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Show Dear .Reader: This is your corner. All questions submitted will be cheerfully cheer-fully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, but will be sent if a self-addressed, stamped envelope accompanies the request. Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany each letter or no reply can be made. All communications are held strictly confidential. In requesting; poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or the name of the author is necessary in order to find them. Please send stamped, addressed envelope also with these requests, so they may be forwarded directly to you. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake CAtv. TTbih Dear Miss Brooks: Your corner has helped me in many ways, but as yet I have never written', to you. There are a few questions-which questions-which I would like you to answer if. you will. (1) Is it proper to chew gum. at dances or in any other public place? (2) If there is an entertainment in your home town is it proper to go elsewhere else-where to a similar entertainment?" Thanking you in advance. I remain, BROWS EYES, Idaho. Chewing gum in any public place is. vulgar, Brown Eyes. If one wishes to chew gum it should be done in the privacy of one's home or better still, room. (2) It would siiow more loyalty to your home town, to attend the entertainment enter-tainment given- there, but circumstances circum-stances might make it all right to go to the one out of town. You can better-judge better-judge of that than I can. Dear Hiss Brooks: We have been reading the letters In your corner and we enjoy them. May we join? We want to ask you a few-questions. few-questions. (1) Is it proper for a boy to kiss a girl after taking her some place? (2) Is it proper for girls of 14 and 16 to go with boys? (3) Should a boy and a girl go any place without other people? (4) Should a girl go car riding with a boy after a short acquaintance? Thanking you in advance ad-vance and wishing you success. METTA and JAZZ, Idaho. Yes, surely, you may join. (1 " Hardly proper, girls, but quite a popular pop-ular pastime It seems. (2) I do not think a girl of fourteen should be going go-ing out with boys. It Is all right for a girl -of sixteen to go occasionally. ''.) Not at the age you mention. (4) No. Why? Just read the papers, dear. Tnis question is answered in some way in the daily papers nearly every day terrible accidents, kidnappings, etc., etc. Please don't do It. You are ever so welcome. Dear Miss Brooks: I would greatly appreciate It if you would send me or print the song, "There's a Rose In Old Erin That's Blooming for Me." (1) When a girl first moves to a strange city unknown, how can she make friends? (2) If a boy you dislike asks you to attend a public gathering with him and you don't want to go, how shall you tell him? I would like to ask you some more questions but as two is the limit I will close hoping I am not too much bother. Sincerely, A CURIOUS GIRL, Utah. If the song Is sent in, or I can locate-a locate-a copy, you shall have it, of course. (1 About the best way, I think, is to affiliate af-filiate with some church. In that way you can become acquainted with the young people associated with that particular par-ticular church and your circle of friends will gradually widen. You might also join the Y. W. C. A., or the Girl Scouts, or some such organization. (2) Tell him you are sorry but you have already made other arrangements for going, or that you have a previous-engagement, previous-engagement, or something of that sort. Ask the other questions another time, dear, and I thank you for obeying the rules. SONGS AND POEMS RECEIVED The following songs and poems have been received during the past week, and I wish to thank each one for their kindness in contributing them: Little Black Me. As Your Hair Grows Whiter. Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight. Snow Deer. Rainbow. Hand in Hand Again. REQUESTED SONGS AND POEMS: These songs and poems are on the requested and To-Be-Found list: For Every Boy That's on the Level. Is There a Kiss For Me Tonight? Song or poem beginning: "I can ride the wildest broncho" Lonesome: Cho. "Oh I'm lonesome for you, "Oh, I'm lonesome 'tis true," etc. Goo-Goo Eyes (Coon song.) Are You From Dixie? Tomorrow. Anchored : "Flying with flowing sail Over the bounding Sea." That Salvation Lassie of Mine. Why Should I Cry Over You? Old Glory. In the Valley by the Mohawk. Dear Miss Brooks: I am a girl of fourteen. I weigh 115 pounds, and I am about 62 inches in height. I am bigger than my sister who is sixteen and weigh more than my sister that is eighteen although she Is taller than I. I get "poked fun" at sometimes for being so fat. Do you think I am any over-weight? I nave quite dark skin, brown eyes and me dium brown hair, my face is not too long nor round. I think I look better with my hair putted out on the sides than I do with It Just combed back and braided. Could you s-jggest a girlish fashion In which I could comb my hair without snarling it? Wishing you much success I am "A