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Show This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on question that are puzzling you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to ma. If a more detailed answer than can be given in these columns is desired, send" a stamped envelope and it will be given prompt attention- . All communications will always be held b absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks. Box 1545. Salt Lake City. )cL 6?U-lL Miss Helen Broods : Please tell me what tribe of Indians ihe Indian head on our Buffalo nickel, represents, if any. F. ., Parson, Utah. It was James Fraser who made the design of the Buffalo nickel. The head is a composite made from five different models, and is the sculptor's ideal of an American Indian. Before the work on the relref was even begun portrait busts were made from each oi the models, then portrait reliefs. This means that ten distinct portraits were completed before our new coin design was started. Dear Miss Brooks: Will you please tell me when Rudolph V alenlino's next picture will he released and also the name of it? Thanking you very kindly for this information, in-formation, I am, HIS WORSHIPPER, Cushcr, Ut. "Beyond the Rocks" is Rudolph Valentino's latest picture and will be released the latter part of May or the first of June. Dear Miss Brooks: I am going to write and ask f ou ' help me and I do hope my letter won't find ihe waste basket. Miss Brooks, what can a girl do to have friends like the other girls and be popular? All the ether girls that I know here have boy friends and are always going out with them for auto rides and to shows and parties, elc.t but it seems I nevei am asked to go anywhere, and the other girls make fun of me. . They sot, it is because I am loo cold and call me a prude, and that if I would warm up a little I could have friends, loo; but Miss Brooks, my mother always told me it was not right for a girl to let the boys fisj and hug her because if she did she would always be sorry when the right man came along. ..My mother died a year ago, and it is so hard to have no one to go to. Fathci doesn't seem to understand and I have no sisters. Do please tell me what to do. ALONE. Idaho Falls. My dear little girl, I surely would like to be of help to you because 1 know just how hard it is for you to see your girl friends enjoying themselves them-selves while you must sit alone for the reason that you want to live up to the dear mothar's teachings and not allow the boys to take liberties. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to continue to be the dear sweet girl j I am sure you are, and though you may miss out in dicse temporary pleasures. one of these days a boy will come along who will "appreciate your unspoiled sweetness because his mother will have taught him as yours has taught you that it is worth while not to play at the game of love. You will be like a peach fresh picked from the tree, while these other girls will have all the bloom rubbed off. Be jolly and gay with others, and I am sure you will find before long tha! there are boys who appreciate the girls who do not care for hugging parties. Write me again when you feel like it. j I My Dear Miss Brooks: We have a new arrival in our fan- ily the first, and We are so proud. He is the dearest little boy you ever ; suit', and has dark bair and eyes lil(c ; his daddy. We just can't think of " j mime good enough for him. Won't ' you please tell us a few thai you like? A name is something that has to I e carried all through life and we wan! 1 to gel something that he s-ill li!(e, too. 1 Thank you so much for uaur trouble. PERPLEXED. Pocatello. j I low happy you must be with the new little life to take care of. I don't wonder you want a nice name, and I'm going to tell you the ones that arc ; really my favorites, but of course laslcs are so different that one cannot tell what will suit some one else. 1 like them shoit, don't you? Frank. Carl. Knit, Shiilcy, Kcnnch, Alan, Owcnj Do you like any of these? And I think the custom of naming a child after the mother's maiden name, if it is appropriate, is a very nice one I hope this may be of help to you, and kiss the dail.ng baby for me. Dear Miss Helen Brooks: While in Salt Lake recently I ot-tended ot-tended the Shiner's Circus, and saiv an act in their show where they used what they called a "boomerang." I had never seen one before end it was very intersling. Can you tell me wl.y it alway came back to the stage? Just an INQUIRER From TooeU A great deal of study has been devoted de-voted to finding why the boomerang muit be its emcl she, what are the consequences if its shape is a little-different, little-different, what is the speed at which it begins to curve, etc. etc., and a great many of them are still undecided. Briefly the boomerang is so shaped that the air resists one part of it more than, another, so that it has to travel in a curved path after its speed has slowed down below a certain rate. As it travels in a curve it more or less comes back to the place from which it started. start-ed. It is interesting to know that it has been brought to perfection among ;he natives of Australia, who are almost al-most the lowest race of mankind. Dear Miss Brooks: I Can you tell me why Boston is called the Hub of the universe? Thank you. LOTTIE, Parowan. Utah. Oliver iWendell Holmes, himseif a Bostonian, said in satire that the 3ostonians thought the dome of the state house was the centre of the earth, and that Boston therefore must be the Hub. It might be added that Boston-:ans Boston-:ans have a well grounded reason for being proud of their city. Boston has always been a leader in gTeat movements. move-ments. When only a small town Harvard, Har-vard, the oldest college in the United States was founded there. The best Ji music, art and literature are alss-found alss-found in this city. Hope to hear from you again. Dear Miss Brooks: What k'nd of a radio receiving set vould you advise me to get? I im figuring on putting about $50 or i75 into one, and if I get a vacuum set could I use twenty-four flashlight balieries instead of a "B" battery? RADIO, Caldwell. Idaho. Get a vacuum tube detector set, using a erio-coupler for a tuner. Yes. the flashlight batteries will do very licely if connected up in series and 'apped so that you can use any number num-ber you desire. |