How to Become Attractive.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 107, 20 June 1885, Page 5

How to Become Attractive.

A Parisian newspaper has been teaching its lady readers "how to be attractive." Surely the readers of the " Vie Parisienne " ought to be in no need of advice such as the following : — " Look confident and indifferent; express yourself simply and with a voice as sireet as possible. Be keenly alive to everything that passes, yet appear absentminded ; know as much as possible, yet please by asking questions. Having read everything, quote nothing; seen everything, appear ignorant ; heard all, always express surprise; desiring everything, ask for nothing. Be light-hearted to preserve your beauty ; be indulgent to attract sympathy » and so on, These laws — some evidently anti-blue-stocking laws — are laid down as absolute, with one exception, * 'Blush neither for shame nor for pleasure," to which is added, "if you can help it." Verily, the good old saying holds good still: "II faict souffnr pour etre belle" There are, however, some clauses which might with equal advantage bo applied to both soxes. For icstancs : "Do not force wit ; always listen attentively ; be charitable for your own satisfaction ; be frank, and you need never be afraid of the truth ; see things at a glance, judge quickly and think more qnickly still, in order to keep a cool head." But wise as these saws are, and however much the world might be benefited by a more general application of them, they belong decidedly to the category of precepts more easily preached than practised,—" Pall Mall Gazette."