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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Dear Miss Brooks: I have enjoyed reading your corner Am glad at last to know where to sen for the information I have desired Belong. Do you know the words to song the chorus runs like this? I promised Id protect her y.rs ago As we stoqd by the Altar band In hand I promised Id protect her and I will. I can't forget that she 'was once my wife No matter what her past life may haye-beeThis is your corner. Make use of it for information on questions which are puzzling you. It will be a pleasure and privilege to answer carefully and promptly all questions submitted to me, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business Arms cannot be printed here, hut will be sent if a stamped envelope accompanies the reFor send a quest. personal reply stamped envelope. Questions must be limited to two, and name and address must accompany each letter. All communications are held strictly confidential. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City, Utah. In requesting poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or the author is necessary in order to find them. BROWN EYES. Lava Hot Springs, Ida. If you will send me your name. I now have your, poems and will be glad to send them. Space does not permit f printing them. Dear Miss Brooks: Will you please have published In the paper the answers to the following questions? (1) How should one propose to a girl he loved? (2) Is It proper when walking with two girls to have one on each side of you? TOM D , Utah. (1) Why Tom' D., how could you ask me such a question? How could I know what to tell you, unless I should tell you Just how I have been proposed to and wouldnt that be an awful thing to do. for then, no one would ever propose to me again, knowing I would not hold It confidential. But really, Tom, when you really and truly fall head over heels In love, I am quite sure you will know Just what to say and when to say It, and until that time, take my advice and do not propose, for sometimes they take It seriously and then where will you be? (2) There seems to be considerable difference of opinion among authorities on etiquette, but to be quite correct it is generally conceded that the young man should take his place on the outside of the walk, not between the , . girls. Dear Miss Brooks: I wrote to you once before. I was so well satisfied, I am going to venture again. What Is the normal height of a girl of 13? (2) It is often said girls who are popular when they are young will not be when they grow older. Is this very often the case? (3) Are National Bobs too. old for a girl of 13? (4) Is It profier to write to movie stare or ask for their pictures? Hoping we have not asked too many questions, we remain. , JACK AND JILL. Am sorry. Jack and Jill, but you did ask Just six too many questions, but as there eeems to be two of you I'll answer four this time and you mayjend the rest later. (1) The average height of a girl of 13 Is 58 Inches. (2) I do not think this is a dependable saying In sufficient circumference, almost, to as- any sense, so I would not let It enter Into my thoughts at all. (3) Yes, they sume the dignity of trees. As an inare rather too old I think. (4) It Is burwhich in dication of the numbers proper to write to movie stars, yes, berry bushes have been found, there is but do not ask for their photo without cited the estimate of 25,000 dug up In enclosing 25 cents at least. When you realize that some of our most popular ' Omaha. screen actors and actresses receive as on Jthe fcnr; high as 1,500 letters a day, many of After 100 years war i nlmoslS them no doubt requesting photographs, berry, western Europe hai" can see how Impossible It would completely annihilated this pest, with you be to send a photo post haste, without rust black .stem the result that the price, and you can also understand how of wheat and other grains Is no longer very attractive your letter should be in u serious problem there. every way. In fact, the common bnrberry Is now Helen Brooks very rare In the agricultural districts In the Just Between You and Me of England, France, Austria, Hungary, corner I noticed that Another Sham- -' Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland rock" wanted the poem. Forgotten." 1 the poem and am enclosing a copy und Denmark and black stem rust is have of It. I enjoy the "Just Between You correspondingly rare. ,Tliere Is said and Me corner very much. to be no question whatever that the STILL ANOTHER SHAMROCK, . Shoshone. Idaho. black stem rust has decreased In ImI am so glad you are enjoying my portance In proportion to the thor- corner. Thank you so very much for oughness with which barberries have contributing this poem, and I am very In will be very Shamrock" removed.' evidence sure "Another Eng.The been to Still Another Shamrock, land and Denmark Is particularly con- grateful, also. Hope I may be of service to you clusive. some time. be true to seems same FORGOTTEN The thing ImForgotten you? Well If forgetting. throughout most of France. It was Be thinking all the day; possible to find black stem rust up How the long houra pass