The Ability to Please...

The French woman, whose reputation for charm is long and lasting, has trained herself to be charming, for she feels that there is an art of living. She makes you feel that she wants to please you, even though she hold your eyes for a fraction of a second in a receiving line. To her this wish is her strength not her weakness. Her poise, her confidence, her training as a woman, have convinced her that graciousness is a matter of noblesse oblige.

This logic seems very clear, for it is well known that we all like to do and want to do the thing we do well. As a rule, the woman who has the power and the ability to please is the one who wants to please and enjoys doing so. After all, isn't that what women were made for? It is our place to blend and smooth, to refresh, to amuse, to rest, to inspire - else the world would go sadly awry, not only for others, but for ourselves."

-Charm-
Margery Wilson