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Show ' v. - s. THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH HVOInlis Dwaslafed) fra This is your corner, t Make use of it for your information on questions that are puzzling you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully and promptly all questions submitted to me. Your questions must be limited to two, and your full name and address must accompany each letter. For special information send stamped envelope. All communications will ald in absolute confidence. ways All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1 545, Salt Lake City. Work offhe Anne Morgan CommiHse be-hel- Dear Mias Brooks: I read your corner every week and gain a great deal of knowledge from it. I am a girl of seventeen. (1) Do you think it is proper for a girl my age to keep steady company with a boy? (2) Is it a boy's or girls place to give thanks for a dance? (3) Is it and re proper for a girl to read cite poems from them? (4) Is it proper to write friendly letters to boys whom you have never seen? (5) Is it a boy's or girl's place to write first? () Is it proper for a girl to sit on a boy's lap at a party where there aren't enough chairs for all? I hope I haven't occupied all tfce space, but if you will answer my questions I will thank you most gratefully. I am, HOPB H, Roberts, Idaho. (1) Seventeen is very young to give alt your time and attention to one boy. Don't you think you could enjoy yourself better to juit have a few good boy pals to go about with? You are too apt to imagine yourself in love before you have had an opportunity to know enough different types of boys and men to choose a life partner from, don't you tKnk so? (2) A boy always thanks his partners for a dance. (3) The periodical you mention is forbidden the use of the mails, so this is sufficient reason why you should not read it or recite poems from it (4) There can be no particular objections to friendly letters between boys and girls even though you have not seen them. (5) Always the boy's place to write first. Certa'nly it is not proper There could not possibly be any excuse for such conduct at all. () Dear Miss Brooks: I have been reading your corner of the paper for some time (1) Will you please toll me how I can tell what dance a boy is going to dance when you get on the floor with him? (2) How old should a girl be when she starts to go with the boys? Yours truly, 'v IDAHO GIRL. (1) If you, who are dancing with the boy cannot tell what he is to dance, how could I, my dear? Follow his lead is about all you can do, unless you ask him before the dance b?gins. (2) You should be at least sixteen, Idaho Girl. Dear Miss Brook): I enjoy very much your little corner and would be glad if I could join it and be welcome. Would you please answer these few questions I am asking- - (1) What is a good remedy for making eye lashes grow? (2) What can be done to remove moles and warts? Yours very trulv, MICKEY, Preston, Idaho. Mickey, dear, read the instructions at head of column and send us your name. I could then answer you direct. I will have to ask you now to send stamped envelope for reuly to your question in regard to the eyelash grower. although many people consider white vaseline very good to promote the growth of the Moles are a difeyelashes and eyebrows. ficult problem and cannot readily be removed. The electric needle is some times used but is far from satisfactory. A solution of borax and salt in proportion of one teaspoon to pint of waters and applied and let dry on the Also wart, will often times remove these. touching them with a caustic pencil obtained from your drug store will remove them. Be very careful in applying the caustic not to I By EDWARD B. CLARK t ARIS, France. No one dares admit that he is not Interested in babies, and so it is safe enough to write something about them, feeling quite certain that no one openly will object on the ground that the subject lacks allurement. This is France, but it makes no to be it dlfferencerppause v France. The' matter ofhappens babies would f'J 1 I be as interesting in any other country 'y'v where the conditions snrrounding child life were as they are here. France is trying to save the babies, and American women with the help of women of some other countries are pioneering long the way of salvation. Once upon a time an English novelist, now too little read, wrote a book called : Put Yourself in His Place. There was a character in the book. Dr. Amboyne, who was forever putting himself in the other fellows place, so that he might get a proper and unselfish viewpoint. So when one comes to France he must put himself in the Frenchmans place, and judge things human-likI am framing this letter in the heart of the devastated region. I am sitting on the doorstep of a wooden barracks in which there are 20 