Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — Sensible Advice. [ARTICLE]

Sensible Advice.

Somebody, giving good advice in the Parisian to young men who go into society, says: “Never wound an ugly woman, and, above all, if an ugly woman comes and says to “you with a side glance, ‘ I know that lam not pretty,’ do not fall into the trap and reply: * True, madam; but you have moral qualities and domestic virtues which I place above the perishable advantages of beauty.’ I was 18 years of age when I made this answer, worthy of Telemachus, to the wife of a banker whose protection I was seeking. The neit day the lady said to her husband: ‘ 1 hope that the young scamp you presented to me yesterday Is net going to be a frequent visitor here,’ ”