| Show I I V BETTY V Letters and questions for the department should be addressed to Miss Betty Blair Hearts Heart's Haven Salt Lake Telegram Write only on one side I of the paper It Is necessary to append your name and address but these I are held in confidence and will not be published Lost and found notices I cannot be published in the column I 6 V Dear Miss Blair You YO nave have helped so many others that it suddenly entered my mind to ask you to help me Perhaps my problem will seem a avery very queer one but nevertheless It is my greatest greatest great great- est eat difficulty Vi I hardly know just where to begin but when I was wasa wasa a a youngster my folks used to f frighten me with tales of ghosts and such and nd it seems seems' as as' though this fear has grown right up V with me Of course I am not afraid of ghosts now but I am always upset wh when n I hear of anyone's death or anything like that V I am am a girl of 18 but to tell tel the truth I am afraid to sleep al alone ne Not long ago aso agoa a it man took a fit when I was present and since then I be in the dark with without ut be being beng be be- ing ng nervous I suppose suppose it is my nerves but I have tri tried d to Overcome over ver- overcome Over Over- come this silly fear but I 1 cant can't seem to gain control of myself I cannot stand to look at a a dead person erson and not ev even n when myown my myown myown own brother died could I lo look k at V him I always always' imagine that when I I. I am in the dark someone who i in dead will appear appear to me I try to tell myself that this is silly as no noone noone noone one possibly could return after death but this FEAR remains just the same Miss Blair I hope you youcan youcan youcan can me to get rid of this his silliness sill ness flees or suggest something to help me erie With the V seasons season's best wishes I remain FOOLISHNESS There is nothing in n this whole ide world of which you need be afraid As you go about your daily w work work and rk- rk and nd I hope you pu have something some some- thing very definite to do do- do if dO-if If not the first I I. I advise Is that you im immediately immediately immediately im- im mediately plunge into some work that will occupy your waking thoughts thoughts say say to yourself I am a apart apart apart part of everything that exists apart a a. part of this gr great at cosmic whole T am not afraid of myself for why should I fear fear- that of which I am ams ama ama a s part art V VV Say SaYto to yourself f this body of mine Is composed of so many elements l Hydrogen oxygen nitrogen n carbon carbon car car- bon ph phosphorous potassium sodium sodium um urn etc In all aU sixteen principal elements elements ele ole ments meats and aidin in V all animate and In Inanimate Inanimate in- in animate things exist the same ele ele- ele ments The Life Principle the soul th the spirit whatever you wish to call caU it differs in degree but not In ht kind from VaIl all ll else that Is about you ou Why fe fear r anything And as soon oon as you begin to feel that you are actually a a aV V part of everything and everybody that exists there willbe will wm V be no more fear V You Zou can say to yourself a as a's as you gaze upon the cold corpse that Is only the shell of the Life principle principle pie that was once yo your r friend If do not fear you for that which iJ 1 I Isee see is composed of the Very same material elements of which my own body is composed You have served your our purpose for the time being as my body someday will have done Neith Neither r do o I fear that which Is no longer here the Life Principle for of it I am also a part haying come from the very very sa same e s source uree As this thought of the Oneness of all rn things ings takes possession of you ou you will wm find a p peace ce a a happiness hap hap- an and l i contentment with life lICe animating your 1 being ing V You will find a desire to work warl harder than you have ev ever r done to fill fm your our niche in n- n the tIe world world to uplift and make happy appy th those se who are a apart apart apart part of you in kind differing from you only In degree desree And If there theres ts Is' s to be t e a a renewal r for r the New V Vear v Year ear lend all your strength toward this one purpose of banishing this useless tenant Fear from your mind For your our w waking king existence is is' largely la-gely the creation of your own mind just as your dream pictures are and and In proportion as you try to put Into your surroundings the good things you desire rather than the evil ones ones you FEAR you will find those good things May the New Year bring to you this realization realization realization tion in fullest measure Dear Miss Blair I am a young young man of 23 but look only 20 Can you tell me some way I can look my age ae or more What can I do V Am keeping company with a young lady my own age but she looks her age I dont don't and I know she feels quite a bit embarrassed when with me me even though she likes me and tells me so Maybe I am a fool but I have thought about it for ov over overa r ra a year and am convinced I want to look older THE KID Of all things Here we have not nota a Ponce de Leon seeking the Fountain Fountain Foun Foun- tam tain of Youth buta but a lover pleading with Father Time