Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-04
RUSSELL 6 WESTON COMPANY 1so-ts2 WATER ST, AUGUSTA

90, with her own plans, ambitions, and
endS, that there is no room beside her
IRE lof anybody else to sit down. This
Girl always makes herself comfortable
ana docs not care a Zig whether or not
others suffer In a street car she
pounceS upon the best vacant seat,
and never thinks OF Offering il to an
elderly lady or 4 woman burdened with
q child, or anybody else who looks tir-
Cd and Worn. She sends her brothers
ana sisters al over the house on her
eTrandG, but il does not occur to her
to run upstairs f0.' the book her moth
eT IS reading, the shawl her grand
mother needs. CT the box of TOYS t!lat
MAJ amuGe Il whiting youngster she
very willingly divides a treat with or
spends money for her friends, but she
thinks primarily Of No. /. Take cure
Of No is her lnaxim. Nobody VINO
makes this her life motto will ever
have many friends.
Another thing that makes a girl I'M
popular IS affcctaiion. This is cspcci Ally
Il SirlS defect. one hardly ever sees it
in 4 boy. Your brother may he u tease
or u torment; he may be rough and ,;lum
Sy; he may provoke YOU by forgetting his;
manners, but he is not apt to put on tll'.
airs of other people. lie viii be just
himself
Eut girls sometimes D,rnocplv and
sometimes uncons"ionsly initiate thos,,
around Them and IN speech and behavior
ar" not quite genuine. Nobody can have
very much pati"nc" with AN affected girl
pc; es and acts Il part. You would better
ask yourself, Dorothy, if YOU arr. aI,Xysi
SIMPLE and sincere and willing to be the
PLAIN, honest girl that yoar mother knows
a tt,,.T 10 N.rifh "a.
because il YOU are, the girls will present
ly begin to love YOU. too.
Real p' ople who belong to the realities
Of lie. and who are not trying to mas
qIerade in characters that arc not their
OWL are almost always sure of gaining
esteem. and after esteem comes affection.
There is lust the possibility that the
girl who moIrnS because she is unpopul /
cares too much about Il, ana is too
anxious to have the conspicuous pllcp*
Your older sister could tell You If !; giri
~ her class III college. Mo was lovely,
provided she could Do pushed into 4 posi-
tion Of leadership. ii only every one
| would look NJ to her, ask what III.
thought, and @lyc her the casting vote,
nobody could compare with her in court
! '"y. Eut pass her oyer, ana ask her
nest door nciGhbor to walk with YOU, or
tnE" Il chair III Il COMMITTEES mtrtin. ana
! thus Gnl irnzc ana was as cold ana dis
tant and hard and unrcsTonsivc as IN ice
bound brook III January. Let .Eor lead,
;Ili 81" was liSclMtln2, OInM htr from
| ~" program ana Sh" immediately became
q trhNnA. y girl who is bound t. b. fore
. ih0>I IT any cost may b" admired hut
Sin will not be the most dearly loved girl
III her class.
I Ii | We're You, Dorothy. | would NOT
worry any more about tins thing that has
been causing Won to look pGn&.Vc and
, have dropping lines about your mouth and
wear a GrlcVcd ana martEr-!ike OK
preston. popularity Is very We'll. if it
comes unsougit :tnd rs the reward 81
goodness, Kindness, and unafiIi$hneee
, But it IS not the thing best worth trying
for
Sometimes it is disgrace to h, nopu
laf. II one becomes popular through
! counting other peoples favor and doing
what Is called tploynS she has no reason
to be proud: she ought rather t. blush
"A girl who is true and loving and cnutir
{ considerable. thoughtful. and ready to do
the next thing for the next person, with
that roitenc@s which springs from a good
heart, need not be afraid that she Will
, ever he the unpopular girl in her circle.