Show I STRONG PREFERENCE i- i I I FOR COUNTRY GIRLS I I 1 EXPRESSED BY BOY B By BETTY BLAIR f Training and experience have much to do with the formation formation formation forma forma- tion of our likes and dislikes but there is also an unexplainable clement entering into the choices made by most people at vanI various various vari- vari I ous times As our genial humorist liked to sa say Theres no accounting for tastes S Dear Deer 1 M iss Blair This has been my fr first t year in fri a city high school and I am here to toay say laY ay I have been ver very much disappoInted disappointed disappointed pointed in high school girls I have met I will admit I Iam Iam V. V I Li am a a country ya yahoo yaI ya- ya ahoo a I II hoo hoot who came to toM M I fl the city expecting I I- I I to have ave all all' my I dreams realized In InIn In 1 I looking beck back on my social life in a cOuntry country country coun coun- try high school I Ican Ican Ican can truth truthfully ully say ay sayS it has the social life i S what what I have seen seen Of af it- it of ll-of f the the city school beat a 3 mile True we haven't as many swell places s to go to for dancing or feedIng feedS feed eed- eed S Ing lag afterward but so o far as es the gang itself is concerned they arc more real than the sophisticated bunch Ive I've run up against in the city schools Ive I've taken several girls out and md can truthfully say ray Ive I've never met meta brained rattle bunch a sillier more The They think they know it all yet et they are not only lacking in brains but also aso in manners They think its it's smart to bleed a fellow of his money and then thra to crow about it ita a afterward Their w wise cracks cracks c-cracks are either cither weak or shad shady And none of them can earl really do anything They dont don't even take a pride in landing good grades but brag about their failures Well Im I'm only a boy and a countr country coun coun- country tr try Jake at that but Ive I've heard the city boys talk about these there smart Aleck girls too end they dont don't think so much of them either cither Ive I've invited some some boys to visit me meIn meIn mein In the country if iI the they want to see real girls My town home girls can cank k keep kaep ep house home and cook can ski and dance and swim and do do all these things city girls pride themselves so much about But I wonder how many city girls do these things without bragging I know few who know krow the first thing about managing manag ing a home I That's Thit's something every fellow lik likes s to see a girl do Well maybe Im I'm all wet but I Ikno know kno one thing Im I'm going back home at the close of school with a. a greater respect for m my town home girls than I had when I left Shallow Shallow Shallow low that's the word Ive I've been trying trying try try- ing to think o of City girls I have met are shallow BANG BING 5 Well there you ou are girls At least there you jou Ou are in the mind of one oneS S country countr boy vho who presumably has had opportunity to make a f few fw w compari sons And Ard while we think comparisons compari compari- t sons Eons are as Mark Twain put it odorS odorous odorous odor S ous GUS still lill we wonder if a little odor wouldn't b bs there much as smoke Indicates fire without their verbal pronouncement What we e need are some male defenders defenders de dc de- de fenders end rs of our city lassies And they dont don't need to tear down the reps of the country girls in order to do so o And as 35 for fore ye e editor of this column column column col col- col- col she happens to know several hi high h school girls who are ore perfect per feet housekeepers when they have havethe havethe havethe the opportunity to show their skill They know the proper way to m make ke kea a bed to dust durt to wash and dry dr- dishes and when it comes to cooking the family dinner the they are there with bells on and all the trimmings Furthermore Furthermore Fur Fur- they're grand sports ports and nd as 85 for pluck well on one of the coldest cold eold est days das of this week h half 1 o a dozen of them motored to Black Rock and swam in that refrigerated water Oh of course our city girls like to play and if they spill over and get a abit abit bit fool foolish h at times who cares Weren't we all there once ourselves Dont Don't take life too seriously Ban Bang Bing If It one of our too smart little city girls took you OU to a Q trimming let lether lether lether her know you are wise to the fact and that it w was as s one of the best lessons of your our life me And maybe shell she'll get wise vise to the fact that it wasn't such sucha a smart thing for her to do after all FRIEND IN TROUBLE I IDear