Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

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invited me. Now I am planning a picnic for the girls in my class. Pat has not been invited. Pat’s mother telephoned my mother and wanted to know why her daughter had been left out. Although Pat and I aren’t very good friends and none of my gang likes her, do you think I should invite her to come to my parties just to keep peace between our mothers? Cynthia B. For some reason there are many mothers in the world who are not content to keep hands off their daughters’’ social lives. I think Fat’s mother should he ashamed to interfere in school-girl affairs. However, since she makes your mother unhappy, surely your mother’s comfort is important enough to you so that you can set aside your true feeling and invite Fat to the party. Furthermore, I know you will treat Pal with the cordiality becoming to you as a hostess, and refrain from discussing this with your friends. In years to come you will find that there will he many times when you must invite people to social gatherings in order to spare the feelings of someone who is dear to you. It may annoy you at the time, hut it will help you to develop a strong character. Claudette Colbert Dear Miss Colbert: I am sixteen and a junior in high school. Practically all the girls at school smoke, and one is considered unpopular if one doesn’t smoke. Since I want to be popular, I have taken up the habit. One day a friend of my mother’s saw me smoking and quickly telephoned my mother to tell her. When Mother asked me about it I lied. She believed me until she found a pack of cigarettes in my possession. Now Mother does not trust me in the least. I am very unhappy about this, as I want her to regain her faith in me and yet I don’t want to be unpopular in school. Toni L. Since your mother disapproves of your smoking II certainly believe that you should abandon the habit. It is far more important for you to maintain your mother’s faith than to impress your school friends with your inclination to follow willy-nilly in the footsteps of others, l know some charming, sophisticated and very smart women who have never smoked. It hasn’t hurt their popularity in the least. Claudette Colbert What makes Mr. L. W. (Long Winter) Heavies slightly 'pixilated’? The American Housekeeper knows. Fels-Naptha Soap is back on her grocer’s shelves. Here is real proof that 'days of doing without’ are past and gone. Once more the words ’clean’ and 'white’ apply to every washday— not just the times when she was lucky enough to find Fels-Naptha. Have you a problem which s»*ms to have no solution? Would you like the thoughtful advice of Claudette CofLert ? If you would, write to her in care of Photoplay, 321 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, and if Miss Colbert feels that your problem is of general interest, she’ll consider answering it here. Names and addresses will be held confidential for your protection. Now she can use Fels-Naptha Soap wherever its gentle, thorough action is needed. Now she can get out all the dirt, quickly and safely. Now she can have Fels-Naptha Soap whenever she wants it. And so can you! Fels-Naptha Soap BAN/SHES TATTLE-TALE GRAY