The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-13
WOMEN AND sENTIMENT.


Customs May Have Charged, But the key
to IA Woman Heart Has Not.
II always think of you when I see
viole's," man said the other day to
q girl.
The girl b!ushed and smiled and.
of course, asked him why.
20, I don't know" said the man,
II just do"
And that was all | heard. The
noise of the train a. it rushed out
from the gray shelter of the sta ton
shed into the winter sunlight kept
me from hearing more. | would
have liked to have heard, for I am
sure there was lot of pretty senti-
ment mixed up in that conversation.
1t began well.
The bunch of violets the man had
the girls jacket. He had offered
them to her when he told her thai
the dear purple blossoms We're al
ways suggestive Of her to him.
Maybe he TOLD her he loved her that
bright winter morning. as the train
sped along past brown fields white
patched here and there with snow
maybe he told her that he had quite
made up his mind that the world,
even though violets might bloom on
every hill slope, would be dull and
colorless thing for him without her.
If he wanted to tell her these
things he made a good beginning.
A bit Of pretty sentiment is one of
the best Of keys to open a woman's
heart. Talk to her of the pictures
she paints, of the books she writes
and the plays she likes, praise her
ability and good taste and she is in
teresIed, but compare her to a flower,
or use any other touch of tender SEN
tlment that may occur to you, and
If you are mau-yOu will find that
her heart responds. The cleve' est
woman in the world is sentimental.
You may not guess it from her bear
ing nor from her conversation, hut
she is sentimental. Not in a silly
fashion, but in "A good, natural fash
ion. A woman without sentiment is a
sorry sort of being. She misses so
much that makes life worth living.
She doesn't find music in the laugh
of a little child, and she never dis
covers beauty in the small, lOwly
things of Gods creation, and yet
there is beauty there. But who
knows such woman? | do not. |
think she lives only in books.
A woman prizes one rose sent or
given in tender way more than she
does two dozen hurriedly called for
from the florist by telephone. A big
bunch of roses is a delight in its own
way, nothing can spoil its beauty
and sweetness, but a pretty note
that implies that the sender Of the
flowers has taken time to devote
more than moments thought to
the one who receives them goes a
great way toward adding beauty and
sweetness to the naturally lovely
blossoms. fancy the girl who re-
ceives tender little note with a
bunch of roses takes more care to
clip the stems every day to keep the
flowers fresh than she would had no
particular message come with the
flowers. She may love them for
their sakes alone, but it is woman's
way to love the smallest of gifts
more for somebody's sake than for
the beauty or value of the gift alone.
This is fact, and one that it may
be we'll to remember at holiday
time.
Men have a way of forgetting the
Sittle things that women remember
and which mean so much to them
There are the anniversaries Of
weddings aud births, and the holt
days, when there are all sorts OF
chances to indulge in little senti-
ment along with gift making. II
hardly heals the wound in a wo,
mans heart to be told u week after
the wedding or birthday anniversary
has passed: Il forgot all abOu it
my dear. Never mind, I'll not for.
get it again. A woman may have
counted 90 wedding anniversaries
and yet she has not Outlived that
feeling of disappointment that comes
when the man to whom she has
given her heart and hand fails to
remember and say: 1T is inst SC
many years to-day since We were
married" If the holiday season
passes without some gift, however
small, from him, then the holiday
season for her il incomplete. If he
man like, detests to 90 into the
shops gift hunting, he can at least
stop on his way home from the office
Christmas eve and buy Il bunch o
bright flowers and present them
with "A merry Christmas" wish
Indeed, | will venture to say tina
there is many matron whose glossy
locks are beginning to show thread,
of silver, who has not had IA bnnct
of roses all her very own since heI
girlhOod days. sentiment and
flowers 90 so well together.-Mar
garet Hannis.