Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-07-05
NeauiY Rules.

Rule onc.--A wOmsn's power in the
world is measured by her power TO please.
Whatever she may wish to accomplish size
will best manage 1t by pleasing. A WON
ans grand social aim should he TO
please.
And let me tell you how that is to be
done" Sophia said, putting down her pa
per for moment.
"a woman can please the eye by her
appearance, her dress, her face and her
figure. Sue can please the ear by study
ing the art Of graceful elocution, not bard
for any OF us, for by nature VIC speak
with finer articulation than you She can
please the mind by cultivating her own
so far, at least, as 10 make her good
listener; and as much further rs she will
she can please the fancy by ladies vii. OF
which all of us have n share She can
please the heart by amiabi'ity. See here"
she continued. growing graver, you have
the KEY of my system. Beauty OF per
son Is only one feature of true beauty.
Run over the qualities. See how small a
part personal beauty or the freshness OF
youth plays here. ! want you to OBJ
serve this; for my art would consist
not in making women attractive vino are
openly pretty and young, but in showing
them that youth and prettiness, though
articles of beauty. are neither the only MOI
the irtispt nsnb Articles. y
Rule two.-Modesly is tie G,onnd I'll
which all woman 5 charms appear iC
the best advantage. In manners, d'esS
conversation, remember always that mod
\ astv p,llSt never he i0rUDit ten
."iIar.lIv Likely 10 te,' | mumurcd
lis it?"
"Under>tand me-" answered Sophit
brisklv. Il mean mudcs'y in vrry tx
tended sense. There is now a-daIS ;
tendency in women la rein'l against old
fashioned moles,v The dJctrine Of ito
ertv is spteadn. Smnng lis, Tor which
Thank Gol,' Sophia said. Che WAS TIN
oldest litt,. mixture Of tory and whg an'
radical ever compounded on this eccentric
earth J - But the first fleets Of thu
doctrine on cur minds are liule con!us
ing. We are growing more Independent
and more individual. Some of Us fame
tia, to he modest is 10 be oldiashionod
and of course we want the newest fash
ion in all things, II miintain," Sophr
fancicd 1 might argue back maintain
that modest woman IS the reply of m
sex TO brave man-you can no NOR
have true woman wlhOu' lupdtsly thai
a true man without courage. But
remember, | use the word mGdesty in
high sense"
Just VIVA, | was going to ask" said
Not prudcry,' she added. "pruder'
is to modtsty what brag is TO bravery
Prudery is on the SUI face; modesty Is il
the soul Ro.nliud in her boys suit
delightfully."- modest, hut not" SoPhi
said, with a twinkle in her eye, ''hOt yer
prudsh. is shep'.
asseuted, and thus made way for
Rule three Always dress up TO you
agc or little beyond it let your perso
DO the Youngest thing about you, not tn
oldest
Rule four -Rcmrmbtr that what wome
admire III themselves is seldom what me
admire IN tli' IN
in uiDe drawing rooms out uf ten
S,'phia said, seeing me give Look q
inquiry H. she read This article, Mirand
or Cort!eiia, as novel lieroineS, would b
voted b res Wumrn would say, "
utterly decline 10 accept these walery gin
as tyl ical Of us; we want smariness an
Ire. don't really care much fu' MlTand
or Cordelia myself Now this seems to NJ
to cant ION us against trusting too implicit
'Or too far our own otions ate ourselves
Apo her source misunderstanding come
(Irnt yt.u nuve-wrilors. We are the novel
rcnloIs, and The novelist is forced 10 writ
3 10 H,,na ~,
wait 10 offend Us. Thus it comes abot
thai even the mliG hCveIlst is too ole
only dcy0ct 10 women women, after al
Ami hntte We scores of modern girls ar
spn.uSlv misted for this very reason
lhfv telipro ihty are finding out whS
men lhne Of them, when in truth the
are reading their own notions hande
back to til, IN under pretty disguise.
Rule five. Woman's beauties are 81
Com mems beauties
Which. she remarked, is another forl
Of what | sad just now. only here spen
of personal beauty. NY observation Ii
= that if ten men and ten women were TO
= into the same company, and each Sc
choose the prelti, st women there, as the
e thought, YOU would rarely find that the
. choose the same. II this be so, we ougt
not TO trust ourselves even as to our fnct
wubcul considering that the sex we are
= plense must 10 the end settle the question
AMI will settle the question in It's own way
Rule six Gaioly tempered by serious
> Etss is the bappiest manner in society.
By which meau, Sophia said, lookin
at me with knitted brows, as if she wcr