and his hum human n agents t to hasten him on to the thereal realization real of his his' full years ears But the Instructions In- In in instructions instructions given by Father Time to these same human agents in this regard re regard regard re- re re- re gard are very meager indeed After all it must be more or Jess es a condition condition con con con- of your own mind Make the attempt to lok as old as you feel a mental process or Or r oh happy happ thought since girls girs always wish to look younger younge than they are why not at the same time impress upon your friend the necessity of her trying to appear younger than the rhe really Is V VV I V B But t why WIlY all the agony about It it after all 2 What difference does it really make which looks the younger young young- er or or older Suppose she really were a few years ears ears your senior would that matter at all providing your tastes were In common providing you ou were truly companionable and liked each other REAL WELL VELL Dont Don't allow your mind to be harned harried harried har har- ried ned by this mere trifle Be another another another an an- other Ponce de de' Leon Instead and sing with with the l lyricist the gay song Time you old tipsy gipsy man man Will you not stay Put up your caravan Just for one day ay Oh and sweet girls Will Festoon you with Ma May Time you old gipsy V Why hasten away Dear Miss Blair 1 f have hav enjoyed your cozy corner very much and hope I am welcome Please tell me what materials I need to make a tube one radio receiver and what materials I need for a crystal set Can I make one with witha a crystal detector and a variable vari varia van van- able condenser and a fixed condenser condenser con con- denser telephone receiver What distances will it get Hoping I didn't ask too much and that I am welcome next time NICK Of course always welcome Nick For your YOUl crystal set you will re require require require re- re quire an antenna and gr ground und wire crystal detector tuning coil coll fixed or varIableS variable condenser in capacity or and a pair of head phones Your telephone receiver may be used but not with any very great success as It is s not nearly hearly so so sensitive sensitive sen Len I as are the head phones built I especially jo to pick up the energy of the air V For your tube one-tube set Let you will re require require require re- re quire the same things except that in place of the crystal detector you would require a tube and tube tub socket sock sock- et and would have to have batteries A volt 3 A battery to be used with witha a A tube either of which would be used a 45 volt B battery A one one- tube set will get the sime same distance th that t a larger set will get but not so 0 loud A crystal set will vill get sq within a 30 radius of ten miles from from froma local station Th The materials f for r your your sets will cost you In the neighborhood of of V 15 Unless y you u I are especially interested in making the sets it would be greater economy economy economy econ econ- omy to huy uy them ready made A stamped sell addressed envelope wIll bring you information as to where the sets may be bought should you consider the latter Dear Miss Blair In reading Hearts Heart's Haven the other other oth oth- er night I saw where Mary B. B is looking for some friends and I can can help her to find her friend May Don Call Wasatch 2602 between 12 and 1 Im I'm sur sure May will know something about the others Now may I ask one What is good fo fo fo- chapped lips Wishing you lots o OV success REDHEAD I I- I I Thank you Redhead for the in in- in formation And surely you may ask me too A lotion made of equal parts of glycerin ammonia and camphor which may be used for face and hands will also alFo cure your chapped lips Thank you for forthe forthe forthe the wish and come again V VI Dear Miss Blair I wo would ld like to give a maltese kitty a good home Can you please tell me where I can get one Wishing Wishing Wish Wish- ing you lots of success and a a happy New Year RUSTY I V We can but print your request in inthe inthe the hope that som someone one will have a aI I m maltese e kitten for which they would like to find a a. good home homeT Thank ank I you and the best of New Years to you V Dear Miss Blair I I lam am only 19 years old and have havea a baby girl that will be 2 years old oldon oldon oldon on April 24 We are now going to have a new flew arrival in April 1928 I am happy about the coming corning event my baby girl wont won't be so lonesome I then Nobody else could love them more than I do from the time they first cry to the first steps they take I held my breath as much as my baby did with her first steps They're wonderful beings these tiny mites and worth all the pain and s suffering it costs a wo woo wo- wo man Id I'd be willing to have a good bakers baker's dozen IF that IF-that that great big word that has so much joy and misery attached to it there it-there there was enough money Miss Betty money is the worst curse curse- God could have let man found But I IF F it hadn't been that it might have been something something some some- thing worse I dont don't believe in birth control to toa a certain extent b but t when you never know where the next meal is coming from or when its it's time something was done The poorer I class of