Show 41 0 this it is your corner make use of it for your information on que sion that are puzzling you it will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully 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 ard it will be given prompt attention all communications will always be held in absolute confidence all letters should be addressed very plainly in pen ard ink to helen brooks box 1545 salt lake city ad je of dear miss aliss brooks the peculiar thing about human be 4 ings is that they like to confide all their joys and woes boes or confess all their sms sins to sympathetic listeners so although I 1 just can cant t classify my par nicular kind of ailment I 1 would like the opinion of others who have had similar experiences I 1 am not at all melancholy or sad nor do I 1 object to scold ings the case is thu thia I 1 am t avi enty four years old not exactly stop d and fairly good looking these are my resources tb th liabilities are more numerous all my life with the exception of the terms spent at high school and business col lege I 1 have lived on an isolated cat tie tle r inch and because all my inter ests are here I 1 shall continue to live I 1 ere I 1 have met very few peo pie and as for the men I 1 generally Y il meet they sort of don t seem to like me nor I 1 them I 1 have been brought up to be reserved and all by myself I 1 ha have hae e developed a case of bashful ness which exactly painful but its there I 1 the girls of my acquaint ance who are really quite wild and reckless seem to have all the good times I 1 appear very much in differ ent outwardly but oh ohl dear miss brooks you know it hurts and I 1 im in very lonesome oh yes I 1 do belong to all the social activities that one finds in a country like this I 1 participate in outdoor sports I 1 try to be a good pal to my brothers and I 1 try to be congenial but I 1 must not know how yes I 1 am jolly and full of fun now why do you think I 1 in not popular and why is it that men claim to lik girls who resent fa millan ties yet they all seem to prefer the other kind are there any men that do not nota of course the fault must be mine is mine but I 1 don t know just whore so can anyone help me just a little thank you for your patience miss brooks and believe me I 1 shall t tamly appreciate your corner if it helps me as much as I 1 am hoping it will UTAHNA utah As a rule being jolly and full of fun spells popularity perhaps you are that only when you are with your girl friends being naturally of the re served retiring type your environ ment has intensified this disposition you can overcome this by making up your mind that from now on you mill vi ill make an effort to really entertain some one each time you are out in other people peoples s society forget self in your effort to do this and think only of their pleasure or comfort you will find it will be he easier each time you make the effort I 1 believe the average man does like the girl best who is jolly and enter taming naturally he does not care for the society of one who is so re served that it is an effort to entertain her but most emphatically there are men who do care for the girl who does not so far forget her dignity and self respect as to allow every man in whose company she happens to be to take liberties that cheapen her in his and her own estimation it may be too that your friends mistake your and bashfulness for pride your letter is nicely written and shows both refinement and aduca tion Perli perhaps aps the men you meet in your rather isolated location have not enough education themselves to ampre date it in a girl I 1 wish you could get away for a time where you might meet men more like yourself who would recognize the qualities you pos sess would this not be he possible I 1 do not mention this to make you dis contented with your surroundings but often a girl is more appreciated away from her childhood acquaint anc es and I 1 feel that you deserve and should have the society of people of A refinement which is sometimes hard to get when in hi ing in a place so re note I 1 hope this little talk will in some degree help you for vou ou must learn how to overcome your reserve to some extent if you wish to make fri fn ads and enjoy life write me again if I 1 can help you further miss hele helen brooks I 1 have often wondered why a dog howls when a musical instrument is it played could you please tell me the reason 9 thanking you in advance I 1 am wilder idaho an intelligent dog is a wonderfully sy sympathetic pathetic loving and at times melancholy an mal end cud music affects him hint much in the same way that it does mot mo t people you yourself are no doubt saddened by some kinds of music as well as made joyous by oth ers A dog uses the only method he has his of expressing his feel and howls when he hears music if you will read some of the wonderful dog stories most of them true by alfred payson I 1 ayson terhune I 1 think you will un der stand this dear miss brooks As pei pel your request I 1 herewith en close th wolds of the song sweet