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There's a lift in this frank advice from a woman of great understanding
EAR MISS COLBERT:
I’m in love with a sailor who is stationed at present in the South Pacific. I write to him often, although I’ve never had a real date with him. You see, I’ve known him all my life and I’ve spent a lot of time with his family and his younger sister who is my chum.
I know it’s the real thing for me, but I don’t know how he feels toward me. He is very nice and sweet and writes wonderful letters, but I don’t know whether that means anything. He is coming home soon, so I’ll be able to find out where I stand. I’m 19 and I don’t want to waste my best years waiting to see if he loves me.
Can you tell me two things, Miss Colbert, since I’ve told you all about it? Can you give me a rule of finding out if he loves me? And if he doesn’t love me, can you tell me how to make him love me?
Prudence C.
Dear Prudence:
It isn’t possible to tell one person
how to make another love her. However, I can tell you hotv I think you should treat your sailor when he comes home. Such treatment might bring the result you desire. Remember that he is coming back with unpleasant memories. He is looking for the home he left and the associates he had before the war. Through the medium of the letters you have exchanged, he naturally is going to be more friendly to you than before.
How fortunate for you that you are a part of his family. See that he has fun while he is home. Watch carefully that attentions he doesn’t want are not forced upon him. Give him peace, quiet and understanding. Be genuine in your consideration of him and give careful thought to his pleasures. If his former feeling for you has ripened into love, he will declare it, but nothing on earth can force a man to propose when he doesn’t want to. I have a hunch that he may if you give him the attention that he wants and needs right now.
.1 know that you don’t want to spend your life waiting for him to declare his love. Let him decide. It will be better for you both and I have a
feeling he will pop the question.
Claudette Colbert.
Dear Miss Colbert:
First of ail I would like to have you read the two enclosed letters from my wife.
Dearest David:
As you see, I’m at home again.
I arrived this morning (Saturday) very tired, but glad to be back here. I’m going back to work tonight. Seems years since I’ve worked, I forgot my job so completely while I was with you.
Honey, I’ve seen George and told him that there is no hope for him. I’m still all mixed up myself, but I was careful to hide that from him. He believed me completely when I told him no one could ever take your place. He is now working in a different department, so I p will never see him at work. Also m since I’m not going to any more M of the swing dances, I’ll never see him socially.
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