Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-08-08
The Worlds Acceptance Of Us.


be-
At first flash we are inclined to chal.
lenge this statement. But the fact is
we "giye ourselves out" ma great many
ways we neither intend nor suspect.
Ones carriage, movements, expression
of face, attitudes, voice: the choice and
fit of our clothes, and our habitations,
our friends and companlons-all are
but network of "looped and window
cd raggedness' through which he that
runs may get glimpse of our real
character and know more in certain
ways about us than we know about
ourselves.
A dog always knows when you are
afraid of him. You march past HIM
with an air of bravado. What stink of
your eye, or untoward wrinkling of
your clothes, or unconscious quickening
of your motion, gave out to the dog
that your heart was being dissolved
within you? There was something that
told it; and dog knew it. A horse
knows instantly when the hand Of
master holds the reins; and little chill.
dren know whom to trust and whom to
suspect, whom to obey and whom to
defy.
You enter street car and the man
opposite who gives YOU casual glance
settles very definitely some things you
never suspected in yourself There is
a fine line Of superciliousness in your
face, especially when the car goes past a
low quarter, there is slight toss of
your head when you gather back your
skirts from the washer woman with the
dirty baby; there was hardly hair
breadth Of motion, but it told direction
as plainly as if it had been two miles.
You pose before yourself and your world
as a benevolent person. You assist at
the Cash girls Fair and the Children's
FRESHMAN Fund and dress Christmas
dolls, and you love your neighbor as
yourself In many ways which you could
mention. but you "give yourself out to
be- something quite different from your
ideal self by turn of the lip or tone
of the yoice-a word spoken or word
omitted.
You have heard people use French
phrases to convey the idea thai they
were conyersant with that language
but instead they gave out very definite
ly that they knew nothing whatever
about it. Some slight difference of
sound-yery slight, but absolutely i'm
possible to one who understood himself
-betrays alike the ignorance and pre-
tense Of the would. be Frenchman.
Haye you never seen young girls sign
themselves in autograph books rotre
anne or "rOhC anu Well, they
simply give themselves out"
Have you never seen a lady keep the
conversation in her hands and at her
own level from herself as the center,
she reels off platitudes, or hurls javelns
of remarks among her guests, who gasp
monosyllabic replies. This lady prides
herself upon being an entertainer, a
conversationalst, the queen of the &C.
casion; but in truth she gives herself
OUT as fearful bore-a person to be
run from thousand miles.
ut might have been worse" said an
old Engllehman when his wife died;
''it might have been me-" lie thought
he was justifying the ways of God to
man"-but he was only "giving himself
out us il selfish man as he was, for
everybody else was of opinion that 1t
had better have been him that died.
81 keep my keyhole stuffed with pa
per" said discreet dnenna in il whis
per; and this gave out that she her
self was in the habit of keyholes
A lady makes herself slave to IN
elegant wardrobe-and she looks like
what she subjects herself to; she conveys
some definite impression Of the suprem-
;lcy of clothes and the subordinacy Of
herself. She can never have the subtle
air OF distinction which woman has
who does not think of clothes, who can
look right without spending great and
constant thought upon her garments.
So in thousand ways the impression
we really make is exactly opposite to
the impression We designed to make.
Probably the great German was not
far from The truth when he said, "7he :
aror/d accepts ercry 1erSo" for uhat he
oirrs hin'seH ont to b."
-Muy1vt Emma Ditto, IN august
WIDE 4 WAKE
Condensed Truths.