Ya Gotta Know This About That: Average Woman Would Rather Have Beauty

Do women tend to lean towards beauty not brains?

Being the woman that I am, I think I have a pretty good view on woman's wants and desires. Not that I have the same outlook and desires, but women tend to know women pretty well.

Through my management years in the workplace, I saw a lot of women go through the workforce. Many had beauty, few had a big pile of working brains. And, they didn't seem to care that brains wasn't on the list of wants. Some just seemed to exist for the sole purpose of having beauty to attract the other sex (never had one who wanted to attract the same sex).

When they got there in the morning, they were still primping. At break time, back to the restroom to primp some more. At lunch, they daintily sat with their small salad and their can of diet soda. Not me, I sat with my huge sandwich, chips, can of high calorie soda and my dessert too!!! Food was the most important to me, not beauty. But now, and about 50 pounds later and about two hundred face wrinkles, maybe I should have been thinking of that small salad and a diet soda, and the ongoing primping in the potty room.

Of course I also sent a several home for primping on company time and not working. I even found a somewhat brainless beauty sleeping instead of using her brains...that was the second time she wasn't using what brains she had, so she got to sleep late in the mornings at home ..... permanently. I guess she had lots of time to primp and sleep after that.

Another show of beauty rather than brains was the person who came into my office and told me to leave my office so she could make a personal call from my office. WHAT???? She meant it too.......unfortunately for her, I was the one who used my phone.....and this brainless beauty also went home...permanently. Now do you see why I think there are a quite a few women who love the beauty and don't really care to increase their brain power.

Of course maybe I shouldn't lay all the blame on beauties because through the years I had some really ugly creatures who worked in my areas. They couldn't primp because there was nothing that could be done to rectify that, and in the brain department, a three year old could accomplish more in the work place that these ugly brainless types. To be ugly and brainless must really be hard to take.....but they do exist. As I see it, there isn't much chance of any recovery for these type of people.

So if you are reading this and you fit into one of these categories of either a brainless beauty or a brainless ugly, heaven help you. I bet you can't wait for summer, hoping that your suntan will somehow cover up your flaws. Good Luck!

Some Old Residents of The Greenview Area

From the History of Menard and Mason Counties 1879

J. B. COPPER, farmer and stock-raiser; P. 0. Sweetwater was born in Portage
Co., Ohio, Dec. 14, 1809; third son and fifth child of Michael and Mary (Glasgow)
Copper, who were the parents of nine children; the father was a native of Kent Co.,
and the mother of Westmoreland Co., Penn.; they were married in 1797; in 1838,
the parents came to Illinois and settled on Rock River in which is now known as Car-
rull Co.; in the summer of 1851, the father died; this was the same year our subject
came to Illinois ; he had passed his youth and early manhood in Licking Co., Ohio,
assisting his father on the farm. He was married to Miss Eliza Pence, a native of Lick-
ing Co., in 1837; from this union there were three children William, David and
George; Mrs. Copper died in the fall of 1853; Mr. Copper was married March 27,
1854, to Miss Emily Goff; the Goffs were early settlers of this county and date their
history back to its first settlement; from this union there are twelve children Harvey
E., Charles B., John E., Laura J., Eliza E., Sarah M., Robert F., Thomas H., Louis
C., Ida F., Lorena and Lydia N. Mr. Copper owns 316 acres of land, 286 of which
are well improved and which he has made by his own exertion-*. He and his wife have a nice home, pleasant family and are among Menard County's most respected citizens.

GEORGE T. DEAL, dealer in live stock, Sweetwater; was born in Menard Co.,
111., Jan. 14, 1849; is a son of J. H. and Jane (Eldridge) Deal, whose sketch appears
in this work; George T. attended school until about 20 years of age, at which time he
entered the store of his father, where he remained five years; during this time, he had
entire charge of the business; at the expiration of this time, the father sold out, and
our subject then assisted in the mill, owned by his father and James Hughes, in Sweet-
water; in July, of 1870, he went to Chicago, and was, for some six months, in the
employ of Wood Bros., livestock commission merchants; since that, he has been
engaged in buying and shipping hogs and cattle. He was united in marriage with
Mary J. Pickrell, Dec. 2, 1873; she was born in Fleming Co., Ky., June 15, 1851;
they have one child Lizzie, born Sept. 4, 1 874. Mr. Deal is a stanch Republican in
politics, and one of the prominent young men of Menard County.

JOHN H. DEAL, miller, Sweetwater; was born in the city of Baltimore, Md.,
March 20, 1826; is a son of John and Sarah (Wilhelm) Deal; the father was a
native of Maryland, and a butcher by trade; he departed this life Dec. 6, 1826; the
mother remained in Maryland until 1839, when she and our subject came to Menard
Co., where they have since resided ; John H. received such an education, as the schools
of that early day afforded ; in 1852, he and Hugh D. Hughes built the Sweetwater
Mill; it cost, at the time of building, about $2,500; it has been constantly run, with
the exception of one year, since its building; it is now the property of J. H. Deal and
J. L. Hughes son of Hugh D. Hughes; it was one of the first steam-mills in Menard
Co., and has ground more than one million bushels of grain since it was built. Mr.
Deal is the present miller, and to his exertions the mill owes its success and pop-
ularity. He was united in marriage with Jane Eldridge in 1848; she was born in
England Sept. 8, 1828; from this union there were six children, two of whom are
now living; she died Sept. 4, 1861. Mr. Deal was again married Aug. 23, 1866, to
Mary E. Enslow; they have four children by this union. Mr. Deal is a Republican
in politics.

Thought For The Day

Dare to be yourself.

--Andre Gide

Just in case you are interested, at the time I wrote this there were 269 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes left before Christmas. Better get your shopping done before it's too late! With gas prices as high as they are and expected to go higher, you may want to do your shopping early because by Christmas your car may be parked for good. And it's pretty hard to carry packages when you ride your horse to town.

Gas prices. Gas Prices. GAS prices. GAS PRICES! They are getting bigger. My wallet is getting smaller. Those persons who retired less than well off, are having a hard time managing their fixed incomes. The high price of gas means increased prices in food stuff, and services of any business.

Will it go higher.? Sure it will. The price increases by 20 to 40 cents when it goes up but, when the price goes down, it's measly pennies.

There's not a whole lot we can do about it. Too many people are bottom feeding from the profits and they will not let the prices fall. So get used to it folks.

Heed my advice. Start your Christmas shopping today, when you go to buy your Easter candy and Easter baskets. The Easter Bunny really won't care that he is competing for your shopping dollars. He's only interested in hopping down the bunny trail with his basket of goodies. He has about the same list as Santa but doesn't have to go to some countries.....good thing because by the time he's done, his old hopper is about worn out.