The age-herald., 1901-06-30

leverage 4 man could not endure she ! strain if he went home to a wife wrapped ID in intellectual pursuits after the days engrossnent Think of a tired man being regaled on dead and buried art treasures or the elucldation of theorems and other obstruse problems He wants to lock up his cares in his desk when he leaves his office at night, and find some thing collaborating when he goes home. Something to laugh at, and woman should cultivate this art-the art to please.
 One need not be foolish or undignified and yet may tell an anecdote in a pleas ing way. and the really clever woman should not aim to impress upon man how smart she is but how smart she thinks him. There are many ways of saying and doing things that would be charming in one woman and horribly bad taste in another. It is like swearing in a man. One man may indulge in continuous performance of blue fire ex- pletives that would sound funny. which, uttered by another, would be abhorrent. One woman may tell a story with a double entendre that would reveal only the whimsical side, which told by an- other would be extremely coarse.
 The cleverness of q keen discernment that parties these shades of meaning adds infinitely to a woman's charm man who calls on or invites woman to dine does not want a school room fete. His object is to be amused and enter tained, and certainly pedagogue in pet ticoats Is not screamingly funny. brilliant and cultivated one need not eff feet a modesty she does not feel. but she can assume an adaptabllity and fall in with the mood of any environment.
 To be gifted is blessing that does not fall to the lot of every one. The woman so blessed should keep this thought in the background that she may not beiit- tie those with whom she associates IT she does this it wins for her we and re- spect. and friends will glaRy speak proudly of her. whereas, if she makes her brilliancy offensivr they would reel no regard fdr. her.
 A 1i..,,sesyi woman is a monstrosity. If you are guilty of writing for Heavens sake never. never, if you can help it. tell it. If you must, however, don't do It until you have secured a mans friend ship. The average everyday man VIII run from a literary woman as he would from snakes or smallpox. And don't try to look literary. People who do little scribbling fancy that they are above poor commonplace mortals, and being geniuses must affect the eccentric tiles of genius, by being above the fads and fancies of the ordinary run of fem ininity Eyeglasses and the hair pulled back so tight that the eyes won't shut. and the eyebrows become dislocated, re- inforced by a severe mode of dress em- phases a contempt for such follies ana indicates an enlarged mentality, and no wonder the men run.
 Eccentricities of genius are all very well, but such adoptions seem rather lack of sufficient tightening of the screws of the upper story or an evidence of funny furniture in the top flat. It is not genius; it is supreme egotism, ana no matter how brilliant woman may be she should never forget ths fact that the world is full of others with thou sand times more brains than she would ever dare lay claim to.
 The big reputation made, and the de- velopment of genius is oftimes due to chance There are more dead geniuses who are undiscovered, and more live ones that will never be discovered, than the world dreams of. The secret Of the development of genius Is to be clever enough to strike the keynote of public fancy. One may write a book, well con eeived. powerfully handled, a model or purest dictions and masterful In every detail. vet it will fall flat, while another may, daringiy. give out something with but little, literary merit. yet which will strike the Keynote and a reputation is made in day, for which others with infinitely more brains have struggled for a life time.
 To pose. as being clever requires con- tinual strain to keep up the reputation.
 Study to be well versed in the topic or the days. Be clever enough to watch the expression on the faces of those whom won are entertaining, because it fur nishes the cue when the conversational baroue Is drifting beyond the proper channel, and always remember that a man or woman who fancies they know IL all Is more or less an insufferable pr1g, and the very subject you are decantlng upon so effusively may have been lire study to the one to whom you are talk ing, and who may be keeping silence 10 see how much you know.
 I can always appreciate a good story even if told at my own expense.
 Some weeks ago a party of gentlemen called bringing stranger. A collection of bad relief photographs lay on the ta- bIe which attracted the strangers at tention, who. asked where got them ,4sThey were. given me" l replied, fwhe [ wrote up the process for some papers and l proceeded to tel now much had been interested and through inc Kindness of the firm making them had been permitted to witness the pro cess which I described. He listened at- tentively. asked one or two questions, and when my story was enoeo' re- marked:
 "Yes. you have 1t right. invented and patented that process
 Ithen felt as the old black nanny said of her young marse, who had just re- turned from college.
 Nanny Nance met one of her marses friends who accosted her:
 Hello, Nanny Nance: hear Marse Bob's home from college,'
 Vas, sar.".,
 '.Marse Bobs been away long time
 "Yas, sar."
 ''I guess he's pretty smart
 The old negress straightened up saying:
 Tod bless yo, honey, yas indeed, so