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Show j ! IjgllJ 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 me. 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 in. absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks. Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Cu-nL ed towards you. Breaking an engagement engage-ment is of course a serious thing, so you should be sure of your reasons. Whatever prompted him to act as he did at the time of the accident may have passed and he may now be u loyal to you as ever. My dear Misa Brooks: I have two or three questions to ask you. (1) How old should a yourq? lady be before beginning to think of marrying? (2) Could you tell me how anyone could take a scar off of their arm after it had been on there a year or more? Thanking you in advance. ad-vance. McCammon, Idaho. (1) You might begin to THINK of marrying at a very early age, but I hope you will not consider taking this most important step before you are twenty-one or twenty-two. You will then have ample time left for the responsibilities and cares of married life. Enjoy your girlhood and hold your ideal of a husband very high. (2) It depends a great deal upon what kind of a scar you have as to whether it can be removed. If it is a deep scar it cannot be removed, but if only n slight one it may be pos- sible to remove it. A deep scar such as vaccination makes, cannot be removed. re-moved. Dear Miss Brooks: I have come to you to ask a question. ques-tion. I am sixteen years old and I have a boy friend who is the same age. He will go with me and take me t the show, but you don't know whether he likes you or not. Will you please tell me if you can how I could find, out whether he likes me or not? Sometimes he acts 60 funny you wouldn't think he liked anybody. I am hoping to hear from you soon. Your 'true friend, A WONDERER of Utah. Watchful waiting would seem to be about the only course you can pursue. Your friend is very likely the quiet, reserved type and is possibly eccentric-also, eccentric-also, and it would take a long acquaintance ac-quaintance with him before you feel that you really know him. Bide your time, dear if he likes you he will let you know about it, and in the meantime mean-time go to the shows and enjoy them and do not think too miiiCh about whether he Ukes you or not. He evidently evi-dently enjoys being with you or he wouldn't care to take you any place, and that is all that is necessary at the age of sixteen. Dear Miss Brooks: Please tell me what day of the week I was born on. My birthday is on December De-cember 25, 1907. LEXIA, Roosevelt, Utah. I find you arrived here on Wednesday. Wednes-day. Let me hear from you again. Dear Miss rtrooVs : I am very much pleased with the answer you have given in connection with the question ques-tion that I hove read in your corner and I am eure you can help me with this oits. I have betn so'.ng with a certain fellow for some time, though I was not engaged, but will admit thut 1 admired him very much and think he admired me. He asked me to so ui a dance and I refused, so he took one of my very dear srirl friends and is now paying hid attention to har. Will you please Ull me wnal I am to do ? Am I supposed to ask his pardon, as I shouldn't think this would be proper : or what do you think is best T I have ronftiii my trouble in uMmocit every dear fr.end and it seems as Wiough they cannot can-not or will not help me. Thanking you. I am, D V. J.. Idaho. Well, here's another nice young man who's "peeved" about something. I would say it all depended on what reason you gave him for net going to the dance as to why he has not returned to you. Perhaps you do not dance at all. In that case he may have thought ho preferred to go with a girl who dues dance. In any case I would not ask his pardon as I cannot see where you have any reason to do so. Should he talk to you on this particular subject again and you have anything to explain, it would be perfectly proper to do so, but not otherwise. Don't worry, dear; if he admired you and enjoyed your company he will no doubt eome again somo of these days. Thank you for your encouraging en-couraging words and 1 hope tiiis answer will be of help to vm. Dear Miss Brooks : ' Will you please tell me the address and price of the "Ladies Home Journal," an Eautorn publication DEE. .Idaho. The Ladies' Home Journal is publirhed by-The by-The Curtis Publishing Co., 658 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. The subscription price is II. SO a year. My dear Miss Brooks : I have, two questions which have been bothering me for a long time. 1. When a boy says "I am very glad to have met you." what Is the proper reply? 2. If a boy writes to a girl, then stops, and then starts ajra'n. and then stops, and the girl writes last, would it be good form for the girl to write ajrain if she thinks a good deal of this boy 7 Thanking you, LEILA. Salt Lake. (1) A pleasant smile and a quiet "Thank -you," is all that is necessary, in answer to a boy's expression of pleasure at having met you. (2) To write the second time would not be bad form as he might not have received re-ceived the first one; but do not consider writing writ-ing after that, as it is very bad form to continue writing, Just as It is not good form to continue to try to interest a boy after he has shown you plainly that he does not care for your attention. Dear Miss Brooks : Two of our town girls have questions and wish you would answer them. How old should a g rl be before starting to go with a boy ? The other is, what kind of games should you play at a parly? MAGGIE and MERIOS, Kingston. Utah You should be at least sixteen before r--e ly going out to parties with boys, and then you should go only with bojs you end your parents know well. Yeu will not regret following fol-lowing this advice, I can assure ycu. As 1 cannot take the space to explain many games. I will give you one on the contest order which Is interesting. Select pictures of motion picture pic-ture stars, or of well known, nationally nd-rertised nd-rertised articles. Cut these pictures out, number them and fasten them on the wall, of the room. Give your guests paper and pencil, and the one who gives the greatest nur, ber of correct answers as to who tite stars are, or what the article Is, receives a prire; and the one who has the fewest correct cor-rect answers get the booby prize. Dear Miss Brooks : Can you tell me what to do for a scaly and blotchy complexion, nnd also what to do for my haar? It is Just like it is dead and li Isn't oily at ail. Thanking you In advance. BETTY. Utah. The blotchy condition may be due to many reasons and cannot usually be remedied by treatment throurh the skin. The scaly condition condi-tion is probably caused by washing the face with impure soap. Try cleansing the face with a rood cleansing cream. Do this reg ularly at least once a day. If you us powder change to some other good grade. It may be the powder which is causing the trouble. Regarding Re-garding your hair, your scalp needs a good, thorough massaging with the tips of the fingors in a circular movement DAILY. Before Be-fore shampooing massage vaseline or olive oil into the scalp thoroughly and shampoo with a good tar soap. Rinse in water In which a lemon, skin and all, has been boiled and then strained. Clip the ends of your hair once a month until it Improves. Let me hear from you after you have followed these directions faithfully for a month or two. My dear Miss Brooks: I am deeply troubled and feel that I should ask someone's advice. About two weeks ago my girl friend and I, in company with my fiance, were out boatriding and the boat was accident-ly accident-ly capsized. We girls were both good swimmers, but njy fiance made no effort ef-fort to help me but seemed very anxious to help my girl friend. That evening he called on her to see if s-he suffered any ill effects, but did not call on me. Since then he has called on me the same as usual. As I do not feel that it was merely a friendly interest in-terest that prompted him to call on her, should I receive his attentions the same as usual, or should I break my engagement? Please advise me what to do. "ANXIOUS" Rigby, Idaho. Absolute sincerity and frankness ts necessary to all friendship of whatever what-ever degree, so it would seem to me that an explanation was due from your fiance. Unless he could give a satisfactory explanation of his conduct con-duct at the time of the accident, I think you should offer to free him from his engagement. You should be able to tell by his actions since that time whether his feelings have chang-1 |