Southern Christian Advocate

POETS LOVE PLAIN WOMEN.

A poet, who writes in the Golden Era of San Francisco, says: 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 woman, they are more to be pitied than admired; but we have a chivalric, enthusiastic regard for plain women. We never saw one who was not modest, unassuming, and sweet-tempered, and seldom came across one who was not virtuous, and who had not a good heart! Made aware early of their want of beauty by the slighted attentions of the opposite sex, vanity and affectation never take root in their hearts; and in the hope of supplying attractions, 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 woman. 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 soil and blooms upon the lips, inspiring respect instead of passion; emotions of admiration instead of feelings of sensual regard. Plain women make 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 therefore lift our hat, in respect; the world will extend the same courtesy to beauty. San Francisco has but few plain women, but all such we intend to make life subscribers to the Golden Era, in view of their worth to society.