The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-04

worth doing under the CLEAN of her
brightness. The old feel revived BY the
cheer of her OVERLOOKING heartiness,
while the young hail her as boon COM
panion. The popular woman has the
instinct that her power lies in her ami
nal spirits, and she preserves them at
any cost; she will not let herself be
weighed down or depressed; she keeps
on the sunny side of life. If her SYM
pathies be superficial, they are ready
and cordial; but her charities do not
take the form of obscure and silent min
istrations. She prefers to make merry
for the sake of the afflicted she is ready
to lend helping hand to getting up
ball, private theatricals, Or a bazaar for
their benefit. She becomes the moving
spirit Of any form of amusement devised
for the profit of the needy.
The popular woman is very easy
going and largely tolerant. Next to her
animal spirits this indulgent temper is
her greatest charm. We feel at ease in
her presence; there is no necessity to
put ones best foot forward intellectu-
ally and morally we can keep on our
slippers and relax the backbone of our
principles. Her indulgence does not
spring from the charity that g xnoweth
no evil, nor from the cynicism that be-
heyes in evil only; but from her knowl-
edge Of man and woman kind. It is
knowledge not profound or subtle. but,
such as it is, it is varied and true. It
has the advantage of being taken from
nature it is not second hand, nor de-
rived from books or heresay. This
knowledge of human nature, skin-deep
though it may be, gives her the ines
Unable talent of fattery. Hers Is not
obvious fattery, but she guesses surely
what the ears are longing to hear,
the heart to be assured of, and she
serves up the pleasant morsel with suffi-
cient tormenting dispraise to give it a
certain blunt flavor Of truth.
The talk Of the popular woman is
characteristic of herself. It is more co.
pious and brilliant in the larger COM
pany. She does not contribute any
flashes of wit to the conversation, any
number of facts to the store of learning;
but there is the crispness of originality
in her remarks, a certain raciness Of ex-
preston that gives piquancy to her
phrases. A gilt peculiar to her is rapid
appreciation of the wit, Of others; pow
er Of Selling. it and throwing a cream
upon it.that makes it evident to duller
brains. She is not sarcastic and
never on the heights. SIow-witted
and commonplace folk do not fear her.
She will not soar above the level Of their
comprehension, and she will not dart
those shafts of irony they have an uncom-
Portable feeling their clever sisters occa-
sionally level at them. Intellectual
folk take pleasure in a companionship
that is easy and not dull. It is an in
contestable fact that people of intellect
find relaxation in the society of those
who do not require them to be always
pumping their brains. They like gossip,
and the popular woman is fond Of Cos
sip. She knows how to tell story we'll,
with appreciation Of it's points, and with
@ certain dramatic instinct, enlarged by
her knowledge of human nature. It is
seldom, however, thai the origin of an
ill-natured story can be traced to her.
If she relates scandal, it is amusing and
not bitter; and she usually relates it in
a tone that conveys an excuse for the
sinner. Her. hearers feel that, should
their defects or weaknesses be handled
by her, she will not deal unkindly with
them. She admits that she likes second
rates in everything second-rate in
tellects, second-rate books, second-rate
wines. One Of her pleasantest attri-
butes is that she knows how to laugh at
herself, and is in such excellent humor
with her own faults that it is difficult to
cavil at them - The Queen.