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Show The Compani nable Girl. A companionable gir is one who is good company. com-pany. But what makes 1. ?r so ? After goodness of he.- rt and true uprightness of character, which always :ome first, she must be an agreeable girl. It is pof -dble for disagreeable people peo-ple to be really good c nd conscientious at heart while having unpleasant ways, but it is a thousand pities not to be pleasan besides. "Why' can't all good people be nice?" luestioned a vexed young person after coming in -ontact with one who was really good but not grai lous. To be agreeable meai to be ready to agree, to be of the same mind. Yet, if all people thought 1 ... r Mx. exactly the same thing, it would be excessively stupid. stu-pid. To agree has the better meaning of to harmonize, har-monize, and you know that two colors, quite different differ-ent from each other, may go very well together. They harmonize. The companionable girl is social. If she is glum and grumpy, she is a poor companion. She likes to tell her own experience, but she does not make it a point to keep at it continually, and never let her neighbor have a chance to tell hers. A good talker should be a good listener, and then she will command listeners the better herself. The companionable girl is sympathetic and has tact. If her friend is in trouble or perplexity, she does not rattle away in a lively fashion about everything under the sun for which the other does not care, but adapts herself to her companion's mood. i- . |