The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-06
NUMBER 81.

the air of one who receives favor in
being allowed to offer it to one so
charming, There is French axiom
that it is impossible to be too polite,
and the accusations Of hollowness and
deceit mndo against Fgeuchmen arc
occasioned by this extreme courtesy.
Perhaps their kiudhenrted evasions
and unwillingness to give pains by
tutoring strong truths, may be classed
among the failings that lean to virtues
side.
If one has crooked back it is pleas
ant to have that doformity ignored and
ones beautiful hair and graceful hands
admired. The freckled lady is at
poace with horaelf and the world when
eLe cts thst lar. charming ,6gere, "a
appreciated, and the gentleman who is
painfully conscious of the squint which
disngures HE eyes, is happy to find for
once that his fine profile or noble
height win more attention than his de-
feet.
About every one the Frenchman can
End something to admire, and his adj
miration is not expressed in coarse
battery, but delicately conveyed by
look, manner or in simple, apparently
accidental phrase. lie honestly wish.
es to give pleasure and he succeeds.
His fine manners are not all assumed,
they are a gift of long inheritance, in
born and inbred and ably supplement
ted by careful cultivation.
There we're rough, heroic souls in
history whose deeds of prowess win
our admiration, but our favorites he
ff3ess after all, are those whose king
, d9ms las in the hearts of their fellow
J men. AVould King Arthor's valiant
l,deeds commanded the applause
: we give them had he not been himself
E the flower of knight chivalry, "gentlo
hammered, as the chroniclors tell us,
/ and constant in those sweet acts of
3 courtesy, which like the quality OF
mercy, blesses both him who giyea ard
{ him who takesg
Sir Walter Raleigh, sr Philip sgd.
ney, and Bayard, tho Chegalier with-
out reproach, are remembered and rev.
cred because of the notable courtesy
Of their manners, when other mon as
, worthy, who hid the sweet kernel
their kindly traits beneath roughe
bearing are half forgotten.
Even in fiction the one characte
which fnds place in every heart 1
i CoiOn@ Nvwu0mei tias-syp vu. nu
, bic gentleman. Ideal though he was
r n mere creation of Thackeray's own
| the rare beauty of his daily life mad
y it one enti,e and chry solite, and we al
! recognize and love in him tho perfoc
ton of fine manners.
Battles have been fought and en-
pires lost for the love of women, and
more potent often than the regal hand
that Yields tho sceptre is the slender
white one, which, behind tho throne,
keeps its firm grasp upon the helm,
Beauty intoxieates, infatuates; but
beauty alone does not sway the hearts
of men endnringly, like that subtle,
Undesirable charm of manner that
women of great influence have posses
sed.
Recamier, Lady Morgan, Madame dc
Degand and host of others retained
their wonderful power of pleasing
long after youth and even middle age
had passed, simply by the fascination
of their charming manners, and count
less instances could DO cited to show
the power and influence in society and
ia the council of nations, of women
who have fully recognized the power
habitual atfabihty and engaging man
ners which Lord Chesterfield defines
to DO "the art of pleasing Mrs. NJ. G..
Hungerford, in New York Observer.
A Page From Buby's Diary.