Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-01
Tuesday, Nov. 8. Don't
forget the date.
HOW To RE INTERESTING.

Chas. Dudley Warner in Editors Drawer Of
Harper's Magazine for November.
Most persons, it may be admitted, can
not become interesting without an eff
fort. The Drawer knew a man of an
inquisitiye but not primarily an origi-
nal mind who was always most enter
tanning companion on account OF his
information, upon which he drew mod
estly, and without boring anybody,
whenever it was needed. And having
the habit, he kept himself filled up by
reading and observation. The society
of man of this sort never pals, if, of
course, he has been well enough brought
up to be personally agreeable. While it
is not possible to prescribe rule by fol-
lowing which girls may become enter
tanning and always desired members of
society, it is safe to say that person
will never be interesting unless she is
interested. To be interested in some
thing outside of ones self is a necessity
of the situation. That always with any
companion makes a point of interest
There has been growing complaint
this seaSon-and it is one of many sea-
sons standing the scarcity of young
men at the resorts, and it has also been
limited that the young men who did ap-
pear were unintereSting This is the fault
of young men, for the young women have
been as attractive as ever. But it must
be kept in mind that however devoid of
entertaining qualities men may be at a
certain age, from lack of experience and
of any actual taking hold ofIife (or from
the idea that they know it all, they will
soon plunge into work, either business
or profession, that will interest them,
and teach them knowledge of human
nature and of affairs, and then they will
become, in one degree and another, in
teresting persons. Where will the young
women be then who have been content
to rely upon the charms of youth and
beauty, and have cultivated no interest
in anything beyond the more or less
artiicialities of being agreeable in a
conventional society? No partnership
goes well unless all the parties contrib
ute something to it. Marriage is no
exception to this, as a great many peo-
pie have discovered, even those who
do not accept the cynic's definition that
marrige is intended for discipline. Love
being, of course, the attraction in mar
riage, good comradeship, is the working
capital, and good comradeship between
uninteresting people is an impossibility,
unless each is too stupid to find out what
the other lacks.
This goes upon the assumption-per-
haps it is strained one in these days.
that getting married ought to be an OBJ
ject to be considered in preparation for
life. But the argument for a girl to
make herself interesting by gaining in
formation and by throwing herself en-
Enthusiastically into some sort of pursuit
is still stronger if she intends to remain
single, or remains so by chance For to
be destined to ones own company when
one is uninteresting and devoid of ex-
ternal interests is dreary outlook. On
the other hand, is it feared that modern
education will be pushed too far, and
girls will become so interesting that they
can find no equal mates? There some
times seems to be this danger. But it
can at worst only be temporary. Boys
are very quick to "catch on" Git is their
OWN phrase) to new idea, and whatev-
er course girls take they are reasonably
certain to draw all men after them.-l
The world has been so arranged.