UTAH GIRL." You are about nine pounds overweight, over-weight, my dear, which Isn't so much and don't you let them tease you about It but get real "busy'' and see If you can't lose" that nine pounds real quirk. If you are now eating lots of sweets, fats, white bread and potatoes, just forget them and substitute all the fresh green vegetables and fruits you can; take all the exercise you can. and take it at renuotiNly, not forgetting a daily walk. Let your other exercises be whatever is available to you whether it be swimming, hoxse-back riding, tennis, etc., but try to do something like this every day. If you do this I am very sure you will soon "reduce" the neoessary amount. Suppose you try arranging the hair by parting it straight down the mldale of the back, braid each side close to the ears and roll the braid In a knot over the ears, arranging the hair about the face in a soft, becoming manner, by either parting part-ing it In the middle or on the side with a few bangs If you like thorn. Hope this proves to be a becoming style to you. It Is simple and girlish. Dear Miss Brooks: Having found many pleasing answers an-swers In your "Hetwien You and Me" corner. I am going to ask you a question ques-tion for the first time. (1) When It is time fur your boy Iriond to leave your house at night, which one should make the Hist signs of this fact? CJ) What is the proper thing to say at this time. Wishing you much success In your work, 1 remain "A WONDER," Utah. Your boy friend should take his leave not later than Hl;.".n, when making mak-ing ft social call, anil should ho not do so. It would ho quite proper for you to get his hat and smilingly Inform h i in on do not make a practice of keeping later hours than this: ask hint to call again, and hid him good night. To "A. H." Enoch, Utah: My reply to your letter has been returned marked "Unknown." If you still wish this Information, In-formation, please send nio vmir correct address. I have necessarily had to cut down some of these letters In regard to "petting," "pet-ting," owing to the lack of space. Helen l'.rooks. Oenr Miss T! rooks: This is the first tlmo thai I have over written to you. hut 1 have been reading your crncr for some time nnd I have received much liolpful advice from It. 1 saw the letter from the girl who wanted to know why peliing wns wrong, so I thought I would offer my opinion on the subject. I do not think lielting Is right because 1 think it lowers a boy's opinion of you and I am mire It lowers your sel f -respect . Then If a boy Is the petting kind he, usually is the kind that will talk about a girl after she lets hltn pet her. Some girls say (tint they aren't us popular. Well, nutybe (hoy aren't in a way but they can always be sure that boys respect them even If they do say thoy are slow. I have gone Homo with a boy who respects re-spects girls enough to not ho the petting pet-ting kind ii ml I like hltn bolter than liny boy 1 have ever known. If the boy u girl goes with Is the right kind he will not drop her when she refuses wholesale pelting. The Idaho girl said she liked lo ho potted. Well. I will admit that one can got a "thrill" out of it but I don't think 1 urn missing nnythlng by not allowing It. 1 am almost eighteen nnd 1 have boon going with boys about two yours nnd I have decided that I like the kind that lire not long on potting bout of nil. 1 suppose sup-pose the Idaho girl would say 1 wns mid-Viet orlii n but I am nothing of Hie sort! I can have just as good a time at a dance or partv as anyone. PRISCILLA, Wyoming. Dear Miss Brooks: You ask for expressions on the subject sub-ject of petting. I know a girl that liked to be petted and she had lots of beaux but she soon got too old for the "swell lovers," as the little lady calls them, and the better class didn't want such a cheap girl for a wife or one that every body could play with, so she got left. With best wishes, E. E., Idaho. P. S. Miss Brooks, If I write all I know of my alphabet will you help me fill in the rest? Just answer in your column. I do not know just what you mean in your post script, so shall have to ask you to explain, then I will be glad to help you if possible. Dear Miss Brooks: I have enjoyed reading your answers every week, and I am sure you are doing helpful and satisfactory work in so ably answering all the many questions that are asked. I can't think of a question to ask now, but there is an old-fashioned song I would like very much to get the wojds of. I can't remember the titles but the chorus goes like this: "There are friends that we never forget, There are friends that we ever hold dear; Though we meet with a kiss in a nutrient nu-trient of bliss, And we part with a sigh and a tear." I am enclosing the words to one of the songs requested. With best wishes, MARVA, Utah. Thank you for the song, Marva, and I am very hopeful that some of our generous readers will recognize and send in one for which you ask. I do hope my corner is as helpful as you think, and appreciate your kindly wishes. Dear Miss Brooks: I have derived much pleasure from "our" little corner and feel that I should