Woman’s Most Formidable Weapon, Los Angeles Herald, December 23, 1906

Glasses are prosaic things at the best, and therefore a handicap in the way of a love affair.

In the first place, don’t read on the car on your way down town. But, you say, the only chance you get to read is on the car. Then give up your reading, for it is much more important for a woman to be pretty than learned.