The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21


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1t is Of great advantage I'd have been
married a little while in the beginning.
but do not know how that can be man.
aged satisfactorily, il Fate is not kind
enough to take the matter in hand,-
Grace Anterior in American Queen. -.
Story Telling as an Art.
There was once time when course
OF elocutiOn was included in eyery girls
education and she repeated narrowing
poetry to her friends on winter evenings
nntil they felt as If some one was sand
tuce that thrilling sensation was pnrf 81
the amateur elocutionist's, programme,
and probably for the same reason she
usually selected poems of bloodshed,
murder and hngering-very lingering
deaths, says the New York World. : :.
NOW women are taught-not elecution
but story telling. which is infinitely to
~ PASAetASu' az Auny OI the TOSnlOn-
able summer resorts last year women
who found time hanging heavy on their
hands Joined these storytelling classes
and gained an accomplishment for the
winter. The teacher. as rule, rave n
term OF twenty lessons for $50 and no
private lessons were permitted, it being
part of the necessary training to tell
your story before a critical and ofttimes
Jealous class. This was, of course. try
ing, but it fitted the pupil for Just what
she must encounter when she ATTEMPTED
to amuse her friends and enemies. One
pathetic story, one humorous, one
Scotch, one Irish, one negro, and a pretty
little love story was the usual course
prescribed. and each woman was taught
to tell these tales with artistic apprecia-
ton of each situation and to make the
good points effective.
The stories were prose ones, dainty
ana charming, but not hackneyed ones
that every one had read, and by way Of
variety few of Kipling's poems were
sprinkled in. If woman became enthu-
siastic over the hit she would make when
she was employing her latest accomplish
ment and wished to add to her stock, the
obliging teacher next gave her a course
OF special stories for Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Years. Easter and a
gooa ghost story warranted to make any
ones hair stand OH end if some rainy
night she should turn the gas down low
and repeat it to a select circle of her
friends.
After this innovation the old-fashioned
Parior eiocutionist may take a back seat
She Will no longer be permitted to har-
row the feelings Of those who can't es:
cape, and the really clever story-teller
Will take her place.-New Orleans Plea
yune.
What Women Find to Do All Day.
1T IS unreasonable to expect that a
man, with his purely masculine cOnceD-
ton OF things, can ever fully appreciate n
Woman's work in the home. any more
than woman can be expected to under
stand fully mans work in the outer
world. writes Edward Box in the La
dles Home Journal But SO far women
nave acquired Il truer conception of mems
work than men have of women's work. !
firmly believe that if men were more an
preclative of wOmen's work in the home
anu regarded housewifery as a profession
and responsible one, deserving of the
highest respect, and requiring quite as
much brain and education as any mascu-
line profession, there would be fewer
women looking for broader fields Of work
and more responsible duties. Men have
made women feel too keenly that It is
what the man does: that it is his profess
sion which moves the world and that the
work which woman does in her home is.
while necessary, vet hardly to be COM
pared with mans achievements. 1t is
this holding III the greater which has
driven many an ambitious woman into
that world to become part of it, and
thus acquire a position of more apparent
Importance. Not given recognition in
their natural work. women have gone out
and tried work that is unnatural to
them"
The Priceless Gift of Tact.
How few women apparently possess
that gracious tact which makes them ap-
pear to be veritable angels in human
form to all who come within the radiance
of their presence.
Some there are who classify tact as a
species of deceit, and it's possessor art
full, if not absolutely dishonest. Bat
these judge only specifically. Tact is in
reality an evidence of kind heart and
innate breeding, and it is 50 gagged by
those who are fortunate enough to he
benefited by it. The tactful woman not
only understands what she would not saw
or do, but by that wizard-like perception
OF the fitness Of things, manages always
right time. She is joy and blessing
to the shy young man or the doubtful
older one. She helps the one to lay aside
his cloak of self-consciousness and. the
other to forget that he is new in social
life and liable to commit certain little
gaucheries incident to his unfamiliarity
with the ways and usages of the fin de
steele drawing room.
This woman so gifted not only covers
an awkwardness of speech or movement,
but by her infinite necromancy Of man
ner converts such an incident into some
thing worthy of praise. Is it any wonder
that she is adored in her home, in the
circle in which she moves, in fact, every
where that she has chance to utilize
the gift which so few are privileged to
possess?
Tact can be cultivated, but in it's hot
house condition never possesses the be-
nign spontaneity of it's natural state. It
seems almost an intuitive quality rather
than matter of training, yet any wom>
an who is DESTROYS of following out the
Golden Rule must perforce exercise it
and by habit force it into a healthier
growth.
ELUSIVE cordiality is not tact The
pitiful desire to win the goodwill of ey-
eryone demonstrated by lack of dignity
in intercourse with the world at large is
not tact. A dozen things are not tact,
but it is easy enough to recognize it when
even one tiny example of it is displayed,
ana such an evidence once seen stamps
itself on the memory as no other exhi-
bition has the power to do.-Philadelphia
Times.
The Art of Dinner Giving.
Dinner giving, very sensibly says wri-
ter in What to Eat, is an art in which
few excel. 1t is easy enough to select
a number of dishes from a cookery book,
and have them prepared in more or less
appetizing manner by ones cook, or to Or
der dinner complete in all it's details
from some caterer; but to make each
out giving him the conviction that he has
dined heavily is feat not often &C.
complished even by the most particular
hostess. The American entertainer is
prone to excess in the quantity in which
he offers to his guests. He does this out
of a mistaken idea of hospitality, not
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