WHY SOME WOMEN ARE INTERESTING

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 16, 22 April 1909, Page 637

WHY SOME WOMEN ARE INTERESTING

Watch next time you attend some entertainment when the guests gather in groups. It is not tlie greaest' talker or the loudest who is the object of attention. Yonder in one corner will be a group of young people who, with occasional outbursts of laughter and a murmur of general conversation, are doing .what? Gathered about the smallest, most insignificant girl of the -lot, who, in' a soft, droll voice, is relating some tale or a bit of gossip. Then again a _ group •of . women . are listening' to a dignified matron. Every now : and then an ' important little woman with a loud fast utterance attempts an interruption, but is invariably silenced by a ' Wait; let us hear what Mrs. X. is saying.' And so it is. Watch growing children.; _dp not let them shout » and scream at 'each other ; do not allow them all to talk at once, each one thinking by dint of noise to drown what the others are saying, and, above all, do not let them pour out their word's at railroad speed. As for older- women, let tliem remember that sentence of Holmes: 'She may not have youth or beauty/ or even manners, hut she must have something in her. voice or expression, which makes you feel better disposed toward your race to look at or listen to.' -