Dear Miss Blair I II I have a friend who has had hod a n alot alot lot o of trouble trouble real real trouble grief and tragedy sickness and h heartbreak heartbreak heart heart- art art- break disappointment and sion zion She lost her only onto daughter also alo an only child who was her sole ole support her home was unpaid for foe end and she came almost losing that except for the timely help offered by the government and she is too aged to work and her health is too uncertain She told me the other day she had been on the verge vere of trying to do away with herself es ts she couldn't bear the loneliness and tragedy of her life I l invited her to my home to luncheon and tried to tell ten her she he was making a big mistake to be so lO o personal about everything Then I got busy talking to some ome of the neighbors and we chipped in and tI Dought nought her a small radio which we e had sent lent to her without any names of donors The neighbors who gave have been more friendly since and they ther tell teU me when they call on her now she seems to be a different woman She listens In to the programs and has connected herself hersel with the world through this mir miracle of modera modern modern mod mod- ern era invention It Ills Is helping to make her for forget ct her troubles Since then I have taken her a number of books bools from the public library which I can get free of COt cost on my card I have chosen books I have ha thought she hc would like I am not writing this to your our column to brag about our great charity but I just wondered if this little mUe experience might not help other women to lift some ome poor heart broken soul in their own neighborhood out of the mire of I despondency Thank you jou OU for the thc space given for telling this little stor story NEIGHBOR i It i is for lor us to thank you Neigh e SS- SS 5 J v Letters question questiOns and requests f for r advice should be addressed to MISS tUSS BETTY BETrY BLAIR HEARTS HEART'S IIA HAVEN VEN THE TUE TELEGRAM SALT LAKE CITY Write le legibly upon only one side of the paper It is nece necessary ry that IbM you Ou append be the right name and address but these will be held in strict confidence confidence dence deuce and will not appear in print Questions Involving ol ad advertising Information Information In In- formation torT cannot be answered I I Ibor bor for this lovely story It Il gladdens gladdens gladdens glad glad- dens our hearts and will make the hearts of our re readers ders beat faster to know that compassion that finest characteristic of the good Samaritan survives in his true descendants J LOSES POPULARITY Dear Miss Mis Blair There's Theres something terribly wrong with me me I dO dont don't t k know ow what it is but I used to be popular and now I cant can't seem eem to make and keep friends I have a clever line and seem to amuse people but that's asfar os as far as my popularity goe goes Ive I've missed the thc most important social functions of the year ear at school and last wt year ear I had three or four bids for everything that came along Can you OU help me to get Cd a lineup on myself m os as It t gets to be very disheartening disheartening disheartening dis dis- dis- dis heartening to m miss s everything DODO Well we hope you jou OU arent aren't as extinct as the bird whose name you chose And that's an idea why did the dodo become extinct There were reasons of course why it just couldn't survive survive survive sur sur- vive the vicissitudes o of life me that surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded it Perhaps i if 11 it could have sat on its grass n nest st to think things out it would have thought something like this thi Now here are my foolish faults and handicaps and here herc on the other hand the forces of life Wc that are pitted against me And out of this melea mele I must contrive not only to live but to live well I If It the flightless dodo bird could I have done just that he might have been alive and thriving today But Buthe Buthe Buthe he wasn't able to line up his chances in any such manner as GS you are Why not take time to sit down and ond make makeIn an In inventory of your our good points and the not good ones improve on the good points and eliminate as far as possible the bad ones And be sure at atthe atthe atthe the outset that any girl must have real character back of 01 any clever line she may s string ring Perhaps youre you're t tak tak- ing this slump in your our popularity too much to heart Forget about it for awhile Think Thirk of others their good points their charm End and nd b bask sk in the sun suit ot of their p popularity for a spell Twill do your our young oung heart arid and sense of values good J |