people should know this birth control because there are too many men ready to take a mans man's job if he makes a mistake that he never would have made if he had known at the time Do you blame a man if he steals or takes what another another an an- other has more mora than enough of when his own family hasn't food to eat The I U. U S. S lets other men in all the time to take our mens men's jobs There are ten men for every job now That means no work for theother the theother theother other nine What are we to do practice birth c control or keep foreigners for eigners out My hu husband band is a railroad signalman signalman signal signalman man by trade Last year year just be before before be be- fore Thanksgiving they took the them themen themen m men n out of service Then he lie got a ajob ajob ajob job in a lumber camp but they clos closed d down just one week before Christmas He i-fe was out of work then from April until September Then he ne worked one month firing for the D. D R. R G. G W. W as student fireman In November he ho was taken out of servi service e because of decrease in business Not being able to find finda a job h here re he left about the first of December for Green River to see if he could get a job firing that someone told him about Ive I've had one letter since he left He hasn't a job but he is still looking for one Miss Betty my money is gone which was 10 when he left The rent Was vas paid and we had some coal but now the coal is all gone and the the- rent due on the first and no no job I dont don't know where my husband is there is no money for forthe forthe forthe the arrival of our baby and I doubt that my man will ever get a job in ina a world of jobless men Oh if you only knew how dark and black the clouds look Al Although Although Al- Al though there must be a silver lin lining linIng lin ing somewhere it is hard to believe it Do you you think some soe of your readers If so I will be ever everso everso so fO grateful and will try in some way to repay the kindness I wish with nil all my heart that you will have a abright abright abright bright and shiny new year full of joy and sunshine though it be but butone butone butone one tiny joy to be snuggled close to your heart when theres there's trouble abroad JUST ANOTHER MOTHER AND BABE Corner Cornel regulations forbid the printing of your entire letter and J lOU ou yourself forgot one regulation T which is 10 the giving of your ow own name and address in ill addition to a column name You will send it t to tous tous us immediately wont won't you In th the thc meantime our read readers rs with the ever eve generous hearts hearts' will be surmising what it is that you are In such grea great gr at need of not just one thing readers but many We cant can't put you I In touch with the organizations that tha could bring you immediate relief relie because we dont don't know where yo you are nor who you are ares And words Just mere empty words at such a time as this we f feel el are qu quite te futile fu fu tile So you will let iet us know and andall andall i all that we we might say In words w we will endeavor with the help of kind kin readers to put into action There is only one thing we mus must say now and that is In answer answer to your query as to whether we think thinka a man Is justified in stealing from fron one who h has s more than he needs need when his own family is hungry We Wedo Wedo Wedo do say to this an emphatic NO No Noman Noman man mart has a a. right to take from any other man that which does not belong belong belong be be- long to him Some men feel that that tha it Is more more of a disgrace to seek ai aid of the org organized charities than It it itis is isto isto isto to take by f force or subterfuge that which he needs There could be n no social order anywhere If such a state of or affairs were permitted to exist and we weT would Indeed be be re reduced reduced reduced re- re to a barbaric state of affairs But We cant can't think that you were were actually in earnest when you made that statement Hoping to hear from you v very ry so soon n we inject Into this last statement all that we might wish for you In the coming year an and the promise that the auver silver sil au ver vel lining is an actual fact and thank you you for tor your lovely wish for us Dear Miss Blair I ha have been very interested in reading your column for a long Iong time In fact I take the tho paper in order that I might read your your interesting inter inter- eating eting talks every night I I. I guess sometimes we all have ave little ittle hearts heart aches dont don't we Now I have haves a lit littie little lit lit- tie tle secret I would like to confide with you There is every reason reason in inthe inthe inthe the world why I should be happy Two beautiful little baby girls h healthy althy and perfect ct youngsters youngster a avery avery avery very good husband a fairly good little home and my husband has a good job But Miss Blair there seems to be something between us UI two that I dont don't understand I think lots jots of him too but I wonder Iwonder often if he loves someone someone else and isn't as true as he could be to his little family He is away from home half of the time as his work takes takeshi hi him in away V No I am not jealous but I have haye had one or |