since you left in the of middle June except to the me. Or hearing through all the etrange Alps and Jura mountains, where there babble, still are a great many barberry bushes. now gay; only voices of The relationship between the barberry voiced your so was rust and the development of Can this be forgetting? Yet I have for- gotten you say. evident that even the peasants knew Or counting each moment with longit thoroughly. The only reason the barberries are permitted to remain Is Till' the ing. one when I'll. see you again, because it would be practically impos- If this bo forgetting youre right, dear; Well, I have forgotten you then. sible to eradicate them and because only a little grain Is grown. Forgotten you? Well if forgetting. In Italy black stem rust Is destrucBe reading each face that I tee, tive only in the mountains and in the With eyes that mark neer a feature. you last looked at me. northern part of the' country where Save yours, as Well If forgetting Forgotten? old there are burberries. In the Be yearning with all my heart, empire there was a With a longing, half pain . and half rapture, law requiring the destruction of bar- " Fer a time when we never shall part berry bushes, and there usually Is If my wild wish to see and to hear you. To be held In your arms again. only a little black stem rust except in the hilly and mountainous districts, If this be forgetting, you're right dear. Well, I have forgotten you then. where the barberry bushes remain. The same Is true of Germany. Dear Miss Brooky: Barberry bushes have been almost I have been interested in your corner questions completely removed from Denmark, for some time. I havetoa few nnd there has not been a single seri- I .should like you were answer. (1) the what poems following From ous outbreak of rust since 1903. quotations taken? It should be understood that the One ship goes east another west by the selfsame winds that blow, b.v Is not attacked Japanese bnrberry eet of the sail and not the gale, black stem rust and need not be de- Tie the that determines the way they both more Is It beautiful, stroyed. go. com of the sea are the winds winds nnd than the in summer Like the winter, of fate. mon barberry, and can be dlstin ws voyage along through life: The As gnfshed from It quite easily. TIs the aet of tha soul that decides the common of the -leaves the of goal, edges the toll or the strife. barberry are toothed, while those ol And hotthis one. I know the Initials but .Also the Japanese ire not ; the spines ' of not the whole name of the author: the common variety are usually single. There in the soft moonlight Both have red berries, but those of White ghosts of flowers they lay. the common form are borne In Sweet cherry blossoms fallen racemes like currants, while those of While the breezes softly play."E. M. H. the Japanese form are borne singly (2) Waa the hook "The Shlek" by E. H. Hull ever played In the movies? If like gooseberries. so. who took the part of the Shlek and Dear Mlsa Brooks: his age. The days of the monks, who I am writing to you again to ask anat that time were the only people to other favor of you. First of all I want advice already whom learning and science meant any- to thank you for the to me. I would like get a certain thing at all. were divided by bells Into given have forgotten both the book but I various periods, and the resounding name and author, but thought perhaps could of these bells was depended upon by either you or some of the readers them some Idea of If I ail the people. This will explain why help me, Thegave was at the time of etory tho the word clock was taken from the tho story. Civil war. The hero'e- name was and the heroine's name was word cloche and the Saxot Paul Parker, French The story starts when they word clngga," both of which nrlgl Azalea. are children at school. Paul Joins the nnliy meant a bell. In 1851. whe army. ! wounded, and reported killed. the discovered Galileo principle of the Azalea volunteers as a nurse and finds and they returc pendulum, the progress of clock making Paul in a hospital ' home. There la also another .book j was stimulated. . millions of dollars of damage done every year to the wheat and grain crop by the black or stem rust. The Japanese barberry has been found Innocent. It may stay. The Congressional Record contains several pages of debate preliminary to the passing of a senate amendment to the annual appropriation bill for the Agricultural department, raising the Item for lighting the barberry from It appears from $350,000 to $500,000. the debate that among other things That the barberry has been practically exterminated In 475 wheat-raisin- g counties, leaving 391 counties yet to be handled In thirteen states. That with a further expenditure of $800,000 by the federal government and contributions from the states the work can be completed in one and years. That the ground must be gone over a second time. That the rust spores have been found up in the air several thousand feet, und that they are carried hundreds of miles. That in laid, by way of example, an estimated wheat crop of over bushels in North Dakota was reduced to 39,000,000 bushels, the rust striking the crop in