WHAT MAKES WOMEN SUCCESSFUL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, Issue 17, 19 April 1895, Page 2

WHAT MAKES WOMEN SUCCESSFUL.

There is nothing that carries a woman so far towards the goal of social success as tact. She may not possess those qualities necessary for leadership, but she will have no diffi. cu'ty in securing so firm a foothold that she need have no dread of a greater power drawing upon the social bor : zon. The reason for this is, tbat in reality, tact is bub another word for goodness of heart, and innate kindness to all must be the foundation-stone that the woman of tho world builds the castles of her ambition upon. The tactful woman always eaya and does the right firing at the right time. She never wounds by those gaucheries which all unintentionally, but nevertheless jj«nfully remind us of things we had rither have forgotten, or telh us uopleisant truths that are no less bitter because we know that there is no denying them. Tact passes over every mistake, and somehow manages to convert them into sometbiug pleasant boforo the embarrassed po.rpetralor had a, chanco to raise n blush at his own awkwardness. All

graces of mind and body seem embodied in that one word, for a worran may be painfully plain, yet with this virtue she becomes radiantly lovely in the eyes of those whom her consummate art has rescued from dire strait. She may ba poor, but to those about her the richness of her nature atones for the lack of her worldly wealth. Her gowns may be dowdy, but as she dwells among us she appears to be clothed in garments of radiant light, and in would be a brave spirit indeed that cavilled at the makeup of a woman whose gracious presence and tactful spirit had spared them many a period of embarrassment. Above all virtues cultivate tact, for in it lies the secret of all others.