The Washington times., 1928-11-24
Noted Authority
On a Serious
Subject
By Beatrice Fairfax
An Authority on Problems Of Love
and Marriage

6GTTOLIDAYS are the loneliest
n days of the year for girl
away from home''
Al young girl made this remark
TO her hostess. Then she added.
smiling her gratitude: But you
have made this Thanksgiving
wonderful by inviting me to your
home for dinner"
Like thousands of other young
men and girls, Betty, as I shall
call her, had come hundreds of
miles from her home to the
metropolis. believing opportuni-
ties for work are in proportion to
the bigness of the town.
Betty found secretarial posi-
fion and made good. But because
she was a little tinid she made
friends slowly How she dreaded
her first Thanksgiving away from
home. Then came the invitation
from a girl at the office whom
Betty really liked.
With box of caIldy-for she
wished 10 express her gratitude
In some tangible way-Betty pre-.
scented herself and was ioyousIy
made one of the family party.
How delicious that dinner tasted,
from oyster-stuffed turkey through
the homemade pumpkin pie!
Later came jolly hour or two
by the CRATE fire, chatting and
listening at intervals to the radio
report of the football game at
the college from which her hos
tess brother had<just graduated.
He it was who walked with Betty
to the subway when dusk began
TO lengthen the shadows of the
crisp Autumn day.
And so an invitation to q lonely
girl to a hospitable home for
Thanksgiving proved, IN its influ-
ence, far more than the kindly
but unimportant incident It might
seem. For it gave that girl
new courage. breaking the spell
OF home-sick loneliness which
gripped her, and opening the way
TO new friendships.
You may be sure Dan Cupid,
demurely disguised. was present
ut the first Thanksgiving feast Of
our Pilgrim fathers and mothers
and found ways to convey mes
sages from eyes to eyes and heart
to heart. Romance viii be equal
ly rampant this Thanksgiving at
every football game and every
home celebration and party.
It Is wise as well as pleasant to
share Thanksgiving blessings, for
experience proves that ''ceasing
TO give. we cease to have, such Is
the law of love-
Thousands of young people viii
De TAR away from home and
among strangers next Thursday.
Other thousands, although with
the crowd" may be sad because
separated from the dearest one.
May it not prove worth. while,
then, to consider the problem
loneliness presents?
II you must be alone next
Thursday, without a romantic joy
TO compensate for lack of affec.
tionate companionship, what is
the way to escape loneliness:
Long before I had begun giving
advice, someone gave me bit
which has always worked well
when applied 1t: IF you are un-
happy, do something for some
body quick.''
This is a formula sfor Thanks
giving happiness. You can always
be neighborly, even il it only
means gift of lollypops to a
ragged unchin outside your door,
saucer of cream for the alley cat,
bread crumbs for the sparrows.
Nancy tried this means of for.
getting Her funds were low. She .
had opened the season in the
chorus of a musical comedy
(which. after weeks of rehearsal
without pay. and brief struggle
Tor existence, closed. The sea-
son was dull. Nothing else was
forthcoming. :.
These thoughts ran through
Nancy's head as she sat on
park bench near her hotel and
fed crumbs to the birds
The birds twittered cheerily, the
squirrels were saucy and content.
But Nancy's melancholy mood per-
sisted. What matter though the
sky was heavenly blue, the fall
ing, browning leaves exquisite
without a friend to share the
beauty! Just as the tears began
to splash Nancy looked up-of
all things!-into Franks dear,
long-familiar face.
He had come a thousand miles
to ask her again to marry him
and not finding her at home de-
cided to wait in the park. So
Franks seventh proposal to Nancy
was successful, and since wedding
licenses are not to be had on
Thanksgiving. the next day found
the two. blissfully happy, newly
wed. on the way home.
To be thankful is to be hannv
Everyone has something to be
thankful for.
May every day he Thanksgiving
Day for you and him!