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Show THE TACTFUL WOMAN. How She Makes Friends. Tact is that nice perception which enables us to grasp the situation and to do and say exactly the right thins at the right moment. In reviewing our acquaintances we perceive that it is the tactful woman that outdistances her neighbors. In social life the tactful woman is the favorite, knowing, as she does, how to skate upon the thin ice of Vanity Fair. She triumphantly skims over all difficult dif-ficult places, leaving behind her the impression that she is a charming woman, wo-man, and frequently gaining credit for qualities she never possessed. In everyday walks of life tact is the lubricating fluid which causes the social so-cial machinery to run smoothly, and rentiers pleasant that which otherwise would be unbearable. We can all remember re-member pome critical hour when, we owed a debt, of everlasting gratitude to the tactful bearing of someone else. Ask the longsuffering hostess of whom among all her guests she reserves re-serves the pleasmntest memories, and her choice is certain to fall upon the person of tact. She gratefully recalls how her ready wit prevented friction and poured the oil of diplomacy on the troubled waters, thus contributing in no small measure to the success of her gatherings. The tactful woman, abides in her memory long after the lions and geniuses are forgotten. The woman of tact journeys through life making few enemies and winning the confidence of all who thoroughly know her. She gains her own way more readily than others, simply because be-cause she knows the wisdom of biding in pilence with her eye ever watchful for the turn of the tide. ' She has proven the truth of the old proverb that "persuasion often suc-.ceeds suc-.ceeds where force fails." and consequently conse-quently avoids the mistakes of her sisters, sis-ters, and lead?, where she appears to follow, gaining time by her seeming inactivity; because, having made the best of her powers of observation, she has no lost ground to cover. |