do my part to help it "grow," so I am sending In two of the songs asked for last week. I would like very much to get a book of Scotch Songs (such as are sung by Harry Lauder) and if some reader has one and wants to sell, trade or loan it, I would like to hear from them. (I want words and music.) Thanking you in advance for the favors and wishing best success to the corner, 1 remain, BONNIE JEANNE. Idaho. How sweet of you, Bonnie Jeanne, to vUsh to help our corner. Thank you so much. It Is just such thoughts and deeds that hnve made our corner possible pos-sible and made It grow. I have only one of the songs you wish now. so will hold your envelope for the other one which I am sure will soon arrive, and wouldn't it be lovely If some one should have a book of scotch songs such as you wish! I am sure the rest would be easy. I will gladly forward any information infor-mation anyone may wish you to have, right on to you. To DAWN. Smifhfleld. Utah, and Violet, Jackson, Wyo: Having finally received a copy of "Spotted Fawn" I am glad to reproduce it here: SPOTTK11 FAWN It was a hundred years ago. When by the woodland way. The traveler saw the wild doer drink, or crop the boinehen spray; Beneath a hill whose rocky side o'er bowcred a grassy mead. And fenced a cottage from the wind, A doer wns wont to food. She only came when on the mead The evening moonlight lav. and no man knew the secret haunt in which she walked by day. While wore her feet: HeY forehead showed n spot of silvery white That seemed to glimmer like a star in autumn's hasty night. And as hero sang the whlppoorwill, She cropped the sprouting loaves. And hero her rustling stops wore heard of still October eves. Once in autumn's guidon time, she rang the wild Invade, And found the pheasant nor the doer, and wandered home again. Next evening shown the waxen moon. Beside the sllvcry-fnotod door there grn'.ed n spotted fawn. The cottage daiue forbade her son to aim the ritle hero: "It were a sin," she said, "to harm or fright that friendly doer: This spot has been my pleasant home ten peaceful years and more. And over when the moonlight shines she foods before our door. 1 love to watch her as she foods, nnd think that all Is wol' While such n gentle creature hnunts Iho place in which we dwell. Next evening shone the waxen moon as sweet ly ns before: The deer upon the grassy mend wns feeding full In sight. Ho raised the title to his eye nnd from the cliffs around A sudden echo shrill nnd sharp gavo buck Its deadly sound. Awny Into the neighboring wood the startled creature tlow. And crimson drops of moisture lay niuld the glimmering dew. Next evening shone the waxen moon as sweetly ns before, The door upon the grassy mead wns soon ngn in no more; The red men nay thnt here she walked, a thousand years' ago: They never raised tho wnr whoop hero, nnd never swayed tho bow. At nli'.bl tho rod men came nnd burnt the cottage to tho ground And slew the youth nnd datne. I ion r MIhh IIi uoUh: I luivo road your corner for notnetlm nnil luivo on.loyoil It very inueli. If I will semi .vmt llio noun; i:luo Hiril, tuny Join? (1) Where could I buy tlm liniik "n lb" Heart of Thunder Mountain." Moun-tain." by alio Oroy mid bow niueli would It coHt 7 t " ) How "hi ilo you think I inn by my wrlllnr.'.' Hood luck, Krom IIGONIiV, Wyoinhu'.. Tluinli you for Mm moiik. nnd hoiiiIIiik It Miirely enlllloH ynu to Join, but ynil would have been welcome ii n v w n y . (1) Tbo booh "Henri of Thunder Mniui-Inlna" Mniui-Inlna" Pi not by lino Oroy. loil by 10. A. 1 1 1 1 1 1 -. ! 1 1 1 i and 'M piihllnhod In I'.H'f. It may bo bad hero In Salt l.nUo for sr.o I lua pimlar.o. If yi cure to havo nio. J ,y bo uliid lo buy II for you nnd mull It to you. ( '2 ) About 10, nrou't youT Pour Mian Hrookn: Hero I n nl np.nln liotherlllK- you, but I protnlHo that when 1 write iinaln. there won't bo an lllllell trouble about aaklllir MiioatloiiM. (11 Have you tho Hour.. "Mhlulc.hl on tho Hlvor of Yo-nleo'C Yo-nleo'C CM Will Vu pleaao aah nohio-ono nohio-ono to write to mo, who la II nnd B olrl? I think ninybo you cull auk In tbf paper, pb'iiao. I.ovo nnd best w lahos, f ruin, NICY NKKN. Idaho. Yon haven't bothorod inn nl all. bo-cnuae bo-cnuae I Unit will not bot bored. (I) I do not have thin hoiik, but porhupn aoliio or my roadi'in luivo. C-) H"lo It I h, you hoo, In tho pnpor. 1 bnvo boon InterOAted In your corner for hoiiio tiiuo. I never luivo written before and 1 hope 1 will be welcome, tl) 1 wns born May '-'-. t!'i:t. What dav or the week was 1 born nnd whnt aro inv colors? My eyos nro ft (lurk: i;ruv. I'-M K a penon is till" wunt .should thoy oat t a net Tat? Wlahli'ff iou auoeosK. 1 roui i In, M U ' K 10 Y , I'tn.i. You wore born on Thursday, Mickey, and vonr color' aro .imuionod to be led and 'palo yellow. Prink lota of water. y and buttermilk and awoet oreain. M' X a half pint of nwoot croain nnd n qtmt't of buttermilk and drlh at least till" amount dully, and twice that would be bettor sllll. A very need book on lbl subject Is "Plot and Health." b lulu lliilil 1'elorn. I'orbapa jwl can t'.ot OUi n t your 1 ,lbi ai y. |