THREE DON'TS FOR WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 4

THREE DON'TS FOR WOMEN.

,l)on'l he too confidential, not even with your best friends. Telling all your thoughts, your joys, your sorrows is never the part of wisdom. Sooner or Inter you are sure to regret your volubility and have the unpleasant feeding that you have in a eertain way compromised' yourself liy thus' making your very soul an open 'book. Instead" always preserve a portion of self for self; then you have a stronghold into whieh you van withdraw at will, and with the comforting assurance, too. that you. and you only, posse.* the latchkey. DON'T (IVfill. There is no I rait in a woman more objectionable to the sensible than gushing. At little flattery now and then is' most certainly relished by all of us, and tickles our vanity immensely. To be effective, it must be administered in small doses and at well-selected moments. Again, the woman who gushes not onlv sacrifices the respect of others, but self-respect, too; for in time hlic conic.-' Ifi live up to the reputation she has gained for herself, of 'being insincere. DOX'T MEDDLE. This injunction deserves to be written in glowing letters and blazoned from the hoii-c-tops. I"or in every community is found a meddling female who is responsible for two-thirds of t,he mismidevslamlings I hat make life so burdensome.

The broken friendships that no amount of bridging-over can entirely cement again, and the domestic tragedies that bring so much misery and remorse in their wake, are her doing. And. after all. what is the reward of the meddler! Satisfaction, peruana, for n season, but it is short-lived. Sooner or late,- the price of her interference is exacted, n id she becomes the target for both of the injured parties, and wakens, too bile, to t.he tantalising realisation that in Irving to gain the confidence of one she has wou'for herself the contempt of both.