The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-12
Pluck VIII
Help Girls
Win Friends
BY MARTHA LEE

Any one who has gone to a
strange town to work knows the
tragedy of loneliness that results.
1t is hard enough for a boy, who
has an infinite number of ways of
becoming acquainted with people.
For girl, it is a nearly hopeless
thing.
A girl, going to a town where she
knows no one, of course will become
acquainted with the people with
whom she works. Sometimes these
people are human enough to rea-
lie the girls loneliness, but more
often they are too pre-occupied with
their own affairs to bother much
about it.
From the looks of things. the adj
vice to lonesome girls to look to
other girls for help, for their lonely
hour seems to be outmoded. One girl
is Just about as tight as the next,
when it comes to introducing other
girls to her boy friends.
More Crowded Conditions
With the way things are now,
most young people seek their
amusement outside the home. The
days of taffy pulls, popcorn parties
and spelling bees have given way
to the movie, public dances, and
other forms of modern amusement
too numerous to mention.
When young people have to
leave their homes for amusement,
it means the spending of money
and an extra person can not be
afforded. This is why the girl who
looks to her girl friends for social
aid is up against hopeless job.
Dear Martha Lee-More than year
ago I came to town, stranger, to work
because my home tomn was too small to
afford me much opportunity to progress.
I knew no one. Of course I was fright
fully lonesome. I work in a good sized
office, where there are quite few girls.
Most of the Jobs, in fact, with the ex-
ception of the executive positions, are
held by girls.
I am fairly attractive, wear nice neat
clothes, am alert enough mentally that
know I must be at least as interesting
as the average, but Miss Lee, never
have q date!
Wants Beau
I have become acquainted quite well
with several of the girls, and they are
very nice to me, and on the nights when
they do not have dates. we often go to
shows together. But not one of them
have offered to introduce me to any of
their boy friends. do not have a chance
to meet boys my own age or in my own
financial and social position.
Now 1 want to have a beau too. I love
to dance and go places. I do go to a
few shows, but on my salary, can not
afford much amusement, and besides, 7
miss the companionship of boys my own
age Is there any way I could become
acquainted with some boys here in town?
LONELY
Generally speaking, meeting nice
boys and having dates with them
is one of the things determined
young person can earn, just as she
can earn business advancement by
keeping her eyes wide open. You
had sense enough to get away from
your home town because it did not
offer you much in the way of adj
vancement along a business line.
Surely if you have enough sense
and initiative to do that, you also
have enough to make a definite
point of going the places where
boys and girls of your own stand
ing are apt to congregate. insist
one of the best and safest places
to make reliable friendships is
through the churches.
Loneliness Is Touching
These other girls you mention.
your business acquaintance, had to
go through the same process OF &C
quaintance making before they
earned their beaux. You can not
blame them for not wanting to ex-
pose them to the charms of another
girl who may prove more attractive.
And there is something so touching
about a lonely young girl.
1t probably is self-protection as
much as anything else, that keeps
them from including you in their
parties. Besides, generally speak
ing, boys hate the idea Of taking
the responsibility of getting another
boy for a girl friend of their girl
friend. If you show as much spunk
in this case as you did in your bust
ness career, you ought to come out
all right.