Show CHARM HARD TO ANALYZE its it presence easily felt but description will be found a thing of some difficulty over halt half 0 of our american girls work they stand behind counters bend over machines sit at desks and march militant figures in the procession of industries that seem to block the road to girlish grace and lightheartedness and freedom from care one woman woman who has worked among and written books about and found inspiration in the working girl says that charm sometimes drifts down unawares a thing ephemeral a gift of the gods to the girl who has had to work so hard bard that she ha has a had bad no time to think about her lack of beauty 1 I wish I 1 knew wherein charm lies but I 1 dont know although ive stud led it and tried to analyze it as much as most folks have I 1 suspect in books in pictures in people in places ive met many many kinds of charm but ive never been able to say just what it was that charmed me certainly it was never mere beauty nor mere intelligence nor mere cheerfulness nor mere kindliness ive seen beauty that bored and listened to cleverness that repelled and met with cheerfulness that was inane anan and with kindliness that was exasperating charm Is a gift of the gods and it cannot be wooed like fame nor won like money nor bought like titles nor developed like patience nor seized like a prize 0 war it if it comes it comes and if its thought on too much it files away and theres an end on it mothers magazine |