| Show DELAY Y IN WRITING f CAUSES WORRY IN HEART OF MAID t fr By BETTY LAIR i would and Young people save themselves prolonged worry heartache if they would learn this truth about life That change is constant that nothing remains the same and that the change oc oc- curing in themselves should have the trend toward emotional J maturity D Dear r l Miss Blair I am nm a a. girl of or 19 who has many frI friends friend nd I am with the thc boys and lovo love all nU sports I have ha been beon readIng readIng reading read- read Ing your column for tor a 1 along att tt 4 long Ions time and have havo a alot alot alot lot of or faith In you so 60 soI soI I hope you lOU ou can help mc me I have been goIng goIng going go- go Ing steady with a n certain tain boy for three months although he Is Isa Isa isa a boy I have known O 11 I for tor two years Six weeks ago aso he was called away to another er state to work but before belore he left we de- de decided de Wa tided wo we would be married us M soon as ns ho he returned He has been a very try fine tine boy and I love him but two weeks have now passed since he has written to me I cant can't understand this for when I have been slow In answering his letters letters letters let let- he hc has written to me rl right away to find out what was the matter My mother has hns advised me not to write to him until he answers my letter but my father tells me to write to him and find out what Is wrong Sometimes I think he Is not being true to me and now I r think something something something some some- thing Is seriously wrong will wm you please advise e me whether to ro write to him or just to wait until he comes back to me Please answer In the column Instead of at on the air nir as It is is' Impossible for me to hear heu your our 4 o'clock broadcasts LONELY You admit that you have been Mow flow in answering some sonic of your sweethearts sweetheart's letters and that when this happened he has written out of his turn to find out the reason for the delay This really gives you an opening to do the same thing But in your letter do not suggest that you fear rear he has been untrue to you The boy may have been ill iU other conditions may have arisen that have made regular writing a amore amore amore more difficult matter If anything has really happened to make malce him change his mind concerning concerning con con- you and he has dela delayed oed writing to le tell you so it is because for most boys untrained in rules of behavior this would be a very difficult difficult difficult cult thing to do If you wish to give h him m an opportunity to tell you of his change of heart in case such a athing athing athing thing has happened to him sa say so quite frankly in your letter The old sa saying ing that absence makes the heart grow fonder is the exception exception exception tion rather than the rule New scenes new and interests interests inter inter- ests esis help to while the time away and Bod before one is aware to crowd out the old interests Itis It is the most natural thing in the world to hap hap- pen But it doesn't always happen that the old love dies It may be that new interests submerge it snow it under as it were but that with a at renewal of friendship the old ld flame t leaps into fervor once again One important thing absent lovers lovers lovi lov lov- ers have to cultivate is patience i If a boy once is given the idea that thata a girls girl's attachment to him depends s son on the strength of his purse strings and his hi's ability to entertain her in a at away away t way she likes his fondness for her heri rends i ends A boy selects a certain girl be because because because be- be cause he thinks she has all the qualities he admires in girls He flatters himself el that she accepts his attentions because she thinks he is I such a fine boy and not because of his fine car or the amount of of- money he has for entertaining purposes Once let him find out that she prizes him only because he is someone someone someone some some- one to take her places and he is through He doesn't want that kind of a selfish weather fair friend Write your letter continue to le go out and have a good time and whether or not you rece receive ve a n reply make up your mind not to develop I an emotional complex over this boyI boy I I wish it were possible for tor you yo to hear Wednesdays Wednesday's broadcast over ver at