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Show CHARM HARD -TO ANALYZE H fSBBBsl Its' Pretence Easily Felt, but Deecrlp- iM 'tlo'n Will Be Found a Thing jH of Some Difficulty. iH Over half of our American girls M work. They stand behind counters, 'H bend over machines, sit nt deskB. nnd H march, militant figures. In the pioces- H slon of Industries that seem to block H the road to girlish grace and light- H henrtcdnens and freedom from care. , H One woman who has worked among M and written books about and found ' M Inspiration 'In "the working girl says H that charm sometimes drifts idown, , M unawares, a thing ephemeral, . a, gift, M of the gods to the girl who has hsdio H work so hard that she has had no H tlmo to think about her lack of H beauty. '-t "1 wleh I knew wherein charm lies; ' but I don't know, although I've stud- M led It and tried o analyze It as much jH as most folks Itnve, I suspect. In ! books, In pictures, In people. In places, lM I've mot many, many kinds of charm; jH but I've never been able to say Just iH whut It was that charmed me. Cer- 'H talnly It was uover mere beauty, nor jt mere Intelligence, nor mere cheerful- H ness, nor mere kindliness, I've seen M beauty that bored, and listened to H cleverness that repelled, and met with H cheerfulness that was Inane and with H kindliness that wns exasperating. H Chnrm Is a rift of the gods, nnd It 'M cannot be wooed like fame, nor won ,H like money, nor bought like title, nor 'H developed like pntlence, nor seized H llko a prize o' war If It comes, It M comes: and If It's thought on too 'Issssfl much. It files awny And there's an B end on It"-Mother's Mngazlne. H |