The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09


pliments; she is natural, .unconven-
tional, considerate and kind. She
never speaks i'll of any one.
You like to be near her as, in cold
weather you like to be near a stove.
She emanates warmth. She is cheer
full. sensible, sensitive. and polite.
In contact with lovely women 1
have sometimes felt as if 1 was lean
ing against the North Pole. In the
presence of some charming women
with turned-up noses, showing gums
and teeth, with features irregular all
over the place, l have felt happy, hav
ing a most enjoyable time.
The worst of charm is that it is in
definable and cannot be taught. If it
could, how many women who are only
striving to be as beautiful as they can
would do their best to learn how to
be charming!
Alas, charm is an accident and can
not be acquired, and that is why it is
so delightful and so fascinating.
The charming woman is the very
opposite of vain, and conceited; she is
simple and unpretentious. and has a
keen sense of fumor, which is the out
come Of simplicity in the character. On
every subject she is tolerant and a
philosopher. and the result is that she
never grows old.
You might say of her, when she gets
old. what was said of Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the most charming man
whom | have ever met, when he died.
"She is 81 years young" The charm
ing women knows how to grow old
and is as much loved by her grand
children as she was by her grandpar-
ents when she was a young girl.
AS rule the charming woman is
clever, but if she knows it she never
makes a show of her knowledge on
any particular subject She is not as
sertive, but suggestive; that is to say
she exerts influence upon her mental
environment. What makes you so
pleased with her is that she makes
you pleased with yourself.
She studies you, and, whatever you
prove to be. she manages to place her
self just one inch or two below YOU.
Ii you rise. she rises with you. She
may be as learned as you like, there
is no one to compete with her to en-
terrain children, and the youngest
ones, with lovely stories
She never places herself on a nedes-
tai. so that she never has to come
down from the top of her dignity and
greatness. She is of this earth. and the
best thereof. Happy the man who has
her for mother, wife or daughter. for
the charming woman is loving and
lovable.
The other day, says Dorothy Pix in
the New Orleans Picayune, l was one
OF group of women who waited their
turn in the anteroom of a fashionable
dressmaker, and the conversation
drhted. as was natural, to the subject
of clothes.
Il see said the debutante. who
thinks she believes in the occult. that
there is a seer in London, who reads
your character from your clothes. You
have only to send him a description
OF your gowns and hats and wraps.
and tell him the color of your eyes.
and he will read your character. and
tell you just what tastes. and opin-
ions, and likes and dislikes you have.
Isn't it wonderful"
Not at ALL" replied the girl who
has been out four seasons. ut is no
trick at all. l can tell by a Woman's
clothes within a year or two of her
age, and how much experience of the
world she has had. She may conceal
other ear marks, but her clothes are
always a dead give-away."
The debutante looked incredulous.
and the older girl went on. Nov, for
instance, | should never have to give
but one glance ait you to know that
this is your first season. Why? Be
cause your frock Is elderly enough for
your grandmother. The first season a
girl comes out she has an Irresistible
hankering for black velvet and dia-
monds, something real nice and ma
tronly. and that win seem to set her
away off from the school room, and
bread and butter. She takes serious
views of life, too and when she is in
troduced to a man she repeats Brown-
ing to him, and asks him if the sight