A DAY WITHOUT SCANDAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 27 September 1924, Page 18

A DAY WITHOUT SCANDAL.

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STELLA HARLEY.

The worst of scnndahvtongering is j that it comes back on you like a boom- ' era rig. Have you not noticed what 1 an uglifying effect wholesale scamlalmongering produces in it.- participants? If women only realised how much of feminine charm they lose when their eyes are narrowed and their lips set in lines of malicious criticism, they would change their tactics ! At our open-air club the other day tve made a pact that we would say only nice things about each other. Every time we wore* tempted, from force of unhappy habit. t«> .-ay soineiliimx •“catty."’ we remembered -and changed it- into a legitimate compliment. For compliments must bo true, of course, it they are to have value. Fortunnte--I'.. there are very tew women who are altogether outside the realm of tribute. 1 And numbers of them acquire grace- il j win give them half a chance! Even i the scandalmonger will re afrom j troubling if you insist that, she is a j nice woman, and quite above sivving j malicious things ! j A.- an aid to beauty, concentration on good points instead ot bad i- without parallel. After a clay of deliberate stroking instead of scratching, watch the feminine faces! How pleas- } ant a contrast arc the smiling lips and j eyes, the tranquil serenity, to the I peevish or malevolent glance that set j their seal on a feminine community at war with it sell ! Life would be so much jollier if we J made the be-t of each other instead of | the worst. The spirit of kindness will | accentuate all natural loveliness, and j b-nd its own invincible beauty to the | plainest face. ]