| Show FAILURES AT SCHOOL BLAMED ON GIRL 1 Dy By y BETTY BLAIR If those who blame others for their failures would take a close per per- personal personal personal up check-up they would invariably find ind that the theS the'S fault lay in n themselves in in their attitude toward towar l their work and their failure to rate their assets and liabilities at the their r proper values Dear Miss Blair I need your help Im I'm terribly low Sometimes I wonder if anything anything anything any any- thing is worth while It seems that everything I do is a failure Dad and mother are getting disgusted disgusted disgusted dis dis- dis- dis gusted with me Ive I've really tried to g graduate from high school and Hearts Heart's Haven now Im I'm not going to be able to get through Dad and Mom Jom just lust wont won't believe believe believe be be- lieve Ive I've tried They say all I I think about is going some place and having a good time They dont don't seem to realize I wouldn't be able to stu study y at all if I c couldn't have a good time some of the time They think I should stay home and study all the time Now Ill I'll have t to go back back to to high scho school l again a and L my y friends best b will wIlI be going fo to tho the university It'll be terrible Id I'd rather not go goto goto goto to school any more at all Please tell me what you think I should do UNHAPPY I think think- you should sit down calmly serenely in your own room with pencil and arid paper in m hand and have a thorough up check-up on your your- self If you were a storekeeper you would take inventory of your whole stock in trade once a year You would know which was wa-s the best selling selling selling sell sell- ing merchandise and which the poorest You would know better than to order the poorest again anc and you'd probably order a larger stock of the merchandise that had the biggest sales and that increased your rating as a first-class first mer men chant Take Inventory If everybody would take personal inventory of himself at least once a year get rid of the mental and personal personal personal per per- debris charge it to loss and then forget all aU about it put something something some some- thing better in m its place he would add reams to the volume of his his' own personality and so to his power to turn out a good record of himself Take the up check-up find out where you made the mistakes th that t prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented your being graduated with your class Go back to school by byall byall all means and profit by your losses You'll mal make e other nice friends at al school but be sure you dont don't let them interfere with your march to your goal Its It's a very dull and uninteresting person who lets himself continue to toba tobe tobe be ba unhappy over his own or other peoples people's acts Learn to put unpleasantness unpleasantness unpleasantness behind you and to create pleasant situations where there are none That Thatis is is the first sign signpost 1 post ost toward success in your life PULLMAN PULL TRIP Dear Miss Blair I As soon as school is out I am going to have my first overnight train trip It will be a three-day three trip and I will have a lower berth Mother says she thinks I am entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to the seat that faces for for- ward If this isn't so o Id I'd rather nave have an upper berth as it always makes me seasick if I have to ride backward Thank you for forthe forthe forthe the information JEAN yo C Your mother is right ight Jean Reservation of the lower berth entitles entitles entitles en en- titles you to the forward facing seat If your companion on the opposite opposite op op- seat is a pleasant woman and also dislikes riding backward it is isa isa isa a courtesy to ask her to sit with you TRAIN YOUR VOICE Dear Miss Blair My family is always poking fun at my voice They put their put their fingers in their ears when I t talk lk and also when I try to sing At last Ive I've given up trying to sing but I 1 I- I Ido do wish I could train my voice so people wouldn't have to stop up their ears ears when I speak Can you help me RASPY If you could afford to take vocal lessons either for singing or spee speech h that would be the ideal thing to do doto doto to make voice corrections but there is much you can do to help your your- self Try listening to your own voice on the following exercises and see if you ca can make improvements from day dayto to day Take the word oh and I go up and d down wn the musical scale Make Make- It express sudden pain pleased surprise sarcasm delight of a child exhaustion natured good-natured sympathy hesitation fright impatience impatience tience indignation Wh n h When you have learned to express express express ex ex- ex- ex press through the utterance of a single syllable the entire range of emotion you are beginning to make your voice a vehicle for the ideas and thoughts you w wish sh to convey Adopt a modulated conversational tone Lone and s say y the vowels oyer and over This This also is excellent mt voice gymnastics NOTE TO EVERGLADE There Is no premium on your coin except that of its own face value I r have no catalog for foreign coins but would be pleased to give you names and addresses of coin dealers on receipt of a stamped self ad dressed envelope |
