Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-09-02

trap. Monsieur Millionaire, seeing the
delightful cheese, will lcok at it, will
sniff at it, will enter the cage, taste
the cheese, then turn round in 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
charming dinner and then given him
the liberty to come or go. as he pleased.
This delights him. He comes back, he
nibbles bit more and then thinks it's
stupid eating alone. Suddenly. be re-
members 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 herself
One day, quite by accident, there is
tete a tote, and then you can leave the
rest to Providence
That'a the way to set mousetrap for
a 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
ana how good the cheese is. Then DOM
overwhelm him with too many atten-
tions. and he il yours.
1t was man who said this: Most
of the trouble is that Ia great desire
to he clever and charming the average
woman forGets to be comfortable. !"
And it is the comfortable woman who
keeps mankind straight. She may mot
know very 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 a man
feel at ease, is the woman who is going
to have the greatest control over him.
/ know woman who is not particu-
larry beautiful, whose English is ordi-
nary, but who really has the most mar
velous power over men. Great kind
nesses are shown to her, fortunes have
| come to her, and everybody has won
dered 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
| vet about this woman tho men gather
| as the bees do about the sugar. What
is her secret?' And | told her: "a
pleasant manner. Sac always has an
agreeable greeting when you meet her,
she is sufficiently full of tact to put an
end to disagreeablo topic, and no man
ever saw her out OF temper. She's
thoroughly comfortable.
1t il the old story Of the charmeuse
not OF necessity being lovely to lool
upon. Most of US can try to be com
Portable. 1 suppose the real secret,
after all, is making the best of every
thing. Each ono of us can try to MAKE
thu best of everything, and when VIZ
can't help it an effort can be made tt
give little assistance to 1t.
It's just as well to make the best o
chattering neighbor, but before yol
cut her acquaintance be careful to Civ
her nothing to gossip about
It's Just as well TO maks the best o
a bad dinner. There is no law in th'
land, however, that prevents you from
giving your opinion OF it in stron!
forms TO the cook.
It's Just as well to make the best o
an ugly woman. Sometimes she ha
more brains than beauty.
It's just as we'll to make the best 0
tiresome man. You may want hi
vote somu day.
1t is Just as well not TO have over
strong opinions. 1t is less troublesom
to change your mind.
1t is just as we'll to make the best O
bad bargain, no matter what form
may come under. But don't imagin
you will find on the bargain counte
tine writer Of this, who signs herself
yours for tile best, Bah.