Benefit of Quietness.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume 1, Issue 53, 27 May 1892, Page 7

Benefit of Quietness.

_ Young people are apt to fancy that quiet girls are necessarily stupid ones; they see no evidence of brillianoy, and form a wrong estimate of the character of that demure maiden whose only ambition in life seems to be to sit in silence and listen while others talk. For nobody seems to feel it a duty to draw her out; nobody believes there is anything to draw out. If, however, she is not satisfied with her fortunes, nobody hears anything about it, and consequently everybody believes, if they give her a thought, that she is perfectly resigned to the commonplaoe, and that she could not appreciate anything better. Byand.bye, when the quiet girl writes a successful novel novel or paints a successful picture, we wonder how she gained her knowledge. “ She never knew a hundred people in her life,” we say. Yet, all the same, she has had leisure to reflect upon all she has seen. She has not been so oconpied in amusing herself, [in advertising her good points, in making the most of herself, but that she could observe others, and use all the material in her own work. In the meanwhile it is the quiet girl who marries earliest, who makes the best match, who fills the niches which her more brilliant sisters leave vacant, who manages the servants, runs the sewingmachine, remembers the birthdays, listens to the reminiscences of the old, and often keeps the wolf from the door.

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