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Show BE FRANK AT ALL TIMES Never Indulge In Hypocritical Remarks Or Actions Just to Please Others BY LUCILLE DAUDET. f"jrj T Is strange u hen you stop to Kj K consider it what a small lino l2sJ of difference there often is between be-tween a virtue and a vice Just where the one stops and the other begins be-gins is often extremely difficult to tell. For Instance, the one trait most despised de-spised by all mankind is hypocrisy. A most admired tialt. on the contrary, is tact Yet often one may be tactful to the verge of hypocrisy, and vhlle somo may call it tho one thing, others may call it the other. Who really knows Just where tho division lino comes? Hypocrisy has a great many synonymsinsincerity, syn-onymsinsincerity, duplicity, double-dealing, pretence cant, Pharisaism all come under the same head. The desire to be tactful may at times lead us to the verge of hypocrisy, but so long as we are sincere we do not cross the border Do not allow yourselves to become hypocrites, for you will be disliked and distrusted by men and women al.'ke. Do not think that you can hide your real feelings forever, for a look In the eyes, an expression of the mouth, may betray you at any moment. If you dislike a girl do not protend friendship friend-ship and liking, while all tho time encouraging the animosity in your mind. On the contrary, you should set yourself to work to overcome your dislike for tho other. In the meantime, mean-time, until you feel that you have conquered your animosity, keep away from tho girl. Be sincere In what you say of others oth-ers If you cannot think nice things about them, do not say anything at all. You should never run down others in your speech, so if you cannot praise be silent If you are forced to utter an opinion about a person you dislike, pick out the one point you find to admire ad-mire In that person and mention that Unfortunately, it is all too seldom that the real hypocrite recognizes herself her-self In her true nature. She usually garbs herself in a cloak of self-righteousness, covering her inward blf with a mask of dissimulation. Her "I-am-better-than-thou" attitude succeeds suc-ceeds In deceiving most of tho world, including licrself as well. This phari-Balsm phari-Balsm la one of the commonest characteristics charac-teristics of the hypocrite. It Is better to be blunt and outspoken out-spoken than to bo hypocritical. Tho hypocrite may make more friends, but the frank person knows her friends are true. You want your friends to like you for what you are not for what you are not, but pretend to be. The hypocrito parades her pretended- virtues before the world. Sclf-ad- A vertisement as a model of kindness and nobility is her pet labor. Her plausibility Is her best stock In trade. You have only to talk to her five minutes min-utes to know that she has two Bible classes and is the most charitable member of her church. According to her, she is constantly doing good. She will toll you In one breath that she has only love In her heart for the whole vorld and in the next that Mrs. Brown Is no doubt a respectable woman, but that she shouldn't be so Indiscreet Tho av. ful part about the hypocrite is that she can do more harm to a girl's character in one minute than a frank person can do in a year. The outspoken girl will talk to you against a person and you will know right away that she is talking of some one she greatly dislikes. You can tell, consequently, con-sequently, that her opinion of the person per-son in question is prejudiced by ber dislikes and Is to be valued accoidlng- ly. But the hypocrite speaks very highly high-ly of the person she wants to slander. Then she Inserts a but and a slight Innuendo. In-nuendo. Every insinuation is preceded preced-ed by a flattering comment. Tho impression im-pression you receive at once Is that this criticism must be quite unprejudiced, unpreju-diced, ub the talker said so many nice things, too. Every harmful Innuendo Is doubled in Importance because you think that if a woman who is such a friend can say such things they must be true. Girls, avoid hypocrites and hypocrisy. hypoc-risy. There Is nothing so dispicablo as tho one and no one so contemptible as the other. r BLOUSES 0 NUMBER of specially pretty blouses were seen last week. Lemon and palest roses aio favorite harmonies, and look very attractive beneath brown fur, and there aro some striking checkered check-ered patterns, Bhowing in solid and pale tints two tones of velvet, blue or the new mulberry shades. To designs so striking no jabot is givon, but there are open-work seams of thefincBtand narrowest lace to tako their place, or Inset "headings." Those who feel the winter cold severely, se-verely, even in the house, will find , thin silk blouse preferably to one or the thinner materials, or a heavy make of ciepe de Chine would prove very comfortable. Lingerie waiBts always hare been, are this season, and probably always will bo most popular and in the very best taste. Satins and silks maycomo and go, brilliant toned taffeta may be popular and then forgotten, but lingerie lin-gerie waists stay on forever. The lingerie lin-gerie blouse, with Its deceptive air of inexpensive simplicity, .remains over dear in tho public heart Rendered costly by high priced. |