A FEMININE DUTY TO BE CHARMING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 15 (Supplement)

A FEMININE DUTY TO BE CHARMING

Charm is both the birthright and necessity of all women. Every girl as a child usually has the gift of potential charm. The tragedy is that so many ignore it, or fail to develop this blessing. I sincerely believe that it is a very real feminine duty to be charming. It is a vital part of being a woman, states the writer. True charm must come from within. It cannot be acquired and assumed as a veneer. It must be developed and matured, gradually and naturally. Other wise it is so patently artificial tha r it . becomes repulsive instead of appealing. I think that the greatest compliment which can be paid a woman is to tell her that she is charming. To lay of a woman merely that she is beautiful is to give her credit for something in the creation of which she had no control, and for tho possession of which she deserves no credit.

Charm is an unmistakable thing. One possesses it or one just does not. It is usually greater even than physical beauty. If a woman has charm it mat ters not •whether her features are regular or otherwise. No one no:i. <\s.

There are countless phases of charm. There is charm in the tone of the vjice, in smiles and laughter, in the wearing of clothes, in conversation, in wit, in tho ability to enjoy the living of life. I think that no one person cou’. 1 be charming in all these things. That would be an almost superhuman achievement, but Ido not belie.'U that there is anybody living who is not charming in one way or other. Beauty fades, but charm lives as long as life itself.