TRUE CULTURE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 7 February 1907, Page 37

TRUE CULTURE.

To be gracious without being patronising on-- the one hand or too gushing on the other, all this inquires cultivation and is not attained in a- day.That illusive attribute known as charm is still more difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Is it not inborn and not to be acquired, striving .ever so hard ? Certain it is that this charm is the most to be desired of all the good gifts the fairy god-mothers have to bestow. Beauty may fade and riches may fly away and health and youth be swallowed up -by the years as they pass, but that charm will ever remain;- more, potent, more soul satisfying, than beauty and riches and even youth itself. How often does not one see this exemplified in society by the popularity of some woman who apparently possesses little or nothing to justify such success, and who nevertheless- is courted and- admired and of whom everyone saysp # Isn't she charmvng ? ' You agree that she is, and wonder why. Other women you know, better looking, younger, better dressed perhaps— though the really charming woman is never badly dressed' — and yet they lack just something which attracts you in the other woman. What is it ? You ask yourself, and you come to the conclusion it is something which, for want of a' better name, you call * charm. 1