| Show MEN FOND OF compliments more susceptible to flattery than women says a wr ter why inquires the searcher after wisdom does a woman prefer to Us ten to a compliment that she knows to be false rather than to a candid and beneficial criticism the anaw er Is that she doean doesn t there Is very little criticism that is beneficial it intended to be beneficial it may be candid to the point of rawness and f it is but most of the criticism in this world Is framed up with a view to provoking people the average per son is better acquainted with himself than anybody else can possibly be and he doean doesn t care to hear his short comings rehearsed tor obvious rea sons As tor the compliment that is false that also goes against the giacin no man for example married tor six months or six years would dare to suggest to his wife that she was the most bea oman in creation she would laugh a hollow laugh and suspect him immediately she would reason that he was plotting mischief loolam for a special dispensation lee way in which to deport himself in an unseemly and frivolous manner and nine times out of ten she would be right A compliment to fulfill its mission must be tinged at least slightly shaded and colored by truth all hands are susceptible to flattery of course but women do not differ in this respect from men it any th ng they are less affected by it be cause they are more accustomed to it but as a rule a man will puff up on it like a pouter pigeon and it isn t difficult to make him believe that he Is getting no more than his just des erts when anything commendatory is said about him for modesty s sake he may pretend that he Is not worthy of praise but inwardly he is tickled half to death and fearing that the current of approval may be cut off he generally angles for more of it and when he is entirely frank he has to confess that nothing interests him so much as conversation bearing on his doings and possession and past achievements and prospects and health he may be halt asleep and as glum and listless as a fowl that is molting but the moment his name ie mentioned he is all attention and he will volunteer information bearing directly on the subject until the cows come home A woman Is willing to talk about other women but a man Is not thor hughly and beatifically happy unless he Is talking about himself proal dence telegram |
