Everybody's Lonesome by LAUGHLIN, Clara E.

Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothers advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches Mary Alice a little homemade magic and the one great Secret that will put her at ease with other people. How can Mary Alice learn to use these gifts to bring happiness into her own life and other lives? Although this charming novelette is subtitled A True Fairy Story, it reveals that most of the magic in life can be found within ourselves. (Introduction by Jan MacGillivray)