The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-11
THE CHARM OF The KIND HEART.
What is Beauty or Brilliancy When the
-Heart Within is of Ice?

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What a potent charm is the charm of
the kind heart!
When we look around us at those per-
sons within our own circle. of acquaint-
ances toward whom our hearts are
warmest our thoughts do not turn to the
handsomest women or the cleyerest
women, but to those whom we associate
with gracious deeds and sympathetic
words. 20; !,
It's the woman to whom we can tell
our troubles and be sure Of an interest
and sympathy that, u.s. genuine that, we
love. The woman who from sheer kind
ness of heart goes out Of her way to give
us pleasure. We love the woman we can
count on through thick and thin. who
crasies perhaps. has heart al true as
steel to those she has taken? into the in
ner circle.
The woman with the kind heart never
recognizes the charm of it. Nine times
out of ten she would choose beauty or
brilliancy in lieu of it.
But honestly now, what, after all, is
beauty or brilliancy when the heart in
side is ice. 7"
Beauty and kind heart, or brilliancy
and kind heart is powerful combina-
ton, but either alone have their limita-
tons.
TO be sure, there ever was, and ever
Wlll be, masculine fools ready to throw
themselves and their fortunes and their
honor at the feet Of beautiful vampires
who demand their hearts blood to sat
isfy their vanity
so there are women willing to sacri-
nee themselves for brainless Adonises,
put such are exceptions. The average
man and the average woman are not so
ready to play the fool.
Is there anything more repellant than
a woman both plain and unsympathetic?
One can lind a certain amount Of satis-
1actlon IN looking at beautiful woman,
even though he knows her to be heart
less, but there is not one redeeming
k tfadIfe a6oq Ut an Ugly woman with 20
A man who was sensitive to atmos-
pheres set out not long ago to find "a
country hotel for himself for the sum
mer. He visited two and came home
WIN ms mind made up in favor of the
one winch from external appearances
would seem the least desirable.
she lmeaning the landlady) has kind
neart. l selected her hotel because I
liked her. I was warm and she led me
10 the cool spot on the veranda She
brought me fan and sent the boy for
O glass OF spring water. She didn't do
these things from policy, but because
kindness was instructive with her, Her
heart stuck out all over her plump moth
erly person..
There wasn't a pretty thing about
her. She was a shortwaisted and
dumpy and her hair was skinned back
from her face into little neat knot
behind, but there was kindness in her
sort eyes and certain fussy, henlike So
hcitude in her manner that appealed
to my lonesomeness. go
Il could swear: that if I was i'll she
would rub my chest with goose grease
anc brew YARDS for lie and watch by
my bedside all mig bit if necessary.
woman. -,
"Her black eyes were as hard as a
couple of pieces of anthracite coal stuck
in her head. :
II had pulled up a steep hill to get to
her place, but she did not suggest my
resting, but let me stand that she might
the better size up my personal appear
ance with her gimlet-like eyes, She
seemed to be calculating how much it
would be safe to stick me each week.
Il wasn't a human being to her-I
simply represented so much cash.
If | were iii would pay we'll for the
trouble | caused her and any attention
l received would come from the bellboys.
She was hard, selfish, mercenary to the
core. You couldn't love that woman if
she was the only one on earth. Some
phlegmatic soul with a chronic tired
feeling might marry her for her money
sane man binding himself to see her every
day for any other reason.
YES" concluded the sensitive man,
lit was the kind heart of the plump little
landlady that drew me to the humber
hotel"