WHEN AND HOW

Shannon News, 8 April 1927, Page 4

WHEN AND HOW

—TO CRY ! Every woman know s (hat there ;.? a time to cry, if on Biblical authority alone. Wise' women know that it doesn't como very often, not nearly as often as comes the time for laugh- , ter. But still it does come —there is a time when a tear in tho eyo is of the greatest possible assistance. The girl who has quarrelled with her fiance—and wants to make it up. Laughter is sometimes of little use here—nor is speech. But one glistening ■ ,tear lust shining in her eyes— : that will bring him to her feet in a jiffy! The woman who has spent too much money on her clothes. If she hasn't done it too often a few tears will soften the heart of the most trying husband. All the old excuses may fail—"l had nothing to wear." "It was so frightfully cheap." But a couple of artistic sobs will probably extract an extra cheque. And the-girl-who has made a mistake at her office, and is likely to be dismissed. Can she by soma means gaze silently at her accuser while her eyes fill with unshed tears—perhaps her mistake will not matter quite so much after all!

Crying is an art which needs the utmost restraint. One should never really cry, only seem to do so. Let the eyes fill with tears by all means—but for heaven's sake, don't turn on a stick waterfall of grief. Real tears—real grief—are anything but becoming—the nose is sure to become red, and the spasm to end in sniffs.

Diplomatic grief may be intensely becoming and intriguing—but its got to be done in the right way.