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I don't like
PRETTY GIRLS
Confession from a man
who has been bitten twice by them
LEASE allow me, as a humble young bachelor who has never before dashed into print," to pour out my heart.
I believe I must be as near to that mythical character the Man in the Street as any reader. I am a simple person, neither oxcessively ugly nor strikingly handsome. 1am the sort of maan nobody notices without looking carefully.
Hmply taxicabs, or rickshas, for instance, do not slacken paco when the drivers see me walking in tho rain: on the other hand, no one would think of offering me thirty cents to get a cup of
by
men (she had no women friends).
noticeable
You know what it feels like when you, go to the pictures expecting to acc film you've been looking forward to for some time and then when you get there you find that particular film isn't coming on l next week.
Frustrated is a mild way of pul- ting it. But you feel, having lugged yourself out to the cinema, that you had better see the thing that's.on anyway. And you alt through it in a highly critical mood,
Beautiful but Dumb
WELL, I was like that with Flora. I sat through long meals with her in a critical mood.
she never unbent. She never was
human.
The only frailties I noticed in her were that she took twenty minutes
to put on her hat, and looked at her face in her pocket mirror far The at me. more than she looked hours I have sat in restaurants, malc- int conversation for her.
Small talic ling never been my forte. But I felt all the time that
But she never changed. In the end it was borne in upon me that
I remember the great day when perhaps the next time Florn would and become the she proposed that we should go down suddenly unbend to Maidenhead in my latest sports glorious, gay, kind person into which model. I was outside her house on I had Idealised her. There's one point I have not made the tiet ono balmy, summer after- clear in all this obscurity which sur- noon.
So was Laura. "We must hurry Flora's brain was about the size of and that that I have roundo me
said. "I've arranged a pennut, and her heart was smaller Just enough money to marry on and up," she am therefore considered a fairly meet Tony and Harry and a whole still. She knew nothing except that eligible young man by mothers who crowd of them down at (she was pretty.
Oh and La me Maidenhead dance place). are no often for pleasanter than are their daughters.
It got me Badly
Now comes
trouble. the
will,
once
And the intimate little meals we expensive-more than I hud you don't mind stuffing Philip into were
darling, do you? the back, John
Flora hardly ever used could afford. Anywhere
do."
a bus or team. It was beneath her dignity. That was a typical incident. I remeinber wo were play-
A snobbish mother and conven- Since eighteen years of Ing "truths' silly game, whereby tional surroundings, with money as ago I have been in love twice (I am ench player guarantees to give the the only standard of values, had bad
their effect on Flora. truthful answer to any question. now twenty-six).
The one thing that seemed to me asked Laura, "What do you like best
We all hung on her definite about her was that she was in the world?”
"Being the only woman in the on the make,
There came a time when a young orty," was her reply.
was two years ago. Some inan whose father was a rich City all the heart searchings,
to her. The Indigestion, wailing about in over-lit how after that I saw less of Laura, knight paid attention entertainment centres, paying out The truth was she loved everybody glamour was too much for Flore, and more than I can afford, have taught a little, but nobody a lot. It was she left me. me that pretty girls are not worth hopeless to see her except with "the the trouble of running after. I'll go whole crowd."
On occasion it has got me so badly that I have been put completely off my food-not able to digest anything for three days.
And
"That
further and say I don't like pretty Laura is now twenty-six, and still Not really their Fault
Cirls.
unmarried, t gay and still lovely.
I will call my two loves Laura and But she is less often the only woman
Flora. They were both pretty ris. in the party.
She looked Lovely I met the next One
AURA was the life and
Rout
of the tennis club. She had a figure that would hurve looked lovely even in a diving suit; in tennis kit she was superb. Look- ing back on things, Laura was the deepeat love of my life.
She was gay company She could talk to me about cars (my passion in life);
to some other fellow about poetry; she could play the Howallan guitar; she could play tennis; she could make us laugh.
It took me no time to join her
sure.
THERE. dre plenty of good women in the world, I feel
But if they are pretty and know it. they've got to have very strong characters to overcome that hand-
FLORA cured me of Laut. cap. I think it is largely the papers I saw her first at the fault that pretty girls are often so tennis club dance. I had seen her at dumb-they make too much fust the tennis club, but somehow Laura about prettiness in the newspapers. had always eclipsed her then,
her
One
day, I expect I shall and a No one seemed to be lacing to
who Is preity without being at the dance, and I remember self-conscious about it. thinking how odd it was that some Some one who can love me with- beautiful should be un out making me jealous of every other attended.
man, as Laura would have done. swooning with Who can talk seriously withdut being away delight because Flora had hinted on the make," like Flora. Who will that she wouldn't mind if she saw never be a bore.
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I came
me again. She did seo me again I seem to have ended with rather sat, but it was weeks before I even and again and again. For two a sermon-like sob. Please forgive found myself talking to her alone. years, in fact.
me:
And alone Laura was as good com- Yet during all those two years But perhaps this will warn pretty pany ng when she was surrounded 1 never get to know Flora better girls and encourage ugly ones.
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Pictures may be improved during enlarging by controlling tones with a "shadow brush,"
WHEN na advanced amateur or professional photographer shown some of his beautiful malon pictures to a group of interested but uninitiated people, some of them are sure to ask questions such as
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Ton comes an explanation of a method whereby a very ordinary picture, as recorded on the nega tive, may aften be transformed into I work of art in the process of mak ing an enlarged print of it. "Dodg Jn." in the alang of photography, means interrupting some of the Hight passing through the negallys to the sensitized paper during the printing.cf the picture. "Dodging"
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