The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-05

are fully aware of their own charms and
value.
ON CATCHING MILLIONAIRES.
Catching millionaire requires very
careful treatment. First you want good
trap. Then you must have a piece of the
best cheese, daintily toasted. Then you
must take the door off the trap. Monsieur
Millionaire, seeing the delightful cheese,
will look for it, will sniff at it, will enter
the cage, taste the cheese, then turn round
in a hurry and start to rush out, fearing
that he is caught. He discovers that he is
not; that you are the soul OF hospitality;
that you have asked him in for charm
ing dinner and then given him the liberty
to come or go, as he pleased. This de-
lights him. He comes back, he nibbles
bit more and then thinks it's stupid eat
ling alone. Suddenly he remembers Mile.
Bud. remembers, too, that she has seemed
to avoid him, and this piques him. He
determines to go and ask her to share his
meal with him. She agrees to do this,
provided some one else is asked. AS the
time goes by he wonders if he shall ever
be allowed to see the pretty one by her
self One day, quite by accident, there is
a tet-a-tete and then you can leave the
rest to Providence.
That's the way to set a mousetrap for
millionaire, for, unlike mouse, the
minute the door closes on him he grows
stubborn and insists on being allowed to
get out, and, equally unlike mouse, you
can't drown him. You must make him
think how charming the bud is and how
good the cheese is. Then don't over
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and he is yours.
THE COMFORTABLE WOMAN.
| 1t was a man who said this: Most
, of the trouble is that in great desire to
be clever and charming the average
woman forgetS to be comforta ble.
And it is the comfortable woman who
keeps mankind straight. She may not
know much about Darwin or Homer,
but the woman who knows how to say
and do a pleasant thing, the woman
who knows how to make man feel at
ease. is the woman who is going to
have the greatest control over him.
know woman who is not parti-
cuarly beautiful, whose English is or
binary, but who really has the most
marvellous power over men. Great kind
nesscs are shown to her, fortunes have
come to her. and everybody has won
dercd why. A woman asked me the
reason for it. She said: There are
800 women who are better looking.
thousands who are better educated, and
yet about this woman the men gather
as the bees do about the sugar. What
is her secret:" And l told her: "A
pleasant manner. She always has an
agreeable greeting when you meet her,
/ she is sufficiently full of tact to put
an end to disagreeable topic, and no
man ever saw her out of temper. She's
| thoroughly comfortable"
SECRET OF HER SUCCESS.
/ 1t is the old story of the charmeuse not
of necessity being lovely to look upon.
/ Most of us can try to be comfortable.
suppose the real secret, after all, is max
ing the best of everything. Each one
of us can try to make the best of every
thing, and when we can't help it an eff
! fort can be made to give a little assist
ance to it.
| It's lust as well to make the best of
chattering neighbor, but before you cut
her acquaintance be careful to give her
nothing to gossip about.
It's Just as well to make the best of a
bad dinner. There is no law in the land,
however, that prevents you from giving
your opinion of it in strong terms to the
cook.
It's just as we'll to make the best Of an
ugly woman. Sometimes she has more
brains than beauty.
It's just as well to make the best Of a
tiresome man. You may want his vote
some day.
It is just as well not to have overstrong
opinions. 1t is less troublesome to change
your mind.
1t is just as we'll to make the best of
bad bargain, no matter what form it
may come under. But don't ina CINE you
will find ON the bargain counter the writ
err of this, who signs herself yours for
the best, Bah.