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The Breath Of Life
By MARJORIE BOWEN (the Famous (Authoress)
every
Most of us like to be thought, lous man, will try to depreciate sincere in all our dealings and an ; what she erivies. It is a form` of Englishman, at least, prides him- consolation—“I wish I were 8.3 seif on his bluntness; but who is good looking as she is, but I am really indifferent to
for a little younger," is the uncona- of Battery?
cious thought behind the, "My Perhaps, at first, one thinks of dear. she's forty if a day," re- flattery as false, fulsome complimark. --
at- ments employed either as a -ter of custom or to obtain some selfish, end. But there are many other tar more subtle and elusive forms of flattery, and it ia dime cult to resist all of them.
Most of us meet enough rough places to be grateful to those who make them easier and who is there at one time or another who does not need a caress?
UT don't
like compliments," some say, priding themselves on their sincerity and truthfulness. "It is not by any means the vain are the most eager people who
for flattery; usually these are so Berene in their own self-esteem that they require no
ment.
A high opinion. of oneself, if skilfully managed, is a marvellous armour with which to turn the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." and flattery, to these lucky ones, is but another feather to stick in a well-garnished 'cap.
To the modest, the self-doubt ing. the spiritually timid, Battery may be the breath of life. These people need self-assurance, they want to be told that their per- sonality or their achievement is accepatble to others, worth while. That is why women and artists
particularly susceptible flattery. Do not most of them expand in an atmosphere of en- couraging praise?"
afe
to
Unfortunately, most of us would rather be flattered then flatter it is quite astonishing how much
On the whole, women are very generous to each other; they really mean it when they say the f pleasant things that sound so silly to, men. They like to each ather happy, well dressed and nice looking.
Bec
The really bitter, dangerous, lying "gossip" is as often a man as
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the vanity of dislike those who think they don't need to flatter in order to make them-
acceptable not flattery of words, but the flattery of a good appearance, lively an interested air? Is manners, the blunt, fake me or leave me". fellow, really popular?
Flattery for` Children It was said of one man that be "had the art of rendering the That commonplace interesting." was a splendid compliment to any company he was in. Do we not fatter the whole world when we make the best of ourselves?
After all, it needs modesty to take stock of yourself, hard work to remedy your defects! egoist. lazy and self-satisfed, takes no paíns with himsel
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Children are usually sensitive, very conscious of defects, pain- fully anxious to please and excel
Judicious flattery will perhaps | Cretennes. set, the nervous growing mind at Baitings, Serges and Woollen Tweeds, ease on many points when, if etc, etc.
crushed self-esteem, that:
he graceful word of warm appro- | "snubs" or "plain speaking" were bation means and how seldom it administered, the result might be is spoken. The air is "full
of that grumbling, complaints, detraction and fault-finding, destructive cri- ticism.
Why is it that the word of encouragement, of admiration, of praise and flattery that is often the very oil of the wheel of life, is so seldom spoken?
Often on principle people boast that it something is all right there is no need to say anything about it." That is not fair on the person who has been
at such pains, perhaps, to make it "all iright."
Is the idea behind this severity that praise will turn the head" and cause slackness, vanity and general indifference?
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That is not always so, surely for probably more people' are disheartened, made gloomy, and careless through lack of apprecia- tion, even, of flattery, than there
vi Are Women so “Catty”? Women have often been accused of falsely flattering one another to their faces and then being "catty" behind their backs.
Like many another, stock joke there is not really much in this; the jealous woman, like the jea
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May we take it that the person who knows nothing of the gentle art of flattery has not much chance of being either successful of happy?
The sternest of us like animals, but are not animals the supreme flatterers they take us for gōda? Is not this their greatest, attrac- tion?
To sum up a subject that goes deeper and has more aspects than one might think: Which do you value most: the small courtesies and little attentions that are go delightful to receive, but which may mean nothing, at all, or deep sincerity that is inarticulate?
It has always been asserted that women like flattery, Can **C argue from this that they care only for surface pleasantness and that a long dumb devotion is not valued by thein as much as facile, shallow compliments?
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