Show How ow to Make lake New Friends We had just moved into a new newhouse newhouse newhouse house in a new neighborhood in a anew anew anew new town a little Western city without any of the advantages of a amore amore amore more erudite community The second second second sec sec- ond day we were there she came bearing gifts gUts a glass of jelly she had made from wild chokecherries the autumn before She was just a little country I woman She had always lived there She hadn't ever been more than I fifty miles from home had never neverseen neverseen neverseen I I seen a railroad train or an airplane had been only once to the movies But I never met one of more cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cos cos- personality of broa broader er vision or of more supreme happi happi- ness You couldn't be with her for more than an hour without catching the spirit of her infectious laugh of her rare and rollicking good humor or some of the spirit of her amazing charm Yet she was a woman who had lived all her l life e without advantages advantages advantages One evening as we sat on the porch I questioned her closely about her philosophy of life and the genesis genesis genesis gene gene- sis of her personality And I believe that what she told me will go with me as a source of inspiration and help as long as I live I also believe It may likewise help you All her life she has merely made it a point to make a new friend of every new v person who moves into the community It was the reflection of her friendship toward others that I made her eyes shine her conversation conversation conversa conversa- I tion sparkle with good fellowship and the humor that end endeared oared her to everyone within a radius of a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles She drew you like a magnet Her charm was ible And all she had done was to make a new friend I suppose in her l life e that some p persons had taken advantage of her friendship I suppose she had been cheated and robbed as I have as you have Maybe you and I have become become become be be- come a little bit embittered because of it Not she She found the new friends she won outweighed the loss of those who were faithless to her trust If you will assume that everyone is your friend and try to make new social contacts every day it will do some mysterious and very good things to your personality It will make your personality warm and friendly and will wiIl draw persons to you from every walk of l life e. e Far better than any academic rules of psychology is the simple rule of the mountain woman which I learned as dusk fell and the rabbits rabbits rabbits rab rab- bits came out to play If you want friends you have to show folks you are a friend I guess that is all there is to it |