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Show Girl Stepped On -Worm-to Her Own Loss By BETTY BLAIR A poor worm, trodden on. finally turns and likes Its new status better than the old. It may even live to be a gorgeous specimen of a butterfly and like it. Any girl who thinks of a devoted friend as a worm should pause to remember that unless it is killed outright It always turnsr- Dear Miss Blair: Six months ago I met a very nice young man whose manners and looks are perfect too perfect per-fect as is also hn treatment of me. So much so, that I became too sure of him. Sometimes I acted pretty indifferent and rude with him. But he just acted hurt, and I'd say to myself, "The poor sap can't even get angry." He treated me as if I were a plaster saint I had dates with other boys but he would just stay home and never make dates with other girls. I figured he was slow and a sissy and a sucker. When we went any place with a crowd of two other boys and girls my friend always paid the bills. The boys would let him do it and then make fun of him afterward. The Turning Point One night when 1 had been eJp eeptionally rude he Just looked at me, but I had never seen him look Just that way before. Then he aaid as coollv-as if I were a stranger: "Molly, If you get so bored with me, why don't you be a good sport and say so. I lived a long time before I met you and I think I could manage to go on without you." I said I was sorry and we seemed to be okeh with each other again. But things have never been the same since. He stopped coming to see me except once a week, and then he acted as if he were doing me a favor. I began to hear of other girls he was stepping, and 1 even saw them together, though he didn't see me. Three weeks ago he invited me to go to a resort with him, and I suggested another resort. Previously Pre-viously he went wherever I suggested, sug-gested, but this time he just said, "Okay, honey, go there if you wish, but I'm going to ." I havent seen him since. I now realize that I love him and that I just didn't have sense enough to appreciate his fineness fine-ness nor the depth of his affection affec-tion for me. Can you help me? "MOLLY LEE." When the worm once turns, seldom, sel-dom, if ever, does it flop back Into its old rut. It gets to liking the new order of its existence. It finds that genuine appreciation pleases Its ego. Even a worm needs its ego pleased. It's the thing that keeps all human worms -and that means all of us from deliberately Joining tha homicide homi-cide squad. Your cause is hopeless unless your experience has developed you from rather a spoiled young lady to a stage of adulthood where you can see another's point of view. That young man certainly "took plenty" from you. Somebody evidently put a bug in his ear. A real friend, no doubt, saw how you were leading him around by the nose. Can you now genuinely approach him, when the opportunity arises not by forced entrance, mind you and show him that you have at last reached a womanliness that Is genuine? gen-uine? Can you, without making it seem Insincere, boost this boy's ego a little, ao that life for him will be more worth living because another sees his fineness and appreciates it? If you can do this without seeming to be buttering your own slice of bread, you may at least win his friendship back. It will be worth trying for aomeone who seems so worth while. FOR 'l.l t II.E" A waln who writes a right good letter wants to get in touch with "Lucils," who wrote in the column for June 21. He signs his nam "Little A.," and assures m "Lucils" may have the letter he has written providing sh will com to Heart's Haven for it, or send a atamped self-sddressed envelope with her request re-quest for it. "Little A." is past Is. drives his own car and likes a good time. NOTE TO -VIRGINIA' Hsv you checked with the public pub-lic library for your Dorothy Thompson Thomp-son verses. You will be assisted at the library in locating them if there, and tha library ia our only aource for such Information after our own Tribune-Telegram library baa been searched. It so happens we don't have the verses In our own library. TO WASH CHIFFOJT Dear Miss Blair: Will you please tell me how ts wash a chiffon and georgette dress? Also pleas tell me bow 1st in th fall this kind of dress may be worn. Thank you. "L." Flac th dress in larg bowl or pan of tepid suds of pur whit soap flakes. Move about In th water and press gently between th hands, but do not rub. Repeat tha process in clean suds. Rinse in three waters if necessary to remove soap. Take th entir garment In th hands at once, ao there will be no dragging of th fabric to tear Hi by its weight. Lay on a thick Turkish towel, pull Into shape, cover with another towel and roll up. Pre with a warm, hot Iron while atill damp. |
