Evening star., 1936-09-17
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Dorothy Dix Says
One of the Best Places to Meet Men Is in
the Business World.

They know that 1t takeS wild horses
to drag a man to a tea, that Summer
resorts and Winter resorts are ADAM
less Edens, and that the happy hunt
ing ground for husbands Is to be
found in Offices.
If you want to learn to dance better
and cannot afford a teacher, practice
your steps with some friend who is
a good dancer. That's easy. But as
to how to win boy on whom you
have failed to make an impression,
that's a different story. Love comes
and goes as it will and none of us
knows why or has the power to COM
pei it. The only thing you can do IS
to throw yourself in the young mans
way as often as you can without arous-
ing his suspicious that you have
marked him for your own and are in
hot pursuit of him, and try to make
yourself as interesting and agreeable
to him as possible. Find out his taste
in women and then try to be it.
NEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a
~ boy Of IA. My parents think that
am not doing my work at school be-
cause 1 was once suspended and be-
cause I act silly at home. They say
that is how I do at school and when
I try to tell them differently they
won't give me a chance to explain.
This gets on my nerves. At school
I do try to do my best and to get
good grades, but my parents keep
| discouraging me so much that some
times I think about running away
from home. Please give me your ad-
vice. A FRIEND IN NEED.
Answer-My first bit of advice is to
urge you not to run away from home,
That wouldn't solve your problem. It
would only make a bad matter worse.
1t would only make tramp Of you and
cut you off from an education and all
the advantages there are in having
family and home for background.
| A ND believe me, son, that hard as
your parents are on you, they are
not so hard as the world would be.
Their fault-finding, nagging and lack
of understanding is fulsome f1attery
and tender consideration compared
with what you would get from your
boss if you started out to make your
own living.
Just take it on the chin and re-
member that the reason your parents
are so critical of everything you do is
because they love you so much and
are anxious for you to make something
of yourself.
But I wish that I could say some
thing that would make fathers and
mothers understand that praise is far
more efficacious than blame in dealing
with children, and that if they want
to inspire them to great achievements
they must make the youngsters feel
that they believe in them and expect
much of them.
CHILDREN are very susceptible to
f1attery and they will try to live
up to your ideals. Compliment a boy
on his good manners and you can turn
him into a Chesterfield. Boast about
Johnny's marks at school and he will
top his grade. But if you are always
bereating boy for his rudeness he
will take pride in being a boor. II
you are always complaining about his
not studying he will say what's the use
and slack down to the bottom Of his
class.
Many boy is a failure In life be-
cause his parents were always telling
him that he was no good. Many
boy becomes hoodlum and gangSter
because his parents were always say
ing how bad he was and they didn't
know what they could do with him
and he felt he had to live up to his
reputation of being tough.
1t is a terrible thing for parents to
discourage their children. Oftener
than they know they put out the fire
of ambition on the altar of the boys
soul. DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright. 1936,)