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Show Boys Who Utter nenasnip Seldom Ask Girl for Date; Problem Is to Remedy This By BETTY BLAIK Methods of "winning your man" vary as much as do the men themselves. Young boys like to be entertained and praised. As they , into manhood they like the more substantial qualities adult and clever women possess, Dear Betty Blair: I have been going to writs to you for aoma time, and now hers I am. If I break the rules, throw ma out. ' This Is my trouble: I like several sev-eral boys quits well, and don't seem to b able to get a data with them. For goodness aakes, UU me bow to manage the situation. I bava heard from others that these boys liks me real welL I am good naturrd, full of pep, talkative talka-tive and not half bad looking. After I go with a boy once he always comes back again. If you can, grvs ma a few pointa on how to win the boys. I'm not a wallflower or unpopular in any way, but I'm not half way satisfied satis-fied with the boys I go with. The ones I want to go with very seldom sel-dom come my way. when .they . pick their girl, even though they are awfully friendly with me and consider me as one of their best friends. Any Information you give me will ba prised. "MIDGET." Shall I tell you what the girls do who DO MANAGE to get the datea with these fellows you like best? You watch them closely and see if I'm not right. In the first place, they cultivate a peppy line. The modern youth wants above everything else to be entertained by a 'live wire.' Ha is most attracted at-tracted by the girl whose eyes sparkle and whose tongue rattles; who knows how to laugh and how to make him laugh; who has vigor, vim, vitality; who it NOT "dead on her feet" you may be sure be Is coming your wsy. Not Like Me! "Goodness, all this doesnt sound a bit like you, Betty Blair," I hear soms of my readers saying. As a matter of fact, it Isn't L I'm aim-ply aim-ply repeating to you what a popular popu-lar young lady told ma when I asked her what aha did to make the boys like her and ask her for dates. I've told it to you as nearly like she told me as I could. She used a few more current terms than I could remember, but tha sense of it remains the same. I wonder as I write It how msny different hinds of boys there are who would like the kind of girl who follows this advice repeatedly. I don't mean to find fault with my young friend who gave me these directions, for evidently there are toys who liks-thia- method I must add to this, however, that there are boys and boys, and the main thing is to study the likes of the particular boy you Ilka and try to be the kind of girl he has in mind unless -his Idea violates your standards. Dear Miss Blair: I am to be married in Los Angeles An-geles in February, in a amall non-sectarisn non-sectarisn chapel. My big problem prob-lem Is concerning what I should wear, or what will ba appropriate appropri-ate for the ceremony. I have a new whita taffeta formal I would like to wear, but I am rather dubious about it It hasn't long sleeves, and then the bridegroom is going to wear a dark business suit Also I havs a navy blue street dress with accessories. Which would be more appropriate to wear under the circumstances? I sincerely thank you for any information. "FEBRUARY BRIDE." If you can't persuade tha bridegroom bride-groom to wear morning or afternoon after-noon formal attiro In order that you should wear the whita formal dress, then I suggest that you wear the blue afternoon dress with matching hat and accessories. It is the bride's privilege to wear what she chooses, and tha bridegroom bride-groom should follow suit in regard to the formality of the attire, but rather than spoil the picture I'm sure you'd rather do tha compromising. compro-mising. You didn't say what time of day you were to be married, or whether or not you were to have attendants. attend-ants. However this may be. the bride may wear the traditional gown and veil at any time of day. She sets the pace for tha others in ths wedding party, who ahouist dress sccordingly. . Show Admiration If, In addition to liveliness, a girl has looks and with beauty aids and clothes few need go without they're so much velvet. Then if you're keen on observing you'll learn In what manner these girls show their admiration for the boys whom they admire. Really clever admiration means mora than crude oral compliments. The expert does it with her eyes, with the Intonations Intona-tions of her voice, with the little fluttering "unconscious" contact of hand against coat sleeve. Furthermore, Further-more, she shows a sweet deference defer-ence to his opinion on all matters and a careful concealment of her own intelligence when it comes in conflict with his. When he gets to the point that he will slander these other young men admirers of yours, when he says he can't see what there is for you to see in "those other bimbos," bim-bos," when he says with savage tones that they are all "dead from the neck up," that "none of them can hold a job over night," then |