The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-10
Tact Is tho only reliable cement for

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Tact is tho only reliable cement for
friendships, engagements, and marriages.
II enables Laura to understand. how
alter fours hours fasting, Victor loved her
mono the less, but dinner more. Il SUD
ports her in those lonely hours when
Victor yields himself up 10 that inexpll-
cable fascination men find 10 the society
Of their own sex. II enables her to rc-
sign herself entirely 10 Victor's persistent
ignoring of his slippercase, and his deter.
inmate forgetting that boota were not pri.
marily designed as ornaments Tor sitting
rooms. 1t lays tho blessed seal of silence
on her lips when Victoria domestic re-
forms prove q dead failure. 1t Is the
happy faculty which teaches her when
Victor ejrculates, II told you SO! l might
have known you wouldn't put those but.
tons on;" or, "OI course there are no
socks In my drawer. ! never expected
to find anything whore II ought to be,"--.
to blandly respond, "Aly dear, l am so
glad I never yet disappointed you. Ial-
ways do Just as you expect me toe-don't
If Tact Is embarrassingly quick at dis
corning personal facts, It Is also the beat
instructor Ia the
sAHcTrTY OF OTHERS sEcRRTs.
II learns them without a revelation, and It
guards them without o promise. 1t IL
only the human donkey that, because he
has accidentally discovered that young
Bright, who rides down with him every
on the accommodation train, is
tho witty "Rapier" Of the Tribune, slaps
him on tho back familiarly, with "aow
are you, Rapierw loud enough for all
their mutual acquain,ances In the car to
hear, and introduces him TO wondering
strangers simply IA "'isapier' Writes
those witty 'Thrus,s' In tho morning pa
per, you know" Now, young Brights
nom do plume is as much his private per.
{ topal affair as his courtship, and he would
confer a benefit on all the literary guild.
besides conveying useful hint TO tho hu.
man donkey, by knocking him down.
Persons who orc apologetically describ.
ed by all their acquaintances as being an
mated by "thc best intentions In tho
world,n are generally utterally destitute
OF Tact. OF this class are tho men who
call other men by their Christian names
at the third meeting, and favor lady &C.
quaintance with nudge or q pull 10 at.
tract their attention; the women who con-
sole their lady.iriends Tor contretemps
with the fratcrnal idiocY, "Oh it's only
Harry" and all the people who senseless.
ly make puns upon your names, jokes up.
on your business, and who arc continually
reminding you Of "those old times"' the
memory OF which you privately detest.
The blunders perpetrated- by "persons Of
good intentions" arc perfectly blood. d.curd.
ling to tho Witnesses. 1t was one OF this
numerous class who. at an evening. g.recep.
tion, on being shown by his host choice
and extensive library, threw himself back
In his cu.ir, aut pursed up his mouth.
saying, "Yes "a great many books. o.
course you don't know what d inside the
most ot them" Another Of these blum
dercrs was astonished at the awkward 81
lencc which followed his witty quotation
from IL celebrated authoress, until, when
it was 10 late, he remembered, with
sickenipg sense Of his own stupidity, that
his host was an ex.husband OF tho author.
ess. It is mistaken idea that good intcn.
tions can supplant good manners.
Because one man Rdmires genius,
and. is regretfully conscious Of his
lack Of 1t, has he thereby earned any
right to bore another man who Is a
genius? Because a man is an artist, he
does not wish 10 be button.holed at an
evening party, 10 hear econiums on his
productions, interspersed with quotations
from Anecdotes Of Great Painters;' nor,
because woman has written some clever
stories, does she care to be penned In
corner, away from MI the desirable guests
and put through a tircsomc catechism
as to what she Is writing now; what she
wrote last; why she doesn't take this, that.
or the other subject Tor the groundwork OF
her next fiction; and whether her mental
operations are most like Irving's or Dick.
ens',-between which great minds and
her own she Is absurdly conscious there
is all the difference that exists between
duck pond and tho ocean.
; There is a blessed a
bhNhis VI bhtuhtl1
in the companship Of people Of Tact. II,
after an evening spent In such society,
you'wake up suddenly In the night, with
q lightning. like consciousness Of some
horrible blunder you unwittingly perpe-
trated, and your blood seems liquid fire,
and the sheets are covered with thorns.
and the pillow seems made Of live Goals,
II Is o soothing thought that your tactiul
companions seemed obllvious Of your
awdwardness, and will persist in that OBJ.
liyion TO the end. Then you suddenly
realize that the highest social culture con.
sists In instantaneous recognition Of what
not 10 see,-what not TO hear,-what not
to say. You understand for the first time,
how all personal experience may be util-
ized to make symmetrical characters,-
genial, tolerant, sanguihe, and sympa-
thetic. a'pa "'t 4s'.'i .4-
TIE SECRET OF ENJOYING LIFE -
lies in continually remembering It's oreW.
ty. We should not quarrel with our
friend, If we thought he might dir before
night. This wife would never utter the
rebukc against tho strictly masculine
on' on The II floor, % II she thought that, before
many days, the husbands careless hands
would be folded over his pulselesa breast.
There would be no impatience over the
noisy patter OF cbildren's feet upon the
staifs. II tho tired mother knew that, IN
one short weeks time, those little feet
would be lying forever stilled, with the
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