adal ne T B mackay ida it was very kind of you to take the trouble to send this song T B I 1 am ari sure yn in inquirer will ampre e ate it d I 1 thank you for her an inquirer moroni utah below aou ou will find the words nords of the song j adeline for mahich you in faired SWEET ADELINE jl J 1 the evening A hen I 1 sit alone a dreaming ak afi S 4 ISs j f of days gone by love to me so dear there s a picture that in fancy oft appearing brings back the time love when you were near it is then I 1 m wonder onder where you are my darling and if your heart for me is still the same rr the sighing winds and night in gale a singing are breathing only your own sweet name CHORUS sm sweet beet adeline my adeline at night dar heart for you I 1 pine in all my dreams your fair face beams beams you re the flower of my heart sweet adeline ican I 1 can see your smiling face as when we wandered down by the brookside just you and I 1 and it seems so real at times till I 1 awaken to find all vanished a dream gone by if we a meet sometime in after years my darling I 1 trust that I 1 will find your love still mine tho my heart is sad and clouds above are hovering the sun again love for me would shine dear madam I 1 am a young man of 21 and my fiance is 22 should the difference in age make a difference to us getting 7 9 also please tell me hov how lorg a young man should stay when calling on his girl and how many nights a week 7 I 1 suppose you will welcome inquiry ies les from men as well as ladies and I 1 hope I 1 will be welcome your friend in anxiety A D st george yes indeed A D the men are as welcome to this column as the flowers in may the more so I 1 sup pose because they are somewhat scarce I 1 cannot see how so slight a difference as one year on either side coull possibly affect your married life if you did not know there was a difference you certainly would never think anything about it so I 1 should just simply forget it and go a head and be happy my own personal opinion is that a marriage between a man and a girl where the girl is three or four or even five years older than the man is not nearly so absurd and foolish as the many marriages that take place where the man is twenty or twenty five years the girls girl s senior the old theory that a girl ages faster than the man and therefore should marry a man old enough to be her father is about exploded these days when women no longer settle down and consider themselves middle aged at thirty do you agree with mea me look around you vou and see for yourself I 1 should think eleven clock was quite late enough to stay when you call on your fiancee As mutt and jeff say you might use discretion both on that and en on how many nights a week you call if she is a working girl I 1 should say three nights a week was a very liberal alloA allowance ance come again A 1 D we are glad to have you as a member of our circle dear miss brooks we are two girls wondering over some questions so we decided to come to you for help a if you were walking down the street and someone said hello and your name is it pro per for you to say hello and their name or just hello 9 b which is the best piano the or and which is the best of all pianos c can you give us the address of viola dana and ruth rolanda d Is it proper for a boy about 13 years bears old to take a girl the same age home from a party PEGGY AND WINNIE utah a it is correct for you to say hello mrs smith in answer to her greeting of course this is very informal and would only be used be ameen avi een people who are well acquainted with on another b in regard to the pianos my ray dears I 1 hardly feel qualified to ravise you there are many splendid pianos on the market you know and my personal prefer ence if I 1 had one would not amount to much the better way will be for ou to call on your local dealer or dealers and ask ak their advice the IN two you mention are both good so far as I 1 know but if you are ca ing buying one better see your deal er and he can give you in much uch more reformation than I 1 can c the ad drees dress of viola viol a dana is franklin ave los angeles ana that of ruth roland is cire of hal roch ro ch studios los angieb d A way is geri benr r liy by provided for getting young children home from a party so that it would hardly be necessary pec essary for a boy to act as escort however should he lie be go ing in the same direction or if for any reason the girl is returning home alone it would not be out of for him to go with her or f for or a group of children to go tog together ether dear miss brooks this is my first entry into your cozy corner but you have helped so many others that I 1 decided to ask you a question will you please plase publish the words to the song entitled memories 7 thanking you very kindly I 1 SHORTY tooele thoele utah yes shorty with pleasure her it is MEMORIES round me at twilight come stealing steal loff shadows of days that are gone dreams of the old days revealing mei i ries of loves golden dawn CHORUS 11 memories memories drear drears s of love so true 