HE AND SHE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 11

HE AND SHE.

LADT BBACONSFIELD'S SAVING . GRACES. . The difficult art of being a gmt man's wife was unmistakably carried to a high pitch of perfection by Lady Beaconsfield. That a marriage between a brilliant but ponniloss young politician and a rich widow, ranch his older, should have turried out one of tho most notably happy marriages in history, could not bo the result of accident alone. There mus'; have been on both sides a careful procfas of adjustment and concession, with .he greater sacrifices undoubtedly On tho woman's sido. Of tho qualities noceaary to success in this difficult art, good humour and hMmour are among thu most valuable. Both of these characteristics Lady Beaconsficld claims for herwlf in a serious little analytic table she drew up of her own characteristics end her husband's, which is given in Monypen-iy s "Life of "Disraeli":— HE IB; BHTI 16: Very calm. Very effflTea'mt. Manners grave and Gay and happyalmost sad. looking when Never Irritable. .- Bpea-'ting. Bad-humoured. Very lrritlble. Warm in lovo, but Good-'ium .urod. cold in, friendship. Cold in love, but Very patient. wavm in friendship. Very studious. No patience. Very generous. Very tf.le. Often says what he Only generous to does not think. Vioso she loves. It is impossible to Never- says anyflnd out what ho thing she , does likes or • dislikes not think. from hia manner. Ber manner is quite Ho docs not show different, ond to his feelings. those she likes she. No vanity, shows her feelings. Conceited. Much vanity. No self-love. 'No conceit. ■ ■ '■ . He is seldom amused. Much selMovo. He is a genius. Everything amuses Ho is to be depended her. . on to a certain de- She is a donee. gree. ' . Sho is not to, bo deHis whole soul is de- pendod on. voted to politics Shi has no amot- ' and ambition.' tion and hates

' politics. The mere authorship of such a frank bit of self-analysis argues the possession of a robust senso ot humour.—New York "Post."