four days in July. The common burberry Is a sort of fence m the plant world, ns it harbors and assists the black or stem rust of wheat, oats barley and rye. The barberry was formerly used for medicinal purposes. Dyes were made from its bright red berries. Today It has no use except as an ornamental shrub In the yard, and it Is everywhere. Unknowingly every man who put a barberry shrub In the ground planted an enemy to help destroy the wheat crop of the country a menace to every field of grain for 25 miles around. Black rust is a fungus disease that attacks the stems of the grain and saps the vitality that should go to making the kernels. There is danger that the wheat crop for 1923 may be seriously damaged and cause the loss of millions of dollars tothe farmers of this country. Such an event would hare a disastrous effect upon the bread supply of the United States and other countries dependent upon us for their wheat and flour. If at any time before harvest a warm wet spell should come this rust might wipe out millions of bushels of grain. There is just one way to prevent this outbreak. This Is to dig from the ground and burn every barberry bush of every variety except the Japanese which alone has been declared Innocent.' For the rust to live It Is necessary that It spend one stage of Its existence upon the leaves of the barberry. Without these leaves the life cycle would be broken. - In the summer the rust Is a reddish or brown growth on the stem of grains. a black, form Later dormant grows, which lies dormant In straw, stubble, and grasses over winter. When spring comes the spores germinate and float through the air until one of them alights on the leaf of n barberry bush.. Here the spore takes bold, develops, spreads and germinates. In the course of a few days small, yellowish spots are formed, Which when put under a microscope , six-tent- . DESERTTERROR The viper, the real terror of the Southwest, Is found In southern New Mexico and In Arizona. No more repulsive creature than this could well be Imagined. It derives Its name from Its turned-u- p nose, which curlcusly resembles the snout of the hog. Over Its eyes stand two hornlike scales that look something like the goggles worn by chauffeurs. It rarely attains a length exceeding 18 Inches, It hides hog-nose- d appear as small cups. The cups open and. from each one several thousand of u different kind of spores is exThis second spore is carried pelled. by the wind until it reaches a wheat, oat, rye, or barley field. ,There it settles on the stem of the grain and in eight or ten days It produces other spores, which again spread. Most of the burberry bushes are In the cities and towns, many miles from wheat fields. That does not matter. The spores from the burberry attack many kinds of common grasses, including squirrel grass und broom grass. These are found growing in lawns, along the streets, and In parks and many other places about towu. One burberry bush In the heart of a city as big as Chicago could give off the spores that could travel In a and Inshort time to the country-sidfect hundreds of acres. To reach the barberry bushes the spores from the winter stage of the disease will be carried long distances There Is one Instance by the wind. on record . where it Is believed that It was carried GO miles. The spores from the burberry probably go but n comparatively short distance, but they find lodging on grasses and the grasses do the rest of the carrying. The bnrberry bush was first known among the Himalayas of Central Asia, where It still grows wild, it wns early known among the Hindus for the medicinal properties Its berries possessed. Doubtless Its bright red berries and bright leaves attracted attention, and it was carried away to be transplanted as an ornament. ' It came to America some time In the Seventeenth century. Men have long . known that the barberry has some connection with the black, stem rust of wheat, but it has been only In recent years that this connection has been fully worked out and definitely proved. In North Dakota a taw wns passed In 1910 prohibiting the planting of the barberry and requiring nil barberry bushes to be dug up. . Following this, Minnesota. Colorado and Nebraska passed similar laws requiring that all barberry bushes be dug up nnd destroyed. Now the federal government and the wheat states are in the fight. In states . where energetic effort have been made to eradicate the bar v berry, the number of ''hushes found was larger, probably, than wns originally expected. This was partly due to the fact that many of them from thirty to fifty years old were so large that nobody thought of them as bar berry bushes. Many of them were from ten to twelve feet high and of e In the snnd, which Is precisely of the same color, as its body, a circumstance that Is likely to lead the wanderer to tread npon It accidentally. Many sheep herders have been fatally bitten by this reptile. Its fangs are almost like those of the rattler und the venom is fully as deadly. T Clocks. , The first actual clock, according to Harry C. Brearly, was produced about 990 A. D., by Gerbert, the monk, who was the most accomplished scholar of .. ' of Diane Mayo. Also