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Show DEINQ COMPANIONABLE. II Is OraMful Art, bat raw loin to I'D,,,,, If. A secret well worth finding out, but ono which comparatively few have succeeded In discovering. Is tho act of being companionable. A writer In the Woman's Homo Companion thinks some people aro born with tho happy knack. Thero Is a spontaneous gayety that you expect women to have, Just as you expect tho birds to sing and tho sun to sblno Many a very bad quar-tor quar-tor of an hour has been averted In the domestic circle by n bright laugh or a gay rejoinder. The laugh may bo saucy and the rejoinder a bit of verbal ver-bal buffet, but If It Is only dono good naturcdly It will be all the moro effective. ef-fective. It used basely to be said of men that tho only way to make them happy was to feed them well. That could only have applied to a small minority. mi-nority. Of courso no one wants an uninterrupted un-interrupted round of even tho most brilliant smiles any moro than he would wish to mako threo meals a day off meringues and biscuits glaces, but It Is safo to say that countless numbers of willing and delighted masculine mas-culine captives msy be led by the lightest chains that gayety and good humor can forgo One result of a great deal of tho Imperfcst education that Is dealt out by the handful nowadays Is that somo women are apt to sot undue valuo on moro book-learning and the gift of controversy, This kind of a person looks upon your little Joke as beneath her dignity, and she treats you to a sombre harangue on the necessity ne-cessity of having serious views of life at tho moment when you are striving to look at things cheerfully In an ef-fort ef-fort to forgot cares and anxletlos. It Is a woman's privilege to lighten the shadows and be all that Is gracious and bright on tho ornamental aide of life. It Is a good plan to let much learning alt as lightly as possible, and to get Into tho habit of making little troubles pass tike little ripples In a sunny river |