Only a pawdle—but never mind,
For she’ll die in due season, when
Her proper place she will really find—
Not even a pawdle, then!
Per´so-tude, n. Social warmth, personal magnetism, charm.
Per´so-mag, n. The unit of social favor.
A man charged to the highest voltage of persotude could borrow any amount of money. The charge fluctuates in the same person. After a good dinner, one vibrates sometimes up to 7,000 persomags. Cocktails, compliments and social success make one buzz with persotude. (See Gubble.)
Anyone troubled with negative persotude should take a rest cure and test his recovery by trying to sell life insurance, which requires the greatest sparking charge. (See Spuzz.)
Persotude is independent of beauty, though it is hard to make a woman believe it. Getting rich adds to one’s persotude,—but not always. Rockefeller’s persotude is less than 6-1/2 persomags. (See Yowf.)
Nicknames are prime evidence of rich persotude.
The highest persomags in America are Roosevelt, Christie Matthewson and Maude Adams.
When Walter, at his Sunday School
Declaimed “The Old Front Gate,”
They flattered so the little fool
His persotude was great.
He went upon the stage and planned
To be a tragic hero,
He never even got a “hand”—
His persotude was zero.