People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — A Pretty Compliment. [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Compliment.

To be able to compliment without seeming to flatter is a rare gift, and probably no race of people are endowed with that gift more extensively than the French. An exampl* of the Frenchman’s rare tact in matters ol this sort is nhown in that sweet little story of a man who had ventured to compliment a white-haired old lady upon her beauty. “Ah,” said she, “I fear you flatter me. You call me pretty. Why, tam an old woman, my hair is white, and see, here is a wrinkle.” “A wrinkle!” he replied. “Never, madam; that Is not a wrinkle. It ia but a smile that has drifted from its moorings.”—Harper’s Young People.