Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25
PRISCILLA breaches
On the Art Of Being Thankful Grace
fully.

Every girl wishes she was charming. Some
girls wish II so fervently that they actual
ly do something TO bring around the happy
result. Others just build air castles on such
foundations and full pocketbook which
gives unlimited privileges in the matter OF
choosing frocks and frills.
More arts than you can count on your two
hands go to make up that composite gift,
personal charm. One of them is appropriate
to the season. 1t is the art of giving thanks
gracefully.
Have you ever practiced II? If not,
Thanksgiving is the appointed time to be-
gin. 1t makes men adore you. old people
speak beautiful words of you and young
women envy you.
Perhaps you are going to Thanksgiving
service IL you are the kind OF girl who lives
up to the good old New England custom.
Perhaps you belong to the new-idea class
with whom foot ball has risen superior even
to the turkey dinner at midday. Perhaps
you are going for long days outing in the
frosty country. No matter where, IL is pref
ty sure that he is going, too, and II ought
to be written The" Armed with a chrysan-
themum and a purely masculine sense OF
gratitude for day away from the grinding
cares of office or shop, he will call for you
early with a bithe We'll isn't this a day
to be thankful for?"
And what reply will you have ready for
him?
If mother could not afford TO give you a
new frock for the day. or II your slender
salary forbade quite as stunning costume
as your minds eye pictured, will you say in
cold. careless fashion: well, / don't know
as have much TO be thankful for" or
Please do not spring that chestnut on me.
You know Thanksgiving day is a mere form
IN this money-making age"
Girls do say such absurd things-when
something goes wrong with their clothesi
Can't you see how you viii quench that
young mans enthusiasm and his faith in
your good temper at the same moment?
One night at a dinner some clever men
were asked why they had not married their
nrst love- One man said because she had
not spoken to him all the way to the the
alter. He had been ten minutes late and
the curtain had risen. He thought how
awful It would be to live twenty years or
less with woman who turned silent and
morose over every trife.
A girl who hates musical comedy viii not
even accept passes TO see one A dear chap
who ought to have known her tastes better
took her to see such a performance, and
she not only thanked him for pleasant
evening. but laughed many times during
the performance. The next day the chap
remembered her dislike for such things and
he also recalled her unaffected apprecia-
ton of his courtesy In entertaining her. He
forgot that she was net so very pretty, nor
so very well dressed nor so very rich-and
went up TO her house and proposed on the
spot. He knew that she would be thankful
for all the good things that came her way.
To be thankful in a graceful way, learn
to look down instead of up when figuring
on your blessings Do not look at Alice
Mays golden hair and then worry about
your own pale brown tresses. Look at
Mary AIMS freckles and be thankful for
sists of making the best Of things-and 1t
Is not set forth In any church ritual