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By Jean Kinkead
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Tongue-tied at strategic moments? Or worse, a nonsensical babbler? You needn't be any more!
■ Making with the right words comes awfully hard to some of us. Oh, we speak the language all right; it's not that. It's coping with difficult situations— like accepting a compliment or dishing one out; like brushing off a persistent beau without crushing same; like disagreeing with someone violently but with dignity. How can you possibly be smooth when you keep finding yourself speechless at crucial moments, or worse still, uttering all the wrong noises? That's right, joe, you can't, but take heart. Here are some bright, right words for you to study and remember.
"Gee You're Beautiful!" Maybe he won't say it in so many words. More likely it'll come out, "Whee, lookit you!" Anyway, sugar, it's a compliment, and it's your cue to be pleased. If you get flustered and
fluttery, saying, "My hair never looked worse," or "What? In this old bag?" you'll embarrass him to death, and he'll wind up thinking you don't look so hot at that. Next time he says something sweet, beam at him and say, "There you go stealing my line. I was just thinking how wonderful you look," or "I don't believe it, but I love it," or just plain, "Gosh, thank you, Bill."
The guys like a kind word too now and then, so don't forget to say approving things about new jackets, new overcoats, even a new hair-cut, if you can, in conscience. Don't lay it on; just let it go at, "Mmm, mad for the new coat," or— unfeminine, but okay nonetheless— give them the old double whistle.
/ Disagree: It starts off just plain chit-chat with you and Jane and Dot, but somehow (Continued on page 68)