Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-01
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Business Girl and Love
Most Affairs Of Heart Worth Name
Begin in Friendship.

Most love affairs worth the name
begin in friendship. and that may be
why so many people sheer at "platonic
friendship" But what's in a name?
Sympathy and understanding between
a girl and a man who are not rela
tons may be considered "platonic."
And i; is certainly true that in the
vast majority OF cases. It ripcns into
love. But is it amy worse a friend
ship for that?
1t is the business girls friendships
with her men and women friends that
lend interest and happiness to life.
Nowadays girls have far greater OPP
portuniiies OF making friends, and one
of The charms OF the business girl is
that she can have men friends with
out imagining that every man who
shows her consideration a.d admira-
ton is going TO fall in love"
Sometimes girls are perhaps too
anxious to make friends. They rush
into iptimacies with a man or girl
friend and are disappointed when the
friendship dies an UntimelY death from
being overdonc IN the beginning.
Popular Girl Has Affairs.
Make friends by all means. girls. but
exercise discretion at the beginning.
and you are not 50 likely to regret
it later on. There are some girls who
simply cannot help making friends.
both men and girls arc attracted by
their bright ways. their Kind words
and unsclfish manners,
She is a general favoritc." say
o. such a girl. and perhaps wonder
Tistfully why she has so many loyal
friends, why she never lacks a part
ner. at a dance, or some one to go
about with. she manages to ;;et
around people" says the spitcful girl,
who would give the world for her So
cial success, the secret OF her popu-
larity.
The popular girl has always her
little love affairs. She makes friends
in business and at home. She con.
has. always hated new women" who
work for their living into a stanch
champion Of business girls. into an
ardent suftragist if she likes. She
has n way with her, but there is
nothing mysterious about her attrac-
ton.
Time and Place For All.
In the first place, the popular girl
who has more lovers than her more
beautiful friend is unselhsh. generous
with kind words and helpful deeds She
Is always ready TO sympathzc with
other peoples worries. and would no
more dream OF Snuhbiug n man be-
cause he is shy and embarrassing than
she would try to attract another girls
lover from sheer malice or thourh;loss
cruelty She has a knack OF entering
into other peoples JOY. ms well AS their
sorrows. She never crudgcs prosperity
and happiness To others She does
not try to take the gilt off other pco-
pies gingerbread The business girl
VINO has mo time" for friendship is
not getting the best out of life II
is 1ust as bad to get cNErosscd in ones
work as 10 neglect work and duty fo,
me sake OF an interesting firtation
Ihere is a time ana a Mace for
everything" and the business Girl who
allows her love affairs TO Interfere
with her work Is very foolish. John
VIII think all the more OF YOU if Won
make your duty to your employer come
oetore any outing, any pleasure he
may offer. The girl who is faithful 10
her work will make all the better wife
ana John Is wise enough to see that
The day Is past when men admired
the useless. senselesS. clinginG girl
who could do nothing for herself. who
was unable'to look up a train. TO come
TO decision. without the helm of :,
masculine relation
The business girl has proved once
and FOR all that she can be a keen. ca
pabie business woman and am inter
estinE, attractive girl AT the sam,
time. She knows the folly of affect
ing mannish ways slangy expressions
The type of girl who hourishcd "a Gig
arette-casr before her old-fa fashioned
maiden aunt. vii" imagined That a
latch key should make her emAuc!pa,-
ed In the sense of losing all her soft
feminine charm, very soon realized
mat her attitu&. was. not a success
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