| Article Title |
Girls Question 'Petting' Implication Made by Correspondents and Call for Opinions as to Kind of Girl Wanted |
| Type |
article |
| Date |
1933-11-14 |
| Paper |
Salt Lake Telegram |
| Language |
eng |
| City |
Salt Lake City |
| County |
Salt Lake |
| Page |
8 |
| OCR Text |
c Girls Question n Petting I Implication i n Made by Correspondents and Call Califor for ir Opinions as to Kind lind of Girl Wanted 0 oo Friendly Gesture Needs No Precedence I i f Club Members Member's First D Duty ty Gossip t Causes Worry Announcing Stork J By BETTY BLAIR Youth Is a time of ot marked change It has always given I Its elders occasion for far alarm Many a bar has been let down lo o present youth which w leh has brought rich opportunities for tor and land supplied d new temptations to poorer Sex II offers JUers most generous chance to youth to display wisdom I Dear Miss Blair Z In answer to the letter of Pat and Mike we would like to say that not all girls think a boy bashI bashful bash bash- l I O ful lul i if he doesn't pet petus F 1 us all the time In Intact tact act we dont don't think very much of the kind of boys who do Of course some girls like petting but there arc area arca a few tew of us who dont The boys bors in our crowd think that a girl r t who lets a boy oy pet pett t J her is cheap I All boys will try it maybe just r to test the girl but after awhile r the they dont don't go back What boy likes to return to something he feels a also cheapens him We like the boys who take us places places' laces laces' for the pleasure and who like a good pal in return and not nota a Just for the fact lct that we might be beV V good p petters A girl doesn't want to go with or or m marry a boy whom zhe she knows has petted with every Z girl he ever took out and md we know kno a boy doesn't want that i kind of girl either cither Were We're not all perfect by any means but we do think that a av v girl who will pet any Tom Torn r Dick or Harry who ever takes r her any place is certainly certainty cheap Now that we have unloaded our chests chests' and told you what we we think we would like lake you boys bos to to 0 tell us truthfully what kind of ofA A J girl you would think the most of one one that's a true pal or friend to tou u foI you or a girl whom you take out she's hc's good petter r- r rust Just because a Also which you would rather marry of the two kinds C Thanks Miss Blair for letting us enter this letter and we hope hopewe we can do something for you some some time DOT AND DASH I- I y We had been wondering lately what had nad become of f our our old timers The Dot and Dash Wally Eagle Little Buttercup and a few of the others and were we're glad to hear from you two again We like to know that our readers readers' of two years ago are Still with Us us and wh when n we learn that others ethers of a still longer reading period period pe pe- have weathered t the e yea years s with i Us we are overwhelmed o r This Is an old question yet one that Letters Letters- questions and requests requests requests re re- re I quests for advice should be bead ad addressed dressed to MISS BETTY BLAIR BLAIR- HEARTS HEART'S HAVEN RAVEN TELEGRAM SALT S1 LAKE Write legibly upon only one side of the paper It is is' is necessary that y you u append ap pend the right name and ad dress but these will be beheld held in strict confidence and will not appear in print Questions involving involving in in- advertising information cannot be answered Letters requiring personal reply must be be accompanied by stamped self addressed envelopes en Ed I is ever new For each year and over overnight overnight overnight night as it were girls have hav graduated from the run yIpping run yipping run stage stage into into formal dresses high-heeled high slippers young oung boy escort period of their lives that brings with it the problem of To Pet or Not No to Pet The things their big sisters in the game have learned should be valuable valuable valuable ble to them Some fledglings are very venturesome They must of course try their new wings themselves To Tobe Tobe Tobe be told all about how to billy fly doesn't help them unless they actually make the attempt themselves And so we welcome a reopening ot t t this question n. n But this time lets let's conduct conduct con con- duct it in just a little different way Will Vill whoever expresses an opinion tell us what his and her school trainIng trainIng train train- Ing has been what their future am ambitions ambitions ambitions and any other details they care to tell about themselves W We can then be able to Jud e whether or not a l love ve for petting or rn ra a dislike I for Cor it has hns anything to do with other character traits and training Come on all you old warriors and young oung ones too and lets let's have an argument argument ar are ar- ar here that will be worthwhile Tell us briefly about yourselves and whether you like best the girl who will or will vm not pet Also of ot the two which you would choose for mar mar- FRIENDLY GESTURE De Dear r Miss Blair Th There re is a boy in one of my classes at high school who I know likes me but who is rather bash bash- ful I am I invited to toa a party to which hI I am asked t to brInga bring part parte nero ncr This boy is very ery friendly and talks to me whenever I see himI him I would like to ask him to go with me but my girl girlfriend friend told me me that it wasn't proper to ask a boy for a date unless he had first asked you for one Is she right MIG By i all means menDS ask this boy as your partner MIg Mfg You wouldn't of course ask him for the kind of date that would entail an n expenditure of money on his part but in this case you are merely offering him hospitality hospitality hospi hospi- in the home borne of another friend or in a place to which hospit hospitality ity has been accorded you ou This sort of gesture gesture ture is motivated by friendship only and is the next thing to inviting a aboy aboy aboy boy to call on you some time in your home It is a privilege accorded every girl CLUB MEMBER Dear Miss Blair Please tell me what are the first duties of a new club member Thank you MRS D D. To pay initiation fees and dues LOVERS LOVERS' QUARREL Dear Miss Blair I have been going around with witha a 1 boy for three months We had ad a 3 quarrel about a week ago Now he goes around telling things which are not true I have not done anything wrong and andI I have always been liked by the boys I have been constantly worrying abo about t this What should I do Th Thanks TROUBLED It It is not the untrue things that are arc said of f us us' that need cause us to worry It is only the things th that t are rc really lly true that need heed give us concern And after all the person perron w who goes about gossiping with the purpose of doing Injury to another c comes mei under theban theban the theban ban of ot censorship to tOn toa a far greater degree degree degree de gree than does the person against whom the poison shafts shau are directed Forget about it and dont don't try tomake to tomake tomake make explanations Your friends dont don't need them and your enemies wouldn't believe you anyway I think IV it was Elbert Hubbard who put the foregoing fore going thought into a an epigram NOTE TO CURIOUS We have no way of testing formulae that appear in syndicat syndicated at- at ed beauty columns We presume they are are reliable le ANN ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY Dear Miss Blair Will you please tell me mc how to announce fn some clever way the coming of the stork I would like to make the announcement at a abridge abridge abridge bridge party about Christmas Christmastime time t to a dozen close friends The event will take place In June Th Thank you MANA Have the s stork ork hidden in a flower flower- covered b basket ket that is elevated up to the chandelier and fastened to ribbon ribbon rib rib- bon pulleys Someone else must be In the secret to enable you to lower the basket by the pulleys at the proper prop er time When lowered the basket forms the thc centerpiece and wh when n the corsages s covering the t top p are nrc r re removed moved by the individual gues guests the stork is disclosed beneath To each corsage is attached on envelope containing con ta taming the announcement erit ent In June |
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