Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-25

Dear Madam-As a reader of
your column, I would like to ask
your opinion. Do you believe that
true friendship exists among wom-
en-?
IT have few friends, because most
of the girls I went to school with
have now grown UP and turned to
frivolity. and the others are in
position where they can afford things
which 1 cannot, and, truthfully
speaking, about which 1 do not care,
such as lots of clothes. etc. am
satisfied with having plain things
and only those which 1 need.
| There is one girl 1 know and
esteem very highly, but another girl
of the same age as ourselves-she
. is not yet twenty-one-is more of
coquette than l would care to be
with. as I dislike any form of CO.
quetry. Several times lately when
the three of us have had an ap-
pointment, the other two have gone
away without saying a word to me,
and when would call for them l
would find that they had gone with
out leaving even a message. This
makes me very unhappy. and l often
think l will never have faith in
friendship again.
Il have no boy friends, although
| would like to meet some nice young
men, but l do not have the oppor-
tunity, and l do not suppose they
are any trueS in their friendships
Trusting you will tell me what
you think on this subject,
Il am respectfully. L. e.
You poor child! If l were only
a fair godmother how gladly would
l appear before you. touch a pump
kin with my magic wand. turn 1t
into a coach and whisk you off to the
ball to dance with the prince. You
are like a pendulum which has
swung too far in one direction. You
need all the amusement and recrea-
ton you can get.
The very best advice I can give
you is to quote Professor William
James to you, only l can't do it
accurately, because 1 haven't the
book at hand. But, anyway, he said
something somewhere about every
one needing a moral vacation now
and then. No one can be frightfully
good all the time without becomlns
a tiresome prig, and you surely
don't want to be that.
And don't ignore frivolity too
much. It's the leaven of life. "A
little nonsense now and then is rel
ished by the wisest men"-I may
say especially by the wisest men.
Their fondness for nonsense is usu-
| ally in proportion to their wisdom.
| Why, you are only twenty-one.
And twenty-one was never in
tended to be staid. Youth turns
naturally to laughter and nonsense
and frivolity and pretty things. And
because you are inclined to frown
on these things is PROBABLY the rea-
son that your friends of the same
age as yourself break their engage
ment with you.
| Do you really mean to say that
you are content with plain things
and only those which you need!"
do not say, of course, that you are
wilfully deceiving me, but 1 wonder
If you are not unwittingly deceiv-
ing yourself. 1t is not in the heart
of woman to be insensible to the
lure of pretty clothes. Only recently
saw a certain faraway, absorbed
look in the eyes of sister woman.
When anyone spoke to her she came
to with start.
1T is either a man or a new
hat" I said to myself. Time will
tell"
For the next day or two she
seemed worried and anxious; then
she suddenly appeared light of step.
a gay, confident gleam in her eyes,
and-an adorable hat on her head.
! IT'S been awful" she confided.
IT had to go past that shop three
| times a day. and they wouldn't take
this bonnet out of the window To-
day | couldn't resist any longer. 1
| fell for it."
A warm glow of sympathy flooded
my being. I've been going
through the same soul struggle" /
confessed. IT'S been a pair of shoe
buckles with me-
And yet you ask, Can there be
Woman's Danger Period