Evening star., 1935-11-01
Canned and Readyade Foods Aid chenete Housekeep
Joyful Noise
Helps One to
Gain Friends
Girl Who Lives in the
Open Spaces Gives
Her Testimony.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

DI ANOELo 4
ECENTLY I received q charming
~ letter from a high school girl
who lives in the wide open spaces
of the West. Here it Is:
Hello. Mr.. Patri. You didn't know
I was your friend. did you? But
am, and through you I want to help
all young people to be happy and
have friends. I'm lacky. I guess, be-
cause seem to have everything that
others want and don't know how to
get. am not one of those who love
TO blow their own horn, but I have
to tell you everything, so that you
will not misunderstood.
IT am Is. I reached that ripe old
age two months ago. I am smart In
school. My average last year was
four AS and one B plus. give read
ings, play the piano, the violin, the
banjo and the uke. I draw some.
! love to be in plays. talk well,
skate, swim, play tennis, basket ball.
I have even won prizes for poems
and stories have written.
II have friends. Lots Of them. Not
only young people my own age, but
older ones. Last Summer was voted
the towns most popular girl. I've
been in love. still am, to be sure;
but this time am really in love with
the right person. I think the world
and all of him and he thinks the
same of me. We're thinking Of get
ting married some day.
IT am not pretty. My family doesn't
have money. I'm not an only child
who gets everything she wants. I
have plenty of brothers and sisters.
What I want to say is that I am
not perfect. But I don't need these
things. I have made friends without
them. and what I have done others
can do. I merely want to tell the
boys and girls they can make friends
without these things, or, rather, /
want you to tell them for me.
Tell them to grin and sing. 1t will
depend upon the type of person they
are whether or not they will grin or
smile, but tell them to do one or the
other or both. If they can't sing, tell
them to do what the Bible says, make
a joyful noise Tell them they must
be natural Don't initiate. That's
fatal. Tell them to speak to every
one, even those they don't like.
should say especially those they don't
like. 1t will work. Life isn't square
deal. It's oblong and twisted at times.
You must give more than you take
and do 1t cheerfully. Tell them to
like people and to cultivate the art
Of saying yes That's everybody's
problem more or less. It's so hard to
say yes It's easy to say mo- Even
small children do that. I know my
little brother does. He says mo- even
when he means yes Lots of young
people are just like my baby brother.
They haven't grown up. Tell them
to say yes to learn to agree with peo-
pie. That means they are willing to
60 along and they'll be accepted as
one of the gang.
TELL them to cultivate their church
acquaintances. I'm not so good when
1t comes to being mothers little angel,
but some of my best friends are those
I found in the church. Somehow
praying together seems to have the
same effect as saying yes does.
Tell them. above all, to keep their
chins up and to smile, and If they
can't sing, to whistle through their
teeth. Yours, CAROLINE"
I find 1t hard to define charm, but
know it when I see 1t. Caroline has
1t. May all the young people who are
self-conscious get from her a bit of
that contagious quality that makes
friends and keeps them.
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