hilistine
remark that it is about the same size as the dining-room of the
Auditorium Hotel in Chicago!

* * * * *

Of course, this difference of tastes sometimes helps to smooth out
difficulties. If the chicken is small, and one partner likes white meat
while the other prefers black, it comes in handy.

* * * * *

All psychologists, ancient and modern, agree on one point on the
subject of woman, and that is that vanity is her typical failing. You
never need fear referring to her beauty. She is always open to a bit of
flattery. You may go straight to the heart of the best woman by
praising her bonnet or her baby.

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Give me a tactful woman (she is a delight), but spare me the diplomatic
one. 'A diplomatic woman' sounds to my ears very much like 'a woman too
clever by half.' I almost prefer the dear little goose who puts her
foot in it every time she opens her mouth.

No doubt the diplomatic woman is a very useful mate to the man who
occupies a high official position; but in everyday life, in married
life especially, the only diplomacy that a woman should concern herself
about is the politics of matrimony. Under all other circumstances the
diplomatic woman is only an insincere woman with a high-sounding name.

The more I think of it, the more I feel deeply convinced that, in the
ordinary pursuits of life, whether a man or a woman be in question,
good diplomacy does not consist in cleverly deceiving people, but in
finding out who your real friends are, and, when that is ascertained,
in sticking to them and for them through thick and thin.

* * * * *

When a husband allows himself to be ruled by his wife, the latter
generally profits by it to become assertive and offensively
overpowering. Woman was not meant to rule, and when she is permitted to
enjoy that privilege, she too often enjoys it _en parvenue_, loudly and
indiscreetly. Like Queen Victoria, woman should reign, but not rule.

* * * * *

With the tact and common-sense which are the salient and most
characteristic features of French women, I regret that France is not
under a constitutional monarchy, and that the French throne is not
occupied by a Frenchwoman. The two most successful reigns recorded in
English history are the reigns of Queen El