ABSTRACT
An immense number of ill-tempered ugly women are ill-tempered because they are ugly. To be beautiful implies to be seen, and it follows that one of women’s first duties is to be visible. The importance of Visibility is peculiarly clear in a land which boasts nearly 6,000 more women than men. Alas, when people complain of men not marrying, they forget how little women offer in exchange for all they get by marriage. Blue-stocking or not, every woman ought to make the best of herself inside and out. To be healthy, handsome, and cheerful, is no disadvantage even in a learned professor. It is one of the most potent objections to the cause of female education, that clever women go in for huge boots and Gampian umbrellas, setting at nought many graces essentially womanly and indispensable in woman: and the fact, which really has some truth in it, positively damages the cause.
