The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-05
AN rNIaMA oNLY rO nm.

II t < N1 AN ENIGMA ONLY ID HIM. Whenever . man fails to unaess.ana a,s..sna l q woman and her ways he attributes | the failure to the intricacies or ner character. rather than to the density of l his own understanding.
 It Is only to man that woman Is an | enigma !. To her. own sex she Ia as open and transparent as the day.
 | She can pull the wool over q mans eyes a thousaAd times, but she can't fool woman once.
 However. she is perfectly safe--the l other woman will never give her away for the simple reason that she is also busy pulling the wool over some mans eyes and has no timefto bother about her neighbours concerns But should they both be interested in the same mat. look out for squalls.
 The man will receive an insight into woman's ways that will give him the surprise of his life.
 It is mans vanity that makes him Like to be won by finesse. He does not care to think or him- self as falling a too willing vict'm to woman's wiles
 He would prefer to be won by strategy. And so he is won by strat. exy of a sort, but 1t Is strategy that eyAryone but himself sees through.
 m Man and Superman." Bernard shaw's book. Ann says there is oniy one way to get what you want. ana that is to "go straight Tor It ana grab 1t"
 And that is really what woman does t--she never for one moment loses sight Il of the end in view. She may make l wide detours. but she always has some I excellent reason for doing so. Woman,s munitions are keener than mans because 1t Is through her intui-' tions that she has had to win her way | in the world.
 She had not mans physical strength. and 50 she had to fight with the strong est weapon at her command.
 Hundreds of years have developed the weapon to rapierlike keenness.
 To hide it's strength she has sheathed lit In wentleness and diplomacy. .. She strikes home. but does 1t so deft- | ly and gently that the victim does not realize he is struck,
 Sometimes the cause of the victory lies not so much in the deftness or | the stroke as in the density of the vic- tim. ,,, l at conclusion. that man can oniy arrive at after laborious thought.
 If is simply that mans brain goes round the block while woman's cuts
 And though that "rebel woman's l wilIful heart'' may not acknowledge man in general as her master, there IS always one man in particular "no holds the keys to the fortress. l IF he is not keen enough to claim his own. woman's wit must come TO the rescue and pierce the density or his perceptions.--Picayune
 | USING TO-DAY.
 For some people today never exists. Il It is always yesterday or tomoTrow' If they are not dwelling ,,,,r on ,ne past
 Tt makes little difference whether inc thought of yesterday brings JOY or regret. or the expectation Of tomor- row hone or dread: it Is almost as oad to dawdle among past joys as 70 mourn over past errors. and as futiie 10 wasee time over castles tha. may ns o nsyar materiafize. The main error IS in letting today slip by unused. us IT.
 reyocable hours lost in Idle memory } or anticipation. ..h,rr untiI we learn to subordinate potn yesterday and tomorrow 10 tooay. [ js today and today only that we i've, Yesterday Is forever gone. may never come.
 0nIv today counts. And they alone ora wise who live as if this was the oniv law. forgetting for the time all the days that ever were. ana all eha' shall ever De.
 II A LITTLE KINDNESS. II .orso ax,enine before started on my v, .a tfon ," says a school teacher. writ inc in The New York Tribune went to the.seamstress who mad been dotng some work for me. l was cross anu " nnt sent my things to me. and even when I found that she was up to her | syes in work that had to be finisned hefore morning. I was groucny s.nI
 :. You will have to send my things | after me- said. as soon as couiu speak for disappointment. ana s,se sase h her my address in the New nahipshifo town where was going.
 "tIer face lit up. Are you going
 .o EdeewaterT she said. I was born in that very town, and livea tnere till I grew up! - "Then she described her oid nome, and told me where 1t was and Just now ts ,st to if. listened politely enough. l then forgot all about it. But one day ' was cut taking pictures. and some thing moved me toltry for some views of the old house the seamstress nad toio me about.
 "When got home finished and , mounted two on a cara, oue sioWt"5 the beautifully arched old-fashioned front door and yard. the other the win dow of the room in which--from her description--she had been born. Then I wrote Hoods lines on the card: 'T remember. I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun II Came peeping in at morn.
 Her face was study when gave her the little souvenir of her old nome I haven't seen it for eighteen years! she said, with tears in her eyes.
 T wish deserved the look of grati- II tude she gave me then. Those two | snapshots meant more to her than the whole vacation did to ne."-Philadel- phia Record.
 SENATOR HOAR's FAvORTTE
 AUTHOR. The late Senator Hoar, rather against his will. once found himself at sort of literary reception. says The Boston Mapahars nf reading Cfuha