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Show The Very Busy Woman. I THE very busy woman sighed enviously envi-ously when the friend who had been calling upon her had gone. The friend was a womnn who paid scrupulous attention at-tention to all the little personal niceties. It was the daintiness of her grooming, the finish in every detail of her costume that had roused the envy of tho very busy woman. I "I always think that' I am going to get tilings sufficiently organized to allow time or 'finish' but I never do," the very busy one complained Inter in the day to nn aunt a woman of the old school, as dainty in all her pcrsonnl appointments as she was apt in her advice to those who sought it of her. "I simply love a well groomed look. I like ail the little personal comforts and finenesses of living. I do not menn extravagant ex-travagant luxuries, or anything that is over self-indulgent, hut just those little things and ways that add such a happy graco to living. The aunt cut her short just n little impatiently. "Begin with finish!" sho exclaimed in her axiomatic way. And that was positively posi-tively all that she said on the subject. Tho very busy woman snt up straight, looked at her aunt very intently then laughed, a happy light-hearted laugh. "I see exactly what you mean," she cried. "And to prove that I do I am go ing to manicure my nails immediately." "And you might spend a few minutes brushing your hair till it has some lustre," suggested the aunt, "and in trying to see if you can't do it becomingly." "Of course I can do it becomingly," bridled tho very busy woman. "No one would suspect the fact," retorted re-torted the aunt spicily. "If you thought it really important to do it prettily you would learn to do it so quite as quickly as you do it tho way you wear it now." "You nro perfectly right," murmured the very busy woman. "But I really should be writing that important letter." ''You'll write it in half the time if your hands and your hair look well," insisted the aunt, undaunted. "Before you do your nails go nnd black those shoes. They aro a disgrace. You try to hide them under your skirt every time that I look at them. There will be time for all these things before be-fore you have to write thnt letter. Do them with zest as duties of utmost importance im-portance (which they are), and see if they take a great deal of time." They didn't. And the difficult letter thnt had hcen a weight on the very busy woninn's mind was written quickly nnd easily for the good spirits her attention to her personal appearance had inspired. After the letter was finished the aunt said '. "No woman worthy the uamo can have a complete self-respect who docs not satisfy tho demands of her fastidious inner self. It Is u self thnt is continually telling her how sho should appear. She simply cannot can-not fly In the face of its dictates and be happy and spirit-free. "I am speaking now of the normnl woman not of women in whom the love of daintiness is so extreme as to carry them into senseless expenditure of time and money in satisfying it. I'm talking jj tLm about the women, like yourself, who from lf somo twist of conscience feel themselves tLM called upon to busy themselves with every J fl duty before the great duty to self nnd l 9LM others of looking their best and cultivat- A IH ing tho little niceties of life. ) "It is positively tonic, this self-respect- J ing care of appearance. It gives you poise, it smoothes out tho nerves. It increases y your efficiency in nny branch of work. jj "Your room ! How austere It is. How JLM dovoid of the littlo comforts thnt you 'j would want to sec in 'the room of a dear jH friend? You say thnt somo day you aro r tLM going to take time to make it cosey. Take i j tho time right away. You can if you re- W jH gard the duty to yourself seriously enough. ff; IH You need a cosey room to rest in, to think i. in, to soothe you. p "You have let yourself drift away from J social doings. Why? Simply because you jJ jH have not recognized its folly, ho stultify- : Ing to your development nnd happiness ) "How can you hnve a proper self-respect t when you treat yourself so badly?. And let mo tell you right here It is only the properly self-respecting person who is re- spected by others !" |