Viscomte De St. Huebert. (3) I heard some one say Mary Pickford is twenty nine years old. But some one else said she was forty nine or fifty. How old is her husband? Have they any children? Thanking you In advance. I remain, a friend A VERY CURIOUS ONE. Malad, Ida. I am very sorry Pauline, but I answered your letter personally, addressed It. to the name you gave me your own, and It has been returned to me. now have your So after much delay you questions'-answered- . (XI Your poems are still on the yet to be found list, but as the quotations are very familiar I am quite sure I will yet find them. (2) The Sheik has been adapted to the screen and shown about a year ago, with Rodolph Valentino as the Shlek, Agnes Ayers as Diane Mayo, and Adolph Menjou as the Vicomte. (3) Mary Pick-for- d is 30 years old and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks is 40. They have no Because of your long wait children. am answering all your questions. ' , Dear Miss Brooks: I have been an Interested reader of your corner for some time, but have never written you before. May I ask a question or two? I am a married lady and the mother of six children. I have brown eyes and brown hair, medium height and build. What colors should I wear and what style of dress? Shouldn't I go to parties. My age is 40. Will you please publish the words to I song Three Leaves of Shamrock?". ' think the flrst line Is: When leaving dear old Ireland In the merry month of June. The birds were sweetly singing and all Nature seemed In tune. I hope to see an answer to my letter In the column of the corner. Thanking you In advance. LONEITA. (1) Thank you so much for sending the corrected song, and I hope some reader will have the song you wish, as I do not find It listed in any available book or catalogue. (2) Surely you should go to parties. It Is a parents some to recreation have and pleasduty ure outside their home. They should make every effort to keep abreast with the times in every way. for they must be familiar with the times In which their children live, in order to govern and advise them wisely and well. Your children cannot be reared by exactly the same rules which were applied to you in your childhood days, as each set generation has an entirely differentnecof customs and environment which essarily must gevern their actions to some extent. As to the style of dress you should wear it would be difficult for me to tell, as there are bo many details to be taken into consideraton to dress becomingly,' which 1 cannot possibly know. In advising you,. As a rule for one neither extremely tall or short, or extremely stout or thin, a dress made on the long, straight line effect is becoming. In colors you should wear, browns, (light or dark), most all Shades of reds and pinks, (if your skin Is clear and not too dark), deep yellows, the lighter shades of soft blues, and navy. Ill try and do my duty to her still; Tho she's broken every vow God, not I, must Judge her now. I promised Id protect her and I will." I oont know tho title of this song,, but hope you may know, and can pub-lis- h the words. ! you Thanking advance E. and K., Duchesne. Well, my dears, you do not know how much I wish I could send you right away, but I do not recog nlze It. Let us hope one of our readers-wil- l and If they do I am sure we It soon for you. I will keep your envelope so I may send it to you direct. this-son- Be Photographed on Your Birthday. 267 So. Main, Salt Lake. . -- . . ht Adv. Dear Miss Brooks: I wrote to you some time ago, your corner very much, so thought I would write to you again. Thanks very much for the songs you. got for me. I think someone wanted the song, Little Brown Jug, so I am send ing It.. Will you please answer a few questions for me? (1) How should a e young girl comb her hair? (2) What are-thlucky months, days and colors for one born In March or August? Wishing you best of luck I remain, EROWNEYES, Roberts. Ida. Glad to hear from you again. Brown eyes, and that you enjoyed your songs. Thank you also for sending "Little Brown Jug. (I) My dear, it depends-smuch on your age, size, shape of face, etc., as .to how you should becomingly comb your harlr that I would rather know something more before ad vising you your age, at least. (2) For one born In March "they say Wednesday is the day, September and May and colors pink, white, black and emerald green. For August, Sunday is the day. January and October the months, and the colors red and' o s ' green. Dear Miss Brooks: I am Interested in your corner and wish you success; and will you please-senme the words to these songs?' Two Little Playmates and My Wild Irish Rose. I remain, . . PUSJSY, Idaho. Sorry, Pussy, but your songs may in the music shops here, so I cannot print them. Glad to have them sent to you, though, if you wish. Price be-ha- BECOME A BEAUTY OPERATOR Study Womans most refined profession la. Stevenson School of Beauty Culture. Employment at sood salary certain. Write faabelle Stevenson Graduate Specialist Prin. 871 Main St Salt Lake. Adv. Salt Lake City Firms assure prompt service and quick returns to these advertisements mention the name ef this paper. To ABRAMS ELECTRONIC METHODS Blood diagnosis