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E-98, Rochester 4, N. Y. If You Want to Be Charming ( Continued from page 73) I have the opinions of some of the best career counselors in the country to back me up. We all have our share of the world’s work to do. And thank heaven for that. I know a few parasites, and their misery approaches desperation. But there are millions of kinds of jobs, and of this vast well of opportunity there must be at least one which would fit everyone of you. Why do so many young people take the first job that comes along and get stuck with it? A lot of girls, I think, secretly feel that “Any old job will do until I get married,” and then get so acidulous and tense doing work they hate that they lose all the natural magnetism which attracts the opposite sex. Young men accept “temporary” dull jobs, then take on such heavy responsibilities they dare not risk a change. Others plead grim necessity, or lack of training in the thing they would like to do. But there are right courses, free ones, and free vocational advice clinics, if you really want to get out of your rut. Weight Deductions: A young wife writes that, concerned over a rapidly expanding derriere, she asked her doctor for advice. He put her on a stringent diet, which she followed faithfully. Now, three months later, the unsightly hips are gone, but so, alas, are two inches from her once perfect bust. She also has some problems: unattractively bony shoulders and hollows in her cheeks which she says make her look old and ill. “What now?” she asked the doctor. “You American women have a phobia about figure,” he exploded. “First you want to get so skinny that you could just melt away, and then you say, ‘But I don’t want to be bony.’ Ach!” I have no medical degrees, but I would argue with his original advice. Diet certainly is the answer for girls who are just plain fat. But when a girl with an otherwise good figure wants to reduce one unsightly spot, then I’d think that localized exercise would do the trick without any unpleasant side results. Hips too big? My girl, get down on the floor and roll. Tummy out of hand? Lie on the floor and elevate your legs, first alternately and, when your abdominal muscles can take it, both at once, higher and higher each day, and bring them down slowly, counting, slowly, to ten, to twenty, to thirty. You can take it. Upper arms? Stand facing a wall, your hands pointing inward, elbows bent. Push away until your arms are straight. Feel the stretch. Keep the tension. Repeat only as often as you can do the exercise without fatigue. Then rest. Remember that striving for a good figure is not vanity but a friendly gesture. It’s your way of saying, “I want to be attractive. I want to be nice to have around.” Let’s Face It: Through some perversity of nature the adolescent years and skin problems seem to be inseparable. I know we’ve talked about this a lot before, but since the anguish about pimples, blackheads, acne, the whole dreary catalog of teen-age tortures is so general I’d like to hammer away at it again. There are three approaches to the skin problem: Internal, external, psychological. Internal correctives include policing your diet: more milk, more fruit and green vegetables, liberal proteins — meats, fish, chicken, cheese, eggs. And, sorry, girls, almost no sweets or starches until this battle is won. Also important internally is the amount of fresh air you breathe — get out in the open and move around until your whole body breathes! Viveca Lindfors, who has the most beautiful skin I’ve ever seen in my life — is up at seven every day. She swims the cold Pacific before breakfast (every day of the year!). She walks, at least two miles, on the beach every day. She’s so full of good, pure oxygen you’d think she’d inflate. Now for number two in the list of correctives, the external: While the right food and sufficient exercise in the open air are getting their licks in at your innards, there are some surface tricks that will speed the job along. The first external essential is, of course, cleanliness. Soap and water and friction are the chief ingredients. One of our readers who, bless her, is recovering from polio in a hospital in the East, wrote me that she had suffered agonies with acne before she got sick, but that, with the help and counsel of a friendly nurse, she will go home with an absolutely flawless complexion. The nurse’s secret was a complexion brush, which she used with a mild soap and plenty of warm water, both morning and night. I would suspect that the hospital’s scientifically trained dieticians were equally helpful to our convalescent friend. And how about number three — the psychological factor? Well, kids, the truth is that adolescent skin eruptions are somehow related to the teen-agers’ struggle to grow up, to pass from the dependence of childhood into a stand-on-your-feet maturity. That’s a problem that every one of us has to live through and resolve for herself. I’m certainly not saying it’s easy, but look around you — somehow or other a lot of people have managed. Good luck! Now then, a lot of you who write me moan, “How do I get rid of freckles?” This is a tough one for me. I happen to like freckles — which is fortunate, since I have my share. There’s something young, healthy and outdoorsy about freckles, I think, which is peculiarly American. Doris Day has so many and such determined freckles that even heavy screen make-up couldn’t hide them. So did Warner Brothers fire her? On the contrary. “The freckles are charming,” they said. “Skip the make-up. Let them show.” Welcome Strangers: A letter before me is from a young matron who recently moved with her husband to a new city. “We knew making friends would be difficult and that largely it would be up to us,” she writes. They didn’t wait for invitations, but broke the ice themselves by inviting their new acquaintances — business associates and neighbors — to their heme. “Nobody declined our invitations,” the perplexed young woman says. “They not only came, but they stayed late and seemed to have fun. But not once did we hear another word socially from any of them." This kind of rudeness is common practice, I’m afraid. People are busy. They’ll get around to returning the hospitality one day, but in the meantime how are the newcomers to know that they are accepted? It isn’t necessary to plan a dinner party right away to prove to a stranger in your midst that he’s welcome. A little note or just a friendly “thank you” phone call would be almost as effective. We want to be charming, it says here — but do we? Sometimes, I think, we hustling, bustling Americans find charm elusive because we don’t take time for common courtesy. The End