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Show Parents often learn from their v kids, and maybe you'll jolt yours. DEAR SALLY: All the girls in our crowd have been invited by some boys we like to attend a big dinner dance with them. My folks recently gave me for my birthday a gorgeous new evening gown and I'd like very much to wear it to this dance. The only thing is that I . happen to know that the boys will all be wearing business suits. Would it still be all right for me to wear my new gown? ALMA. DEAR ALMA: Not if you were the only girl in the party wearing a gown. Why don't you get together with the other girls and suggest that they 'dress up," too, for this party? Usually this doesn't take much persuading and quite often at such affairs the feminine members of a party will wear gowns, even though their escorts attend in business suits. For the faithful followers of "Dear Sally": last week's issue of the Independent included the question but not the answer to the next letter. Here are both question and its answer for our readers who have this problem. DEAR SALLY: Maybe you'll think I'm a poor sport, a bad loser, or just a plain cheapskate but here goes anyway. At the end of our bowling night every week, the other four fellows on my team and I have been flipping coins to see who pays for the beer - and four times out of five I come out the loser. This has been going on all this seasoa and I'm beginning to feel that I'm a sucker - but don't know what to do about it. Advice? GUS. DEAR GUS: You can skip the beer with your teammates -- and go home. DEAR STEW: You're being taken for the well-known ride by a very unstable sort of girl. And that late-date routine in most circles is better known as "two-timing." "two-timing." For my money, yours is no engagement and you'd be better off if you cancel out right now. DEAR SALLY: I'm a girl of 15, and very much attracted to a darling boy of 16. The trouble is, whenever he asks me for a date to go to the movies or to the snack bar where all our crowd does, I always have to pay my own way. He tells me he doesn't have much allowance money from his parents and that he has only enough money for himself on these dates. But I happen to know that he always has enough money to go bowling or to sports events with his buddies. I can't bring myself to dropping this cute fellow, but what else can I do about this? KAY. i DEAR KAY: An occasional Dutch treat date between boy and girl is all right, but when a boy does this all the time, he's just riding the gravy train. Certainly, if he's going to date the same girl quite often, he should prepare himself him-self to foot most of the bills. The next time he asks you for a date, tell him that you can't afford the cost this time. It might awaken this fellow to the fact that you don't like paying everytime for the pleasure of his company. DEAR SALLY: I'm a boy 10 years old, and my parents are always doing something that bothers me. They like to talk or gossip about friends and neighbors. First they'll say to me, "Don't you listen to this," and then they go on with their talking about other people, and how can I help listening? Isn't this kind of dumb? BIG EARS. DEAR BIG EARS: I'll bet the fact that your parents caution you against listening proves they know it's wrong to gossip. And Til go along with you, it is "kind of dumb" to expect you to close up your ears while they talk. The next time they suggest this, try coming back with "Why don't you wait until I'm not around? Dear Sally By Sally Shaw DEAR SALLY: The girl I became engaged to two months ago has been behaving oddly here of late. She's dating other fellows on the nights I don't call on her. She claims this is her way of having - a last fling before , settling down to married life, that in this way she will get all other men "out of her system." The payoff came last Saturday night when I brought her home at 1:30 a.m. and there was another guy waiting to take her out. She told me this is called "late dating," and that it's done all the time. But I'm just about fed up. Do you blame me? IN A STEW |