Show URGE TO DRAMATIZE j BECOMES CONFUSED l t WITH c. c B By of No Mothers Mother's y Hasn't Learned Necessity Saying t. t i Dislike for Boy Hinders Friendship By BETTY BLAIR Unless a person is afflicted with the inability to tb distinguish distin- distin truth from fiction the urge to may be put to creative uses One should determine this fact through the dIagnosIs of a specialist and then sot set to work to either help effect a cure or to encourage the creative urge Dear Miss Blair I am going with a young oung girl whom I love very dear dearly I 1 have been considering asking her to tobe be my wife but there is one thin thing that holds me back She is R the greatest girl Irl f A I I. I ever saw to dramatize every every- thing At first I 1111 11 thou thought ht this was II Ill N very cute and laughed at t it In fact I think in It was this very e thIng that made me Tall fall for her in the first place The Thc trouble Is that no nOW I dont don't know when she is acting and when she is telling the truth about things She will vill do an ansay and say some things that I 1 take serIously seriously serI serI- and that sh she will lead me meto e eto to believe arc serious and I 1 wIll suddenly wake up the fact that she has been the time She always has for her e that she thought I 1 knew she was wasS S play Sometimes this is most exas- exas perating I will tell ot other r people C l lome some ome of the th things ns she tells tell me of it itIs it itis Then come to find out none o Is the truth and I have to to go goS to tomy tomy S around my friends This girl has so o many good qualities and such a sweet disposition dis dis- position and altogether I 1 care so much for her I dont don't want vant to throw her over I 1 know It would just about break her up in busi busi- nc ness if I did Is there anything I can do to Lo persuade or help her herto herto to break this annoying habit Thank you J K Induce her to join a group roup of dramatists such as are found in dramatic dra- dra matic art schools or at the Art Barn where the city's young people inter inter- ested in dramatic art art write pl plays y or select those written by other are ar- lists roach coach them and dramatize th them m The amount of work necessarY for I each ne to do is enough to gratify most anyone's dramatic urge When you see her perform with her probably as a copyreader of If the plays she herself may write compliment her on her ability to pro duce such good fiction both as actor and author But urge upon her the fact that the truth of your two lives together is more beautiful than any fiction could rould be and that you OU wa want t ther her to keep the output ot of her creative crea- crea tive imagination for her pen or for forthe forthe the expression of 0 her histrionic ability abil abil- ity while you two express your lives Jives and the things you shall say sayto sayto to each other wholly In fn truth Given an outlet for an imagination that seems to work overtime the girl should h uld practice control of her speech and learn the seriousness of not doIng do do- ing so through you ou who arc areno no doubt her dearest friend Explain to her herthe herthe the plain fact that there is a pla place for fiction and a place for fact and the one should never be interchanged for tor the other With an imagination that is really Letters Questions and re- re advice should be ad dressed to MISS B BET E T T Y V BLAIR HEARTS HEART'S HAVEN SALT L LA A K E. E Write le legibly upon only one side ot of the paper I It is necessary that you append append ap- ap pend the right name and address address ad- ad dress but theAe will be held in strict confidence and will nit nt appear in print Questions involving In in- advertising Information anno be answered I creative the girl cirl through pro proper r rec- rec Of her own powers may come to be a playwright ht or novelist You who recognize this ability can help her greatly TOO NATURED GOOD Dear Miss Blair Did you OU ever hear or of a person b being ing too natured good The boy I go with is so natured good he lets all his friends impose on him He has a car that his friends just walk away with because he neVer knows how to sa say No I have mentioned the tact fact to him several times and bawled him out when we stay home while his friends take his car to toco togo go co places He always says Well they're my friends arent aren't they And wouldn't they do the same for me r IS tell him they wouldn't with emphasis md and he says he knows mows he must be soft soH but he just cant capt turn them down Of course they furnish the gas but who would pay up if they had a crash or broke anything He says Oh they would look alter after that But ButI I know the they Honestly Miss Blair it makes me so mad I dont don't know what to do Is there any way I can tea teach h this boy to say No PLAIN MAD with you that there are occasions oc oc- casion and many of them hem when one should say no and mean it It would be expensive but probably a good lesson for the boy if the borrowing lads did have some sort ort of accident with the car for which the owner of it had to pay It takes just such hard lessons to teach the natured good person to say no But if it is so hard for him to say no why dont don't you his better angel put in a standing bid for or that car carand carand and see to It that it doesn't go out of your jurisdiction It could then be used by the two of 0 you without tear fear ot of being taken away for you would then be the one to say no The license bureau and a clergyman could give you a ver very legitimate right to be the negative member of 0 the family I IOTHER 1 DISLIKES BOY BOYDe De Dear r Miss Blair There is a boy I like but my mother se seems ms to very much I cant can't find out what it is about him especially s that she doesn't like but she says she just doesn't want me mc to go with him and he is sure if I wait another boy will come alon along whom I will vill like better I cant can't tell the mother doesn't like him as that would make him feel bad He is really a very nice boy only m my mother doesn't know him as well as I do Is there any way I can change her attitude He keeps asking me to go places and I have to give him excuses excuse I cant can't keep this up forever Thank you UNHAPPY Cant Can't you OU strike some kind ot of a happy bargain with y your ur mother Something to the effect that it if after she has had an opportunity to become better acquainted with him in your home she still doesn't like him and cm can say why you ou will give him up But add that the reason must be a areal areal real one and nd nothing Imaginary that has been built up by her prejudice against him You see it is Quite possible that either of you may be mistaken in the boy Your mother may know some real characteristic against the boy that she knows would not harm harmonize nize with yours On the other hand she may be entirely mistaken She would no doubt be glad to give the lad a chance to show his good qualities and may even decide to forgive forgive for for- give him for tor minor faults she has held against him It takes acquaintanceship acquaint acquaint- to determine these things |