The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-01
GIRLS WHO MAKE UNWISE
CHOICE OF FRIENDS.

CHOICE OF FRIENDS.
Thou truest friend man ever knew,
Thy constancy I've tried;
Where all were false, found thee
true,
Ny counselor and guide"
What girls and young women are
there who do not take the best hour
of evenings and occasionally slip
away afternoons in quest of friends to
chat and gossip with. At weekly gath
erings, dance parties and bright enter
tainments girls chum together, each
of whom usually has some laughable
new experience, of a new flames adj
miration for her, or takes advice as
to how some disappointing episode
will turn out or car be bettered.
From girlhood's days to young
womanhood's realm, bosom friends
cling closely and some too intimately,
claiming control over confding ones
that amounts to fascination. What
they do not find out from these I'M
wise confidants is not worth knowing,
let alone keeping their secrets intact.
Girls are at times drawn to one an
other in friendship; if they make good
Roadway, being anxious to see more of
each other. the ways as we'll as the
going, about of one often yield to the
other in uncomfortable will power.
On the start of their acquaintance
they are far and apart from some 9TH
er, only on speaking terms until the
ice of reserve is melted. Then it does
not take long for flame of devotion
to spring up and at some unlucky OPP
portunity they pour out all of the
pent up wrongs they fancy are theirs,
feeling sure and relieved that the bur-
den had been cast into a friends bos-
ON which beats only with pure sym
pathy for their unhappy lot.
Here comes the DID, old saying:
"She told friend of hers all about
so-and-so. That friend let her own
friends into the odd secret. Each
| promised it should not be repeated,
never 20 go farther. But overheard
it in run-about fashion, put this and
that together, and now could boldly
confront her with the whole story
in nutshell"
Girls whose hearts are most liable
to err in this unwise choice of friends
are to be found by the score every
where and any place. They are most
ly neutrality-suspicious. girls, of affec-
4 tionate natures, who are lonely and
whose wish is to find just such re-
sourceful friends who will drive dull
care away; those whom one will put
her arms about and do so many oblig-
ing things for. 1t never enters the
mind Of the woman who casts her
| burden on the wrong friend whether
it is wise or bound to end in the
bitterest feud between them some
day.
It is only brave woman whose
good common sense is the means Of
rescuing her from the peril. The
bosom friend who keeps sacredly all
tabs on other peoples business is not
worth this eye-opening about. She is
a paste treasure whom many have
found out.
1t isn't the easiest thing in the
world TO find number of best friends
alike, all disappointing and abusing
the pitiful trust imposed upon them
/ in a burst of confidence. The really
good friends that the heart should GO
out to are not the pretentious, delight
disappearing, brilliant, push-forward
persons who infer that it seems as #
they had known you for a lifetime,
and who throw out fattering compli-
ments whenever you meet. Girls had
better stay at home and prudently
take plenty of time to consider wisely
the ideals which they would raise
when they would go out to seek those
who have neither head nor heart for
the unwritten pathos of others. Max
ing friends is well enough in its place
and when people are thrown together
Carefully they should pick their bos-
ON friends if they regard having
a,eace and good viii instead of getting
into trouble in the future. Gladly turn
to those you have met whom you can
learn to love better, who improve on
acquaintance, who look on the bright
side with you instead Of constantly
presenting unfavorable predictions, if
you would be happy.
L
i Miss Libbey's replies to your letters.
Correct name and address must be
/ given to insure attention, not to print.
Use ink. Write short letters, only on
one side of paper. Address Miss Lib
hey, 916 President Street, Brooklyn
NY.
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What Ought She to Say?
Dear Miss Libbey: Two of US girls
are so interested we ask your advice
What answer is a girl to give a boy
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