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Every bit of your spare time is too much time to spend concentrating on yourself. In fact, such preoccupation with self isn't good. A less lonely and more profitable plan would be to get out and do things, meet new people and gather new ideas so you'll emerge from your experiences a more interesting person. If you struggle with words over a typewriter all day, hie yourself over to the golf links or the tennis courts. There's nothing a man likes more than a good competitive game. And there's nothing he likes less than finding himself in a game of doubles with a gal who doesn't know a serve from her backhand. If you know the rudiments of the sport and only need practice, he '1.1 love teaching you the fine points. Men, after all, are the more active sex and when they do come back you're certain to find them out. playing tennis or skating, sailing or bowling anyplace but at home with an emery board and a pair of cuticle clippers. This doesn't mean that if you're a fireside sitter you should rush to the nearest ski slope and learn a slalom from a schuss. If you like the book-in-hand and the fireside glow, the man for you probably will like that, too. So take a course in literature. The people you meet taking such a course will 'be just the kind of people you'll like and who will like you. Whatever you do, once you really get interested in something, you'll never complain again as some girls do that men scare you to death, or that you don't know what you could ever say to them. Men are people, too, you know. And if you discover, on the dance floor, that tennis is his pet passion, all you have to do is ask him which technique he thinks best. That ' 11 keep him going for at least a half hour and by that (Continued on page 87) If you run when a boy comes near you it's because you haven’t stopped — to think Put yourself in mothballs for the duration and he’ll come home — to somebody else 71