Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1889-08-13

1 lNt WONlOo hIItFlSNSt w Oo
Goethe says. ''The world accepts every
person for what be- gives hlmself out Ia
be-
At firsi fiash we are inclined io chal-
lcngc this statement. Hut the fact l. We
''giye ourselves out" In grrat many ways
We neither intend nor suspect. Ones
cafriag-, movements, expression ~ face,
attitude, voice. the choice aud ~ ~ our
clothes and our hahltailons. o,ir friends
aud companiOns-al arc hut u network
of "loopcl and wlndowcd pgge'ines-"
through which b. that runs NAV grt a
glimpse ~ our real character aud know
more la certain WAYS about "a than We
know about ourselves.
4 dog always knows when you sr.
afraid of him. You march past him
With an air of brayado. What .link ~
your eve, or uniowarl wrinkling ~ your
clothes. or unconcious quickenlng 10
your motion. gave out Ia the dog that
your heart was hcing dissolved within
youf There vas something that told u I;
and the dog knew Il. \ horse know. In
stanily when the hand of master holds
the rrlns: aud little children know whom
90 trust aud whom to suspect. whom to
Obey aud whom b. defy.
You cutter a strcct-,ar aud the man OPP
posite Who giye- you a casual glanc- set
tles very definitely some thing. you
never suspected In Yourself. There !. q
flne lin. of superclliOusness la your lace,
especially when the ear goes past low
quarter. there u slight toss of your
head when you gather hack your skirts
a. a.. MI
baby therc was hardly hairhrcadth of
motion. bat u told direction az plainly
a. N Il had bern two milc.. You p0se
before Yourself aud your world a. a b.
neyolcnt person. You assist at the Cash
girls Fair and the Childrcn's frr.h-ilr
fund ami drrss Christmas dolls. and you
love your neighl,of ss yourself in many
WaNs which YOU could msution, hut you
give yourself out to b." something
quite different frum your ideal .elf hy
turn of ihr lip or a tone ~ the Noicc-a
Wori spoken or word omitted.
You have heard people use French
phrases Ia convey the idea that they
werr con,er.ant with that language bat
Instead they gave out very definitely that
they knew nothing whatever about IL.
some slight difference II .ound-ysry
slight, bat ahsoluiely impossible to one
Who Understood mself-hctrays alike
the Ignorance aud prcicnse of the would
b. frvnehmin
Have YOU never seen lady keep the
conyrrsatiou Ia her hands and ~ her own
ieVslf from hsrself as the center. she
reels ofi platltude., or hurls jsyclins ~
remarks among her guests, who gasp
monosyllabic replies. This lady prides
herself upon being an entertainer, aud
conVcr.ationalist. the queen ~ the o.
casiou; bat In tu th shc "giyes her
self out" a. fearful borc--a person 90
b. rin from a thousand miles.
''li might have been worse" aid an
old Engllshman when his xlfr died lit
might have b~cn me" liz thought he
wAs "justifying the WAYS 20 God to man"
but hc was only giving himself cut"
as selfish man a. he was, for everybody
else was ~ opinion that u had BITTER
have been him that died.
II keep my keyholc stuffed With pa
per- said discreet duenna In whisper;
aud this "gayc cut" that she herself was
Ia the habit ~ kcyholc-.
4 lady makc- herself slave to an
elegant warlrohc-and she looks like
what .he subjects herself tO; shc conveys
some definite impression ~ the suprcma-
cy ~ clothes and the subor,llnancy ~
herself. She can never have the Slbtle
air 81 distinction which woman has
Who doe. not think of clothes, aud Who
can look right without spending great
aud constant thought upon her gar
ments.
10 In thousand way. the impression
We really make l. exactly opposite 10
the impression w. designed to make.
Probably the great German was not
FAR from the truth when he .aid, The
world accepts every person for what be-
gives himself out Ia b.. hc."-Margarrt Em-
ma Ditto, Ia August Wide Awake.