| Show Social S Service Vi e. e W Work orl Makes Males Appeal to Girl By BETTY BErrY BLAIR Giving doing for others sacrificing time and other things is as compelling compelling com corn a factor in development self and fineness of character as anything anything anything any any- thing to be gleaned from books books' and f the arts It is the essential quality needed to make the real person Dear Miss Bl Blair I am a girl out of college unemployed unemployed unemployed un un- un- un employed with time to kill on my hands bands I want to do something with my time my talents and my Hearts Heart's Haven energy I am interested in social service work and would like to start a project of my own but dont don't know just how to go about It This is what I have in mind I r fi would Ilk like to organize a group of girls to make layettes for mothers who cant can't afford them for their babies or something of that kind Perhaps you have some tion Awaiting your help SERVICE j oJ Social service is a big word SM SM SM S M. M Strictly speaking it is highly organized welfare work that requires requires re- re quires specialized training More recently I it has widened into various various va va- rious bureaus for dispensing wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale relief and has had to call on th the layman to carry out its broad programs But there are others interested In their own projects just as you are A layette club is already functioning functioning functioning under a constitution and bylaws by by- laws Jaws and layettes have already been dispensed through the aid of their clever fingers lingers and minds Already Functioning 1 l Another group of social-minded social college ollege girls in another state drove oo under children to the country for a days day's picnic Still another nother group of domestic science girls offered to make simple white dresses for any girls of a large junior high school whose parents found it impossible to provide suitable ble lle le dresses for the closing exercIse exer exer- cIse Another idea is to form a vacation vacationers vacationer's vaca vaca- tion tio rs r's club whose iose function is to provide ways and means for tired mothers tied to their families to take a few days' days vacation The possibilities are unlimited I hope you r really ally do something about your desire to do social work of y your ur own or of organized pattern NOTE TO DISCOURAGED Your letter was answered in Hearts Heart's Haven on April April- 4 You may get this copy of the paper through the circulation department for the small necessary payment providing you haven't saved that Issue TO CLEAN WHITE FOX t Miss Dear Blair I have a lovely whit fox scarf that is slightly Uy soiled Is there there- any way of cleaning it at home Thank you L II t The only medium possible for cleaning white fox at home is powdered powdered powdered pow pow- dered magnesia magnia Sprinkle plenty of the powder through the fur Place the fur in a container with a well- well fitting cover and set it away for a afew few days It should emerge looking fresh after a good shaking and brushing White fox should be handled handled han han- dIed with great care and if possible It should b be sent to a professional cleaner cleaner ADVICE TO WRITERS Dear Miss J Blair Whenever I read In your column olumn of someone wanting to be a writer I smile for writers are born and not made Whoever heard of another another Shakespeare Burns Rogers Rogers Rogers Rog Rog- ers or a McIntyre Everywhere we see ton on tonof ton tonof tonof of magazines and books books the the mar market ket is flooded each week and tenths nine of such is just current current current cur- cur rent reading which tomorrow is Gone with the wind for hardly anything written in these days takes takes-a a place with the dead masters masters' masters masters' masters masters' mas mas- output Also 90 per cent of things written arent aren't loday arent aren't read readjust readjust read read- 1 just clutter up the market makIng making making mak mak- ing good bonfires and accumulating ing dust in basement and attic Very seldom we find a book worthy to add to our collection Each Has Choice My sister a high school Instructor in instructor instructor in- in said sh she felt she should read rea Gone With the Wind but buthe she ahe he COULDN'T I tried Sagebrush Sagebrush Sage brush Days and nearly expired turning back lovingly to Mary Roberts Rinehart A writer is inspired Inspired Inspired-he he has a C gift from God which he uses with spontaneity spontaneity-he he does not say he wants to write write write-he he does without thought except he may know know- the subject of his endeavors Things just write themselves The proverb proverb proverb erb Many are are c called but few are chosen could apply to real writers Id I'd suggest to would-be would writers that they be students of Colonel Bournes Bourne's editorials that editorials that they follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low Driscoll the columnist read McLemore the the sports writer Ring Lardner Jr who sounds sound a abit abit abit bit like his late father L P. P B B. ICe ICe True all cant can't be as great in hi his particular lin line as those you name but ut many would be proud to have written written- anything as humanly sincere sincere sincere sin sin- cere as Sagebrush Days or anything anything any- any thing hing that could go with the lightning speed of G Gone ne With the Wind Tastes Are Judgments After all all writing is probably without without without with with- out exception an outlet a method of self And though the market is flooded who is to deny anyone the right to express himself himself himself him him- self providing he is prepared to endure the honors or the oblivion to o which his efforts may arrive or orso be so consigned A persons person's choice of reading matter matter mat mat- ter like his clothes is a judgment on him in the eyes of those who wh know mow him For myself I found so much of universal human understanding understanding understanding under under- standing in Annie Pyke Greenwoods Greenwood's Greenwoods Greenwood's Greenwoods Greenwood's Green Green- woods wood's sagebrush folk that I missed in n Mary Roberts Rineharts Rinehart's characters characters characters char char- but as our beloved M Mark rk Twain said Theres no accounting for tastes |