young women members of an American committee, known frequently as the Anne Morgan committee. Ail of these girls are trying to do something to help not only the stricken peasants of this land, but, wilh foresight, attempting to help the future generations. I On the other side of the barracks are the ruins of a once fine chateau. Scattered over reaching plains are the sites of once prosperous villages. d reOn the right I look at the fire and mains of a noble forest whose undergrowth mazes must not be trod even today lest you kick the plunger of an unexploded shell or the trigger of a hand grenade and thus secure a passport to a country from which you cant get back. The setting of this scene is an inspiration for work. The girls work hard. Before leaving the United States I read stories of a decreasing birth rate in France. I took the reports to mean literally what they said. The other day in the chamber of deputies a member rose to speak of certain existing conditions trying to the soul of Frenchmen, and closed his speech And in the with these humanly tragic words: meantime, France is being depopulated. Such words as these start a man to thinki ig and urge him to an attempt to find ou the truth. Hence In part the visit to which is one of the centers of the activities of the American committee of which Mrs. A. M. Dike is the president and Miss Anne Morgan the Everybody knows how women in America wmrk to save babies, to instruct mothers and to send good books circulating through what generally may be called, the unreading communities. First for the babies. On the steamer coming from America I asked a French woman if it were true that had such a low birth rate that in time the country would become depopulated. Her answer was: The birth rate is high enough to keep the population of France stationary at least. The trouble is that the children die because of the absence of certain safe guarding means and because of the reluctance of some of the mothers to adopt new methods. Later I asked one of the leaders in the work which the American committee is doing about this If the lives of the children matter. She said: can be saved, France has babies enough to keep its population growing. Public health service of the right kind is what is needed. The death late among the children can be decreased greatly and the seuson of fear be made to pass. Laon, or part of it, stands on a mighty hid in the heart of the embattled territory of France, but the American committee there reduced the yearly death rate among the children- from 85 In the thousand to 34 in the thousand. Tills proves something, one does not need further demonstration became Laon is typical. v t & V W7 " i S f "fc r; - "'"T My Dear Miss Brooks: I have been quite interested In one of the corners "Just Between You and Me. Perhaps you can solve some of my problems. (1) I have been attending a boarding school and I don't like It. I have to return the first of October. Is there any way I can coax my father to let me stay home and go to high school? (2) There is a boy that I like very well but have never gone with him. Of course we have been friendly. Is there any possible chance of me going with him (I would like to) or should I forget him (which 1 have tried and find it very hard.) Yours truly, KENT, Downey, Idaho. (1) My dear little girl, how fortunate you are to be able to attend boarding school, and how happy you will be later on that you had Your father has only your the opportunity. best interests at heart or he would not send yon. Cant you see his viewpoint and be a dear, sensible little girl and go willingly and rladly, and make the very most of your opportunity ? There is so much time later on to think about the boys, and to devote to the social side of life, when it will be too late to obtain the education so necessary for filling any position, either in the business or social life, which may be yours. Perhaps when you return home from school next year yon will be wiser and more attractive to your friend, so that he will be proud to take you out. Think it over, girlie, and use your own good judgment and I mm sure you will see the light. e. shell-blaste- Anizy-le-Chatea- t. v.' dmzn&cZASJjr qwrzy;jiJ7?' What is needed in France to save her babies, and what it slowly is getting is an educated public The opinion, initiative and lasting leadership. world probably never saw a work like unto that which is being done today In this devastated land. It is true that work of the same kind Is being attempted in other lands which war has hit, and perhaps they are doing as wail elsewhere as they are doing here. I dont know, but here the work is before ones eyes. Its scope and Its significance stand In clear relief. Much is done here for children outside of the Immediate field of what I like to call "life saving. There are