Show Life Is Dull For Boy in ill Exacting J Job JobBy 0 By BETTY BETrY BLAIR Every job has its toll as well as its payroll Millions of men and women women women wom wom- en think they are arc misfits in the work they are doing This th ht takes greater toll than if it they made up their minds to make their jobs serve them and releasing their bondage Dear Miss Blair I am a boy of 17 and am very much alone I have no friends and haven't had as far back as I Ican Ican Ican can remember I am just not able to get people to like me I have Hearts Heart's Haven never been where there are people and now I dont don't know how to act when I am with them My mother became very Iii ili about six years ago and has been so since We have no girls in our family of five boys except the baby who came in 1931 Somehow Somehow Somehow Some Some- how it fell to my lot to do the housework I have been doing it ever since and now it is proving almost fatal My family treats me meas meas meas as they would a maid or household household household house house- hold servant Discouraged I think if I could get away I would improve in time I have only lived because my mother did somehow This coming summer I am going to go far away In Inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime I am trying to earn money but am not doing very well I have no sports but I Ilove Ilove Ilove love music and I know several operas on the piano I want to know what to do to get away from here I do hope you can suggest something I Iam Iam Iam am so self conscious I cant can't make people like me I have to stay home until my family says I can cango cango cango go and I wont won't let mother defend me because it makes more trouble Do you know of any place where I could go and work my way I am going to be a psychologist when I am older My mother is willing for me to go where I can be better treated Please try to help me If you want to get in touch with me say so Thank you JOHN Well John there are ever so many things I want you to clear up You say you have never been where people are yet you roust must have been to school for at least ten years of your life Young people begin making making making mak mak- ing friends among their school school- mates This friendship is carried beyond the confines of the school schoolyard schoolyard yard into homes But you have cut yourself off from friendship opportunities opportunities opportunities because you have felt ashamed of the kind of work you ou have had to do to help the cause along Am I right What Shat About Brothers I With five boys in the family some of them must be earning money outside the home and probably probably probably proba proba- bly helping in that way to the family ir And since you are the one who fell into the job of housekeeper housekeep housekeep- er they think you should be there when your services are needed Am AmI I right Being a boy youre you're sick and tired of this kind of work You want freedom and you want to take your place among a world of boys anc and men with man he-man ambitions But Bui you seem to forget that in a world of men he-men several million of them there are looking for work Any kind of work they can get Personal Assets Help Uncle Sam is going to enlarge his navy Can you qualify for a job to swab decks and learn navigation I from the ground up Would your mother be willing for you to be a sailor boy With your knowledge of cooking you might come to be ships ship's chef Or how about the army Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member most jobs finally come to tobe tobe tobe I be routine work from which the only escape is joblessness And the way to any job is in the flivver of the knowledge you already possess Possibilities Do you perform well enough on the piano that you could hold a ajob ajob ajob job as bellhop in one of the national national national na na- na- na park hotels and as entertainer entertainer enter enter- tamer in evening programs Do you cook well enough that you could be assistant cook and entertainer entertainer enter enter- tamer National parks demand entertaining entertaining entertaining en en- ability in those whose services they employ And then its it's a scramble to get the jog og among so many college students who make application from all over the land But to get anywhere in this life you have to fight for it Your victories victories vic vie tories will depend on the manner in which you fight and the weapons at your command Come on in and lets let's see what your scrapping abilities abilities abil abil- are like Il 11 you on for four rounds of a good word battle I r really believe its it's a good fight you need as much as a. anything Ill I'll be looking for you WICKER FURNITURE Dear Miss Blair I want to clean and repaint my wicker porch furniture before spring really arrives Please tell me the best way to clean it Thank you MRS F. F a 0 C If wicker furniture is scrubbed well with warm salt sait and water only it will look like new The salt not only cleans but stiffens the wicker Scour with the salt that has been warmed and rinse with the water and cleaning rag I |