A treatment. Write for appointment Dr. G. S. Airry, 303 J udge Bldg KODAKS Sand Us Your Films "VKLVF.TONE Finishing rrnressimi.il and Amnle'-- Supplies SALT LAKE PHOTO SUPPLY CO. Cnlnlne Free. So. St n FURS STORED AND REPAIRED Conference Visitors bring in yc-- ir Furs for ReRaw' Furs Tanned. modeling and Storage. Cozy Fur Shop. 47 E. Bdwy. Dear Miss Brooks: I always read your corner and find It very interesting. Will you plsase PLEATING A BUTTONS . print The Boatmans Song. to the music of Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann. Acrordian. Side. Box pleating. Hemstitching, Hoping you will print it soon, Kid Corset Buttons, Buttonholss, thanks in advance, Parlor; 40 E. Broadway. Salt Lake City. BESS. Idaho. I am always glad to hear that my corner is Interesting to Its readers. BUSINESS COLLEGES Your song can be had in the shops, my alCOLLEGE.- D. L. BUSINESS S. cannot dear, so I print it here, but ways glad to have It sent to you if School of Efficiency. All commercial branches. Catalog free. 60 N. Main St, Salt Lake City-you ao desire. The price Is 35 cents. - , CAFETERIA When visiting Salt Lake Eat at the Kenyon Cafeteria. The nearest to any thing and Main and 2nd Sc everything in Salt Lake. DADT CHICKS Baby Chicks Farm raked, husky little fellows, also chick feed A garden seeds. Vogeler Seed Cm FRUIT BOXES AND VEGETABLE CRATES Frait Boxes, Vegetable Crates. Berry Cups, Butter and Egg eases. Beehive and Honey ICaaea. Quotations on request. Salt Lake Box A Lumber Co. BEAUTY PARLQRS Marinrlie Beauty Parlor Hair goods and Marinello preparations. Mail orders solicited. 408 Clift Building. Salt Lake City. Utah. PORTABLE BUILDINGS GARAGE8 Any make ear. Chicken Coons Out Buildings. Writs for prices. Bowers Bldi RUBBER STAMPS AND BTENC1LI 8eal and Ear Tam Made. Send for sail Prices, etc. Salt Lake Stamp Co. 65 Wat f FOOT SPECIALISTS Foot troubles corrected. Quick andlastlM lief. Dr. A. L. Hansen. 202 Boyd Park Bldg; - , called, Sawed Off Sketches by C. B. Lewis. Do you know of any place I could get a copy of this. It is a collection of short stories. Thanking you, ,and wishing you lots of luck In your good work. Sincerely. PEGGY, PRESTON, Bishop, Calif. I am very glad dear, that 1 have been of service to you formerly, for I' am afraid I cannot help ypu much this time. The book stores can give me no Information about "Sawed Off Sketches.? Perhaps some one who reads this can tell us more about It, as well as the story, a sketch of which you have given. I do not recognize it. We will wait and see, and the information will be forwarded 'to you Just as soon as received. , Monroe-Studios- now-grave- , , g will-hav- ' Dear Miss Brooks: I hope you can receive one more boy Into your corner. I am a lonesome sheep herder. I have been herding sheep for seven years. I never passed the sixth grade, so you will have t excuse poor writing and spelling. I like to read. I that I have seventeen have read through. I And great Interest I do not use tobacco, In your corner. t have never been out with a girl In my life so If I am In love it Is with my horse and dog, but this is a lonesome and lazy life. Will you tell me some good way 1 can pass the time away? Wishing you- much success in your good work and thanking you for your trouble, I am, JACK FORD. Thera will always be room for some more, my boy, and I surely welcome you heartily. I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long, and had I been sure of your postoffice I should have tried to You write you personally, sooner. should be very proud of the fact that you have abstained from using tobacco, for If there could be any excuse for It, your life could well furnish one. If you like to read you could spend your time very profitably In this way. We have a parcel post library here where you can have books sent to you for a certain period of time and then return them.. Or would you not like to have your name printed, with requests for correspondents? Letters are very cheering to anyone when lonely, and answering them would be both Interesting and Instructive to you. If you are especially Interested In some certain supject or study, try to obtain books on this, and you could accomplish a great deal In the way of education along these lines. Don't you think sc? 1 Imagine you have plenty of time for girls and love yet, and It is hard to find better pale than a horse and a dog. Write me again If I can help you In any way. Be ure to send name and address. . LOCKWORK Keys and Locks Fitted and Repaired. Novelty A Sporting Goods Co. Xnadk BAW FURS WANTED Dear Miss Brooks: I am Interested In your helpful corner. This is my flrst attempt to Join It hope I am welcome. I have two questions to ask you. I hope r am m trouble. (1) Ard there any people In thi South Frigid Zone? It so,' what nationality? (2) I was born on October 4 What Is my lucky month,day and color' Thanking you In advance I remain, A SCHOLAR, Plymouth, Utah. You are welcome, and no trouble I a sure you, my dear scholar. (1) No, thi South Frigid Zona Is not inhabited. (2) The lucky day, for one born In Octobei Is said to bo Friday, and the monthi August and December. Your color an crimson, black and light Vlue. |