kindergartens, there is manual training instruction, and there are amusements. There Is a directing of the feet of childhood Into the paths of a right moral and sanitary life. One looks, sees it, and feels that this is a working committee which makes American a part of its name of action. At tills writing there are. In France about 100 visiting American working girls. They have come over here as guests of the American committee to see what is being done. They will carry back a picture of a new life coming amid scenes of desolation that only four years ago were scenes of death. Something has been said of the library work of the American committee. If has established circulating libraries in the viwhges from which the work is conducted as centers. French peasants In these regions who had few or no books today have books to their liking at their command and their commands nre frequent. I like the story told by Miss Jessie Carson, director of the library department, of the old peasant who under the evening lamp In his partially rebuilt house was reading to his tvife while she was knitting. She became so interested that without being seen she stopped the clock. The old man looked up from time to time only to know tlint it was not getting late and so he kept on till the end of the story. Then she told him, and he said tnnt mlcux, I did not waut to go to bed before finishing that good story. There will be libraries in the various centers in the districts in which the American committee ha$ been working. The committee has given money in considerable sums to certain of the towns to be used to complete the present libisiry equipment. Young French women are being trained In the United States is librnmns. It ought to be a truism that reading under virtually all conditions should be directed. In France provision is being made for such proper direction. Mothers of France in the stricken districts today have their meeting places and their clubs, the old and the young together are getting the things of which they knew so little before and of which, today, they nre beginning to realize the social apd physical- benefits. Association in agricultural endeavor is the order of things today in the fanning districts where war . had once Waged for four years. The French farmer is parting with some of his selfishness of the past, which, while unconscious, was nevertheless selfishness. The interest of the community today is paramount, while individual effort is not allowed one instant to sag. This is committee work, but the French give strong support. Someone once said that when you cannot tell anything about the standing of a man or woman Miss Helen Brooks: in life from the general appearance, to look at his Have been receiving a Utah paper with or her hands, for they will tell the tale. your "questions and answers" In from a friend. And to your solicitations for personal I wonder iiow many people looking at the hands puzzling questions I submit the following : of of some the American, English and French girls (1) Which is the true church of Christ ex(3) What today? (2) Give reasons. working in the devastated regions could learn any- Isisting the population of Salt Lake City? (4) social or their most is about their truthful What the in point passing interesting thing position (&) What time of the year is best through? educational equipment. ' Many of Jhese girls are to see points of interest? Wishing you in your work. 8incerely Yours, driving trucks and moreover they are their own mechanics. They do the work like men graduated THOMAS C. ESPLIN, Boulder. Colo. (l)As there are perhaps between two and from a public garage and their hands are a sight three hundred different religions beliefs or are and they cannot help it. They girls from sects, all believeing thv are the true church, you sea how impossible it would be for virtually all the best educational Institutions in the me to a definite answer to your United States. They work not only with a heart question.give(3)youSalt Lake City has a populaGreat Salt Lake is conof it. tion for 118,110. for It, but with both hands sidered the most interesting of all Salt Lake It may be that the American committee will stop THy's many attractions. (5) The months of this work in France next spring except for a gen- July and August are perhaps the best time to to Salt Lake a Another enjoy trip eral supervision from America by what one might noinfc of great Interest to City. the visitor is call the alumnae of the organization. Members of Temple Square. the committee will see to it that the work has not Dear Miss Brooks : been in vain. I am very interested in your corner "BeYou and Me" and would like to ask I have said I am framing this inadequate picture tween vou a few questions. can I make my fields. It is hair turn black, it isHow while looking over the between white