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Show i - Glamor Girls Rate All the Dates, ! Says Dateless One i Heart's Haven : ' By urn blah i Dear Miaa Blair: ' 1 wonder why aome g irli think they have to have every boy In the achool crazy about them? , How on earth doei a girl, not ao popular, fight for her manT The girl in question already haa two boyi crazy about her, yet aha trie to keep at least a dozen dangling on her string. Aa soon as ahe sees a boy headed in another girl's direction she turns on the glamor and, presto, has him coming her way . And what makes ana o furious is that all the boys fall for it six months now my daughter has seemed indifferent to everything around her because the boy she had been going steady with suddenly sud-denly broke off and started going wlth another glri. I wish you would sxplaln your atatemeat more fully. Thank you. "Mother." Naturally people, especially young people, suffer the lose of love and loved ones. X do not mean that human beings should become so hardened to human experiences that they have no emotional reactions to them. I do mean that If they continue con-tinue on and en to permit their emotions to envelope them in wave after wave of emotional sprees and hangovers from which they are unable un-able to extricate themselves, that they are 111, that they develop complexes, com-plexes, that these complexes finally final-ly maks neurotics of them, that they need the help of a good mental hygienlst to help them back oa the read to good mental health. In the Victorian period It was though very respectable for young ladles te dwindle and die of broken hearts when their lovers re)scted them. Today we know such people are mentally in. through self-indulgence In the kind of self pity that makes their personalities "grow in" like an ingrowing toenail, we Immediately Im-mediately know It la their own Inner feeling of Insecurity, and not outward circumstances, that la to blame. There are many excellent books In ths 11 editions on the market today treating the subject of mental bveiene. Look up such books as "Keeping Mentally Pit," by Jas trow, "Ths Humsn Mind, by Men-infer, Men-infer, "About Ourselves," by Over- Aa soon aa this girl found out I was going to ask a certain boy to the girls- dance sh beat me to it When I asked him he said ths other girl hed already asked him. and then he went raving on to the effect that I didn't want to take blm anyway. Daeaa Failed The trouble la that we have hsd two or three ether upsets before this when dates didn't pan out I have been afraid of showing him that I really eared for fear he didnt cars, too, and now he accuses ac-cuses me of not wanting to go with blm. I don't think It Is my place to try to make another date with . him aa the girl's dance is ths only thing girls maks dates for. I sup- pose fve lost this boy now, but . please UU me what te do to keep the next one that comes along T "Bobbie." . e e e The glamor girl's dsy deesnt last forever. There comes a time when a boy wants a girl who has spent time oa filling her hsad with Inter-eating Inter-eating knowledge so ahe can eon-verse eon-verse intelligently, so her talents have been Improved, ee her cXarao-' cXarao-' ter haa taken on grace and stability. stabil-ity. Aa a rule the glamor girl haa been ao busy manufacturing glamor that ahe hasn't had time for anything any-thing else. Why not continue te be gracious and frlaadly with the boy you didn't take to ths girl's danoeT Invite him to your horns for aa evening of bridge or other games with another an-other twosome. Don't forget that it la always a girl's privilege to invite her friends to hsr horns, both boys and girls, whenever home circumstances cir-cumstances permit And don't hold resentmsnt against ths boy. All ugly or selfish emotion maks lines in ths face to describe one better than worda can. Shew Interest When the next boy comes along don't be afraid te let him know you are tremendously interested In him. Friendship must be a mutual thing and when a boy gets up courage cour-age to ask a girl be likes for a date he wants that girl to anew by hsr sttltude that she Is pleased with him Wf WKI) "tilts tsTTltTarrttttltintle't tlfT eTJH ' afford. Bay Td love te go,' and 1st him know when It's ever what a good time you had. Pit your good tense, your naturalness, natural-ness, your youthful eagsrnsss, your charm, your love of good friendships against glamor, and see If It doesn't work. KITTENS FOR GIFTS Good homes are wanted for three o ran re colored part Persian kittens. Call Was. Io7. BROKEN HEARTS Dear Miss Blair: Recently In your column you said "broken hearts aren't caused by love, but by neuroses," For street. Humsn Hearts need preparation prepa-ration as wsll ss human minds to meet eoursceously whst lies before them In lifs. They need to know that If ons thing falls ths choice In other directions is unlimited. |