Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-12-30
Weman's Winning Card.


ness.
She may be capable of countless self
sacrifices, Infinite tenderneSseS and end
less resources of WISDOM bat if she cloaks
these very excellent possessions under a
garb CT melancholy, she may almost as
we'll not have them. so far as the ordi-
nary world with which she comes in daily
contact is concerned.
Fell the average busy man that a
bright, lovely flower blooms away down
IN an underground cave, and he won't
care enough or have time enough to delve
down there to look at it. But let the
flower nod its lovely face up in the day
light, OF the everyday level the busy
man treadS. and he is certain to see it
and pretty sure to look at it with pleas
ure, too.
That is cheerfulness The root of glad.
ness may be in the hear all right. but it
has to blossom out into a sunny face and
pleasant words before men will pay the
slightest attention to il.
Tins sunny aspect toward the world is
the only footing upon which social inter
course can be based Someone has QUOT
ed society as saying:
Come, let us gather up violets and
make them into balls. Then l will toss
them at you and you will toss them at
me-"
Foolish? Oh, no. For while we toss
all making each others acquaintance and
laying the groundwork over which we
may walk up to such closer relationships
as the fateS have destined for US: and
meanwhile the air is made fragrant for
everybody. Whereas, if we set with dour
face, scornlng to toss violets. why, then,
we are just left out OF the game and all
its consequences. And nobody cares-but
ourselves, when it is too late
cant walk IN tO man oo1
straightway ask him his circumstances,
his family. his opinion, or what is more
to the point, his disposition ap1 aspect
toward the world. But you discover
these things incidentally while you play
society's pretty pastime of Singing
violets.
You have to be cheerful to play that
game. People won't play with you if
you're not. You simply have to give the
world that thoroughfare by which to ap,
preach you, or be left hermit all your
days
Cheerfulness does for a woman's heart
what broad piazzas, pleasant windows
ana wide doors do for house. They
give promise of pleasantness within and
offer access thereto. While the heart of
cold, oyer-reserved or melancholy WON
an is like a grim. forbidding fortress.
without doors or windows to give man
foothold. Whatever marvellous treas
nreS it concealS he has no knowledge of
anything there to compensate him for
the danger and trouble of scaling its
walls.
To drop all SMILES, men like a cheerful
woman. She attracts them every time.
And they don't like and never win like
a woman with a long face and moping.
melancholy ways. This sort never gets
On socially. seldom has much influence.
and is pretty sure to be as unhappy all
her days as she makes other people
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
How Secrets Get Out.
How secrets become known and COS
siry information is disseminated are one
of the mysteries Of social life "a little
bird told me-" is generally the accepted
evasion OF a too direct inquiry in regard
to the source of any acknowledged in
formation, the so-called birds that dis
tribute the gossip that makes the very
principals themselves wonder how the
tale became known being many and vari-
Gus. The massage Bird the '.'mani-
cure bird. the hello bird are only a
few of the different species that CLEAN
here and there the tidbits of news which
they scatter broadcast among their Gus
toners.
What do women expect when they
talk freely and without reserve among
themselves before the comparative
strangers who minister to their various
needS: said 4 matron who was COM
mentlng on the possible leaks through
which carefully guarded secrets escape
Nv omen of the great world are like
Pauline Bonaparte, who said in gard
to her footman, 'Mais, ma chere, appelle
tn ca un homme?' They really act as
It attendants were automatons, and not
human beings especially endowed with
an eager curiosity in all that appertains
TO those who consider themselves their
masters and miStresses. People are very
apt. too. to be indiscreet on their tele-
phone Wire, she continued. 1.-The per-
son at the end of the circuit generally
feels that the speaker and the listener
are separated from the rest of the world
and quite secure against eawesdroppers.
The truth is. however, that lot only may
their wires be crossed and their entire
conversation distinctly audible to some
acquaintance who is at her own instru-
ment: but the Central like the spider
in the middle of huge web. can listen
whenever it interests her to do so.
"Apropos of that she added. lsan
amusing little incident was told to me the
other day: A girl whose recent engage
ment is still supposed to be a great secret.
quite unsupported by any of her friends.
so carefully have the willy couple con-
cealed their intentions, stopped at a large
betrothed that she would meet him down
town to go to some -the-way restau.
rant for luncheon. SO she was consider
ably astonished the next day when her
mother, to whom she had not mentioned
her expedition, told her she must either
announce her engagement or observe Mrs.
Grundy's rules of etiquette.
Now, lunching with Mr.. u alone down
town yesterday said the older woman.
was not at all the thing, unless people
knew you were engaged"
How could you know?" exclaimed the
girl.
Her mother laughed GIN the queerest
way" she answered. Mrs. CLAYTON told
me. Her nursery governess told her. The
latters sister has charge of the telephone
at MS, and has seen you at Mrs. Clay
tons, and she heard you make the ap.
pointment for luncheon with Mr.. H., and
retailed the bit Of news to her sister, with
whom she had tea last night. New York
Tribune.
The Girl on Visit.
The girl who is invited to a weekend
house party must plan carefully as to