0 ar er the sa of memory I 1 im in drifting back to you childhood days wildwood days among the birds and bees you left me alone but still you re my own in my beautiful memories sunlight may teach me forgetting bri bring ng thoughts that are new atwil brings sighs and regretting moonlight means sweet dreams of you dear miss brooks As you have helped so many other others out we decided to ask you to help ua us too we are two girls 17 and 18 19 and have t two boy friends 19 and 20 sometimes they tell us that they like us and other times they say they dont don t do you think they do they take us everywhere we want to go and our folks do not object to us go ing with them the first day we met them they asked us to go to the show with them but we refused to go should we have gone gonea they have aked asked a ked us to gu go with them to another town to celebrate the of july our folks said we may go if we want to should we go goa 9 when we ue are with a crowd of other people our two friends drink whiskey in front of us girls Is that right for them to do doa they are always telling us about their other girls what should we do our folks like th ahm ni very much ard YA e do too but we are troubled d to know what we should do should we stop going with them or should we forget th thir ar faults and go with them just the same we girls have agreed to go by your advice so please tell tall us what to do rhan thanking king you in advance and wish ing you success in your helpful work we remain yo your ur two friends TILLIE AND VIRG VIRGIE IE mackay ida it looks to me as though your boy friends were either simply joking with you wl when en they say they do not like ou on or else they do not know their own minds and are playing fast and loose looe with you since your own p 0 pie like these boys and do not object to your go ng with them it is a little littler bit hard for me to advise you but my judgment is that boys who so far for get themselves as to drink whiskey when in the company of their girl friends especially in these days when prohibition is supposed to be in order must be a little off color and I 1 should hesitate about spending much of my time with them no do not forget their faults at least not such glaring faults as drin drinning Ving in your presence but let them see that such actions do not appeal to you and that if they do not care to discontinue them you will not go with them I 1 am sorry my reply will be too late to reach you in time to be of any use to you in answer to our query about going to another town with these bos bo s for a of july celebia tion but you can judge from the above what my advice would be dear miss brooks I 1 am very interested in your corner and always turn there first in read ing your last answers I 1 find an in wants the words of the song sweet adeline published so I 1 am sending you the words of this flus song I 1 have a question to ask you will you please tell me the name of ida ho s state flower and something of its history thanking you in advance I 1 am LILY richfield idaho thank you lily for sending in the sorg idaho s state flower is the golden rod which is a well known f fall all blooming bico nung plant with stems variously shaped leaves and heads of small yellow rayed flowers often clustered in pa particles the gelden golden rod red is very prolific and grows wild in ida ho and western and middle western states only one species is to be found in europe it is 13 also the iowa state flower deir miss brooks 1 what do you think is the pro per wages for girls 14 or 15 years old for doing house work tending chil dren and helping with laundry and cooking 7 do you think it is proper for any one stopping at a boise to inquire for intang in for the location of a certain place to go to the back door or the front door I 1 thank you BLUE EES of wendell 1 there seems to be no fixed price for genral house work the price paid spending dp ending upon how capable the help is for a girl 14 or 15 the pop ular price to be from 4 to 6 per week care of children alone is usually paid for by the hour 10 to 25 cents per hour is the usual price 2 it would be proper to go to whichever er door was most convenient com ement I 1 should think to inquire the location of any certain place dear miss brooks we are greatly interested in your little borner and would appreciate N ery much an anaw to this question there ar three g ris with whom we have associated for years and now thes gails hae taken the habit of curning away aay sec secrecy rely even if we ere rere at one of the girl s homes what should we do doa th thinking tricking you in ad vance we are A B AND D spanish fork the girls probably intend deir behavior to b tak n as a joke but it is certainly v ry rude if yoa show chow a little indifference and d do not call on them quite so olt n they w 11 prohibit ably reil real ze tl ti ey ar not doing as ta they ev would like to be done by if tt ti ev still continue to be so impel te ta tit e oil thi s g to do is to lea leave e tl em n I 1 i V alone dont don t Y you ou si s |