THE RESTFUL WOMAN.

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIV, 5 June 1911, Page 1

THE RESTFUL WOMAN.

Everyone knows what a pleasure it is to meet the perfectly serene woman, who carries with her wherever she goes a restful atmosphere for her friends. It may be interesting to try to discover how this charm beyond charms is cultivated. Such a woman has a line sense of the true proportion of things. Hence she does not exhaust herself on trifles. Tae temporary loss of her thimble docs not deprive her, instantaneously and completely, of her serenity of mind.

She is mistress of herself, Not that she is lacking in intensity of feeling, but her common sense loads her to withhold the expression of such feeling until the suitable occasion arrives. There is no need to kindle a mighty furnace to boil a cup of water; a gas jet will suffice.

She never wastes her time and strength in useless regrets. However disastrous and unfortunate the occurrence may be, since it cannot bo undone she expels it from her thoughts altogether. Some

people expend a vast amount of breath in deploring past events, which no amount of talking can undo. It means a sad Joss of vital force. The sensible woman reserves her vital force for present or future exigencies. Again she does not expect impossibilities of herself, or anyone else. She is content to look “one stop onward and secure that stop.”' Siie knows perfection is not, to say the least, as common as blackberries in this world; in fact, as a certain witty, tilled man, now deceased, used to say, the only perfect thing' he knew was a perfect fool. But perhaps it is as regards the use of her tongue that this woman shows her sense most conspicuously. She will not always say all she knows, but she always knows all she says.