and black and Is very ugly? (2) How many childeasy enough to understand, humanly speaking, why ren has Wallace Reid and what la his adFrance is Insistent on getting its reparation money dress? (3) Were the English justified in must and b It is human. Everything is gone siting the land of North America from the ? Tadians replaced and there Is no money in France to reMABLE MAXX. Mammoth. Utah (1) Dyeing the hair is about the only place It. Just beyond the fields In front of me runs which Chemiit to the "Red zone, through do, and this is (mite difficult to king do home, and expensive to have done des Dames. Is not memory keen of the days of by at an expert (2) Wallace Reid has one the killings, yes and the slaughterings, on tlu "bild, a boy. His address is. Lanky 8tudios. Vine Street. No Calif. (4) I think one Hollywood. treads tin this great highway? slopes of v Mable. This of otrg woufd red zone todny save on the road which runs still be uncivilized,greathadcountry the Ind'ans been and hand shells as it. are to an remain, grenades mnprogres-stv- e Unexploded they through people are hidden among the popples, com flowers and daisies which have struggled up through th tear Miss Brooks: Ths hstng mv first time I fet rathsr masses of matted barbed wire. This red zone is strange tut would like your opinion on these an object lesson, but Just why it is needed as sucl mentions. O) Is It "nwr foe a girl a when the whole countryside around about presents a dance alone to wait for a boy to aV to dance first or to dance with a girl? a picture sufficiently striking and sufllcently nrgu '2) Is R proper for a girl to go to a publ ment compelling, one cannot exactly understand. c bathing place n a crowd with a her who gone with hut verv hew tlm? In America many people ask how much restora. Tshe Ithas proper for a boy to take a gM to the to see that rhe gss in th hou or tion there has been In France. The fields largel.v 'ate ud has the I'ght turned on bsor he leave? have been reclaimed and the peasants today art '41 Would you advin a girl of about fifteen reaping their oats, barley and their wheat. Tht v have a sweetheart. still in the dust are most for the part villages S C T,.. Woods X. Uteh Frenchmen will tell you that reparation money I think it would be mtite pnrn-- r () he made to Is alive if their country dance with a girl frnd, t wat (21 Tf hoy to ask you, dear. jon Looking on these scenes pregnant with horrors no hut not unions a vm do. Tu chaperone, the Frencl jet all passed, one can understand wsnf man should escort vou to vonr doo would an be of fa no that In one tid else if there the hone ' viewpoint and know that it -wld be perfectly proper for him to w other country which had been as France alwa? util wu are safely in and the light had been she battlefield of the world. . (4)No a girl of fifteen should no b suc-c- . war-strick- . ir , . f use or time for them yet, dear. Let your time be occupied with your studies, your music and the things which will fit you to more effectually fill your place in life later on. Dear Miss Brooks: Your corner of the paper "Between Y on and Me" has helped me a great deal, no thought I would come to you personally. (1) Will you please give me a list of Xmas gifts suitable for one's fiance? (2) And pease tell me is it proper for a girl to ank her fiance to take her some certain placs she wishes to go, if he does not ask her first himself? you very much Thanking I am DOLLY, Moroni, Utah I am indeed gird to have been a help t? you. (1) It is never good form, nor is it well to exchange expensive gifts with your fiance. Any of the following would make an appropriate gift: A fountain pen, pencil, leaths, er bill case, ties, handkerchiefs, (2) Yes it is proper for you to ask your fV ance to take you any place you wish to go cuff-link- Dear Miss Brooks : Please answer some questions for us. We are two girls 14 years of age. (1) How old do you think a girl should be before she with the boys? (2) Should a girl goes let a boy kisg her good night the first time him? with she goes (3) When a gW likea one boy should she go any place with another? (4) Should a girl accent presents of jewelry from a boy? Thanking you in advance we' are, BILLIE and BOBBIE, Wendell. Idaho. You are not old enough to think of the hoys, Billie and Bobbie, do you think so? Fix your mind on your studies for at least two more yar thre or four woud be better. (2) Neither the first time nor the last dear girls. No good can come from the promiscuous kissing of boys and girls. How I wish I could say someth ng wh?ch would impres you with the necessity of keeping yourself pure in nrnd (for this is necessary for a pure, wholesome body) so that you may peroare and fit yourself for a place in the world in which your iirHuuce will he felt It is not , a pure, wholesome thought which prompts