FOR OUR GIRL READERS

New Zealand Tablet, 26 July 1906, Page 37

FOR OUR GIRL READERS

Here are a few words of advice for our girls :—: — To be attractive a girl must cultivate repose of countenance and manner ; appear bright and interested in what other people aw saying ; avoid making unkind remarks about persons who are absent ; avoid loud talking, especially in public places ; never use slang, and.*- dress in accordance with her means. And, above all, cultivate a s;jii*t of contentment. This will enable her to look o n the bright side of things and will make her li^ht hearted and attractive. There was a dispute among three ladies as to which had the most beautiful hands. One sat by a stream and dipped her hand into the water and held it up ; another plucked strawberries until the end of her fingers' were pink, and another gathered violets until her hands were fragrant. An old, haggard 1 woman, passing by, asked : 'Who will eive me a gift, for I am poor ?' All three denied her, but another who sat near, unwashed in the stream, unstained with fruit, unadorned with Cowers, gave her a little gift, and satisfied the poor woman, and then she asked them what was the dispute, and th^y tola her and lifted up before her their beautiful hands. ' Beautiful, indeed,' said she, when she saw them ; but when they asked her which was the most beautiful she said : ' It it not the hand which is washed clean in the brook ; it is not the hand which is tipped with red ; it is not the hand that is garlanded with fragrant flowers, but the hand which gi\es to the poor that is 1 the most beautiful.' As she said these words her wrinkles fled, her staff was thrown away, and she stood before them an angel from heaven, with authority to decide the question in dispute, and that decision has stood the test of all time.