| Show PLATONIC friendship my aly friend nan says she has no patience with propinquity girls eirls and I 1 had to ask what she meant thereby so she e elucidated ci dated saying they were the girls who accepted men merely because the two lived next door or I 1 because they were thrown together every day not in every instance of their own making it is worth thinking about Is it no not t I 1 you get into the habit of relying on a friend seen every lay day but that is not necessarily love on his part nor on yours but the prince who comes a wooing from many miles away you u know ile he brushes obstacles away in the desire to see you wily why cant the propinquity gir girl ill take the young man as a comfortable I 1 I 1 chum chum much as she might take her berj brather W 4 11 wt aai va amt on thail has d cc fx t b 4 y r MX A I 1 and lived cul disastrously comein es by various men men and women the truly ideal friendship Is that between men lon and women but outside ot of mar 1 ariage it is seldom found tor for the simple reason that one tumbles unreasonably 1 in love while the other preserves unruffled he be calm state of pure friendship and that ends the whole thing I 1 there are certain hard and fast rules that govern friendships between girls and men and it if these are broken woo to the friendship first amons among these is the care to be taken not to use any or of the unconscious little wile which arc called feminine the glance of the eye must be curbed as ar though it were a tricky horse and as for smiles they must be as free from sentimentality and as for syra syia pathy you must give as grudgingly as a miser and bluff off any that mems veering your way of course there ts is sympathy between you or there would be no true friendship but beware of its expression let it be felt as an underlying current if you like but never fly its flags in effect then it if you wish to be good comrades with men keep up a discouragingly cou boyish front and if you keep your own heart steady you will probably succeed ex |
