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Here's a group which finds no time
to tramp along that lonesome road.
"Just decide what things you
most enjoy and do them.
"I figure how lucky I am to
have free time and so many en
joyable things to do with it. My
choices are reading, listening to
music, seeing places, and watch
ing people. I can't keep up with
all the things I want to do.
"Hobbies? No, thanks. A hobby
means that the people I'd meet
would all be talking about the
same thing. Clubs and lodges? No.
What I value is free time, and I
don't want anybody telling me
where to be Tuesday at 8 p.m."
On the other hand, planning
activities at least three days ahead
is the antidote for lonesomeness
prescribed by May Jerome, left
alone by the death of her father
from whom she had always been
inseparable. "At first, it seemed
that I should try to keep Dad out
of my mind entirely," she relates.
"But I finally discovered that if
you've lost someone by death, the
way out of sorrow is to bring your
thoughts out in the open.
"Now, instead of crowding Dad
out of my life by not thinking
of him at all, I talk about him
constantly and cheerfully. I re
member the things I helped him
find pleasure in. I think how
glad I am that he was relieved
of suffering and that I was here
when he needed me.
"Of course, I also try to
appreciate my neighbors and my
growing plants and my dog and
cat who seem to make a special
effort to show me their affection."
There are so many ways to fill
your mind with thoughts!
Deana Costello, who also lost
a loved one, found her escape
in expressing a very unusual
talent. "I remember my mother
saying I seemed to have a ca
pacity for helping people see
their way through trouble, so I
decided I'd occupy myself with
kindness and go looking for
people who seemed to need it."
"This is how I met a lady whose
life I have changed until we are
hoth almost happy again. After I
had sat on the other end of the
park bench from her for a while,
I remarked that Spring with its
budding leaves seemed to make a
sort of music. I knew she heard
no music, but was glad to talk.
"Now we meet there every day.
She isn't distressed about her
problems any more. Most im
portant of all, now I know that
anyone can banish his own lone
someness if he will do something
to banish others' loneliness."
Frank Hovey also was what you
might call a collector of people.
Night clerk of a Hollywood hotel,
he was a blunt individual with a
quiet manner and reserved smile.
He cared nothing about spending
money, wasn't vacation-minded,
had no family or close friends
until he thought of "the game"!
People who knew Hovey won
dered why he suddenly seemed
to enjoy life so much and was so
eager to go places and do things.
Suddenly, instead of sitting on
the side lines of life, he'd call a
druggist to open his store on Sun
day and apply a mustard plaster;
ask a lunch-counter proprietress
if she'd trust him for a meal, and
give his place in a theater box
office line to the lady behind him
just to see if she'd say "thank
you." When one of these people
came through with a satisfactory
performance, Hovey added an
other name to a list of thousand
dollar bequests in his will.
When he died, his funeral was
not one of those pathetically
meager farewells usually accorded
a man without a family. On that
day, Frank Hovey became a man
with a family; and his grave is
kept bright with flowers placed
there by affectionate hands.
Little Charlie Massa is only 10
years old and hasn't had time to
absorb the philosophic attitudes
life has forced on many of us, but
he too has faced loneliness and
found ways to overcome it. "Take
the time I was sick in bed," he re
calls. 'The way I didn't get lone
some was to pretend to go down
town every half hour and buy a pet
dog and get a different kind every
time and bring him home and
teach him tricks for a dog circus.
"Another thing people can do
when they feel lonesome is count
their money. When I had $5, it
took me a whole day to count it,
and that's good reason to save.
"I can tell anybody how to go
out and make some friends,"
Charlie continued. "If you have a
nickel, it's easy. Just say, 'Hello,
kid. Come on to the store and
we'll spend my money.' "
Little Charlie had turned to
leave when suddenly he came
back to provide the one prescrip
tion nobody had mentioned:
"Another thing, Dixie, we could
tell people to go to church. That's
one sure way not to be lonesome."
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