flower which takes root in the soul and blooms upon the lips, inspiring respect instead of passion, emotions of admiration instead of feelings of sensual regard. Plain women makes good wives, good mothers, cheerful homes and happy husbands, and we never see one but we thank Heaven that it has kindly created women of sense as well as beauty, for it is indeed seldom a female is found possessing both. To homely women we lift our "hat" in respect; the world will extend the same courtesy to beauty.