a boy to ask for or take these liberties. (3) Do not liko any boy at your age, to the extent of excIuTitg all others. Just be mere friends with all of them. (4) No, do not accept presents from any boys. Dear Problem Solver: Will you pleae welcome me to your corner? as so perplexed Miss Brooks, about the most becoming way to dress my hair. I am quite tall and slander with small features. Th lat year and a half I've worn my hair with ear puffs and a braid, but it do-- s not seem to become me anymore It Is linht in color, abunt 22 inches long and quite thick. It isn't curlcy, just sort of fluffy. Would you advise me to bob my hair Miss Brooks? I have thought of bobbing It before. I don't want or like my hair done up yet. I've just turned sixteen and T would raher wait about one year before I do it in coils or co:ffures and tht like. Can you suggest some girlish styles for me. Trusting I am welcome and thanking you ever and ever so much in advance. FAITH, Parowap, Utah I am more than glad to welcome you for Faith, you are one of the rare girls of sixteen who still wish to be girlish and sweet. Too many at that age wish to appear mature and sophisticated, so it is a joy to welcome you. The single braid fastened with a barrette half way down and the end in curls is always a pretty, girlish style, with the hair drawn softly back from the face, but for a change why not part it on the side and draw it softly back and over the ears, then divide it in two parts and cross it in the back twisting each side in figure eight and fasten across the nape of the neck from ear to ear with the ends hanging in loose curls below. Make the twist so that the curls come from underneath. You may curl the ends of the hair on a doth at night and it will not Injure it at all. Do you know how to do it? It is very simple. No, dear, do not bob it. It Is so hard to grow It again, and the bobbed hair is doomed they say. I Dear Miss Brooks: I have never written to you before, but read your answers to other people's questions and would like you to answer my troublesome questions. (1) What is a girl to do when she is with a boy who tries to love her up after she has told him once that she don't allow it? Is It proper for a bey of 16 and a girl of 14 to go to a dance, show, etc., without a chaperone? (3) What can a girl do when she is the pet of her school teacher and don't wish to be, without making her teacher offended? (4) When yon are invited to a party and you are asked to bring your partner, although you have never been out with the boy before, but you knew he liked you. how would you invite him and what would you say? With oceans of success. INA, Bountiful, Utah, fl) My dear, do not place yourself in a position to receive such treatment from him by not being In bis company again. He is certainly not a gentleman If he does not resnect your wishes In this respect. (2) No little girl, it is not proper for a girl of 14 to go with a boy at all much less without a chanerone. (8) This is rather a delicate situation isn't It? A teacher should nave no ' pets" but I think youreally ean handle the situation gracefully if you do not accent too many favors from her, and nd strictly to your studies. (4) You may Mmply say you have been asked to bring a boy friend and thought perhaps he would go as your partner Hlen You may have boy frier but. ae sweetheart, you have n Brooks : I have been interested in earner and have wanted to join it foryour .me and would like you to answer somd oftime mv questions. 1) Ig . it rinrht to go home with ,n so any place with nt ?. ou, him? (2)Is it ripht to kiss a boy at the ,T,ub,i',h the words to Msrjone? (4 ,yoU it rlvhf to go walking 19 !t to write to a rth at the aee of 14 7rihtWishing you success in answering these questions. SADIE, Tropic, Utah. are sometime 'll that H wookl 'r,7"ance sneh, he more proper to go home with a boy than not to, but I would of having the eircum- ,uch that it would seem necessarr. U oft J?Ver- of recreation ana enter-- , nment. ,nulum, quite proper to take a " day with your fT'a Fourteen Is entirely too young to be considering the boys in any way. although to write a friendly letter to a boy wHfd i'Sr'h. h. ol', fri',",, of TOr " lm70wr- - Hve I been rZini ?onr OuestlonsT The song Marjorie will appear next j 'f'"7k ty BUSINESS COLLEGES - - - - -n a e, . . . , . , . L. D. 8. BUSINESS COLLEGE School of Efficiency. AH eomme-ci- al branches. Catalog free. 0 N. Main St., Salt Lake City. . pleating a buttons Accordian, Side. Box Hemstitching, Buttons. Buttonholes. Pleating, Hid Corset Parlor! 10 E. Broadwtiy, Salt lake City. SERY i'a-.- e r- s sweethearts and pals t.- I I your Book prlntmf. itn's O! K PUBLISHES Bmdingany kintTto'yonTto! Trade Bindery, Salt Lake. ' 22initiatin'! Crop Timothy A'sikl Hper lent, Norwood, Idaho. grown mixed 10c. llmo.hy 7c. M. |