MANNER FROM THE INSIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

MANNER FROM THE INSIDE.

Some womea devote their time and attention to cultivating a manner 01 an air of knowledge which they do net possess, taking, for their model some one whoft manner they admire. If these women could only realise that they can only have the same charm of manner as their model if tho manner is real and naturally their own! The ability to appreciate that which is truly beautiful would accomplish by natural methods that which they strive so hard to improve by whalt at best must be called a very artificial means. It is true that charm of manner is very lacking in many of our women, and many times the most beautiful women are the worst offenders. The cure, however, must be a very genuine appreciation of Mat which is refined and cultured and not merely the admiration of the outward man ner. In other words, study the cause rather than the effedt and the effect will appear without effort. We have all met the most charming girls who after all failed, as we frequently say to wear well. In nine! cases out of ter we have been at a loss to define the reason. It is well to remember just here that some of the very homeliest women in history have successfully held thei' own with' women who were truly beaut : - ful. Beauty faT too often presumes on its merit. and fails to make use of its brains. For brain laziness is an ever in creasing disease and is much more insidious than that of the body. Much is said against the education which is merely a smattering, and sak' indeed with truth, but it may be that f smattering is better than none at all. In Eneland, alt least, very few people, study either art. music or literature withou' serious intent to accomplish a definite end, but it really would injure no one to tl ady any or all of these arts long enough to obtain some real knowledge of the subalways remembering that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. At any rale, it should give the younr women a peg to hang her'manner on if she has any serious intent to really be that which she surely wishes her manner to suecest. Cultivate the habit of observation and discrimination and a new field of interest is immediate'v opened before one. Study for yourself the reason why a book, a picture or a piece of furniture is beautiful or interest)mi. and do not be content with the fact that' "everybody is reading it" or "all the shops are selling it," and never cease to study.