Evening star., 1926-10-12
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Get ting Your Friends Together

There is certain type of girl who's
| never happy unless she's having her
| best friends meet each other. She
| dolizes one friend-and she does so
| want her old pal to meet the new
conner.
! She plans .excitedly for a delight
| full l~-meeting-tust chummy little
| luncheon of three-and confidently
! watches for the two to fall in each
! others arms. Very likely they do
nothing Of the sort. Their reaction
| is most likely just the opposite of
what she's hoped for.
| 1t makes her misera BILE. She's ut
! terly broken up over the failure of
| her plans She does want these two
dear ones of hers to grow to love
! each other And their active antag-
onisms seems to spoil everything for
! her.
But she must snap out of this
attitude. She mustn't let her friends
inability to get along worry her in
the slightest. She must be warned
against further attempts to unite all
her friends into one chummy little
club. It can't DO done.
Joan. we will say likes Cecilia be
cause she's odd, different. But Joan
old pal. Natalie. being the most con
ventional type in the world. simply
detested the great Cecilia when she
met her-couldn't for the life or her
understand what Joan had been raw
ing about all this time.
Joan did everything to make the
two like each other. In the end she
almost succeeded In breaking up her
own friendship with the two girls.
For she took the rather absurd att1-
tude that Natalie was at fault in not
liking c.: that II she really tried
she would have adored her just as
loan did. Natalie protested Wig
orously that she couldn't see little
G. for the tall trees. and Joan was
terribly hurt.
1t seemed to her that Natalie was
being deliberately perverse-just turn
ing against this delightful friend OF
hers to annoy her. She didn't for
minute see Natalie's point of view
couldn't understand that the more
conventional girl was bored and an
moved by C's strange words and ac-
tions. 1t never occurred TO her that
every one wouldn't like her friend.
So she quarreled with Natalie.
Which was very stupid and un-
wise of her. She should, after the
one unsuccessful attempt, have given
up the idea entirely. She should nave
appreciated the fact that the two
we're not meant to be friends. She
should have blamed no one for this
failure. Dozens Of people in this
world are just made not to get along
with each other.
The girl who Is constantly trying
TO bring her loved ones together-
to make them love each other-who
persists in her attempts long after
it Is apparent that nothing can come
Of it's in danger Of spelling her
own relations with those she seeks
to unite. If your friends don't want
to like each other, don't attempt 10
force them to be pals.
Keep them apart. Have lr1enoly
relations with each of them. No need
for you o~feel hurt and distressed
because their tastes are not the same
as YOURS. Be thankful that you en-
jov the society of each of them. After
you've found out the impossibility of
interesting them In each other give
up the try. 1t isn't worth the strug-
gle.
Mimi will be glad to answer any
INQUIRIES directed to this paper, pro-
vided a stamped, addressed envelope
is inclosed. Also, she will be glad to
send Food for Conversation" and
How to Overcome Self-Consicious-
ness"
(copyriKht. 1926l