Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — To Correct Bashfulness. [ARTICLE]

To Correct Bashfulness.

“The bashful young girl must stop thinking about herself,*’ writes Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladles’ Homo Journal. “I beard the other day of a man, a college student, who went to visit bis sister, a college student also. He was the one mau, as It happened. In the dining room with five hundred girls, and he bad occasion to cross the room with their bright eyes beaming on him with curiosity and interest Said my Informant: ‘The boy was completely at his ease. You would have thought his sister the only girl present.’ Evidently the young man’s mother had brought him up in a sensible way and he was free from that bane of comfort, self-consciousness. It is bard for a very diffident person tn be free from awkwardness, and very acute distress and much humiliation may be the results of an extreme shyness. Try not to think bow you look, what impression you are making, what sort of gown you have on. Do not let your mind dwell on yourself, but think of what you are to do, and of making others pleased and happy. Once you are free from self-conscloL'a-neaa, bashfulness, will trouble you no more.” James Wbltcoinb Riley, when ing of bis nationality recently, said: “I’m Irish from the word go. 1 show It In mytastes, I show It in my face, and I show It in my name. Whoever heard of a man who wns not Irish doing business at the old stand under the name of Riley F