Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-27

next to her that the usher had almost
stepped on her skirt.
When we were home In that glorious
half hour when ones opera cloak hangs
loosely on the back of the chair, and
the time for talking il over was on.
| stretched my feet to the blue flame in
the gas CRATE and told them. iuy host and
hostess, how | had enjoyed it, The loose
little mortal viewed herself eomplacently
in the mirror and said Yes, l told
Jack we would take you to see things
like this because we knew you could not
afford them at home"
Then all the beauty was turned into
ashes; the glow of the electric lights on
the mahogany furniture and Bagdad
rugs became n sickly yellow: great
hurting throb swelled up in my heart and
j wished | had never seen Fafnum.
In the first string that follows an of
Tense like that, one is apt to exaggerate
the matter. / believe that as | unclapsed
mothers old locket from my neck that |
said to the pearls THAT was mean,
mean" When l kicked off the last slip
per | had concluded it was very unkind,
but L went to sleep with a knowledge
that lack of tact had undone all that
kindly Intention and generosity had done.
and | awoke with a determination 10 cul-
tive assiduously the graceful little flower
called tact" that makes the highways
of life so beautiful.
1t will grow, find, much like the gold
en- rod that turns our proSy country lanes
into avenues OF beauty, only let it get
start, but If by any chance it does not
grow in ones nature, not being indigo
nous, it is worth all the effort to cult
vate it.
Do you remember that in the Fools
Prayer he says:
There hard, we'll meaning hands we thrust
Among the heartstrlngs of a friend?
The illumed truth we might have kent.
Who knows how sharp t pierced and
The word we had not sense to say.
Who knows how grandly 1t had rung?
mat is the way to do il, exactly The
tactiess person is nearly always Il well
meaning one and goes so unconsciouSy
and serenely about hurting his friends
that one cannot find an excuse for de-
fenslve stroke and must 20 ON bearing
the sting quietly. | think that the man
who said, Deliver me from my friends
/ can whip my enemies must have had
lot of the ''well-meaning" ones
There are changes in the style of peo-
pie as well as in apparel, and | believe
that III few years the tactleSs woman
VIII be as obsolete as n hoop skirt. She
Is not the rage now People are not look
ing Tor her to make one of house party
or lead a german, and neither YOU nor |
want one to adoru our front veranda
this summer.
There was a sweet American woman.
Il dozen years ago. who occupied posi-
ton in the full lime light. not only of
America, but of all the world and the
graciousness with which she accom-
pliShed the duties and wore the honor
was wonderful. You know when any
body has done something wonderful the
world begins to take notice and wants to
know how ii was done. TO such an in
quiry thus woman modestly replied, II
made up my mind in the beginning to
forget myself" That was tact Ii is
the perpetual thought of self that stands
between us and SO many things. The
woman who wants to be loved and to
live IN the soft atmosphere of popularity
must continually eliminate the ungra-
Cious things from her creed and begin n
system of addition. She must add to her
wOmanlinesS, love and to love. good cheer
and to good cheer, tact, and the greatest
of these is tact.
A little tact will save many hurt
and heal many Il wound.
little tact will sometimes start q
song in a heavy heart l have heard the
song. Common sense and stoical pride
covered over the hurt that the loose little
mortal inflicted. but there was the heayi-
ness that must be borne alone, and il
went into me on a long, hard trip. BUT
the merry-hearted man and his gentle
wife went also. They went because it
pleased me to go, and l could not go
alone l tried TO thank them and the
merry-hearted man looked nearer severe
than | ever saw him when he said:
But don't you think we have right to
do few little things for you, and YOU
have no idea how we enjoy it,"
Then something thrilled among the
chords of my heart and I'll vow they
played Il happy little tune.
1t is my impression that just as
around a house we find it helpful to have
some unimportant looking tool that
comes in handy on many occasions, so
we will find that a little tact will come
to answer like purpose in the build
ing and keeping of character.
1t is my impression that while some
of us gaze in the shop windows aud long
for the ornaments we can not afford
to buy, we will be wise if we remember
that there are always in reach of MS the
little adOrnments of disposition which
may even be had for the wanting. And
it is my impression that none set more
becomingly upon a lovely woman than
tact.-Ada May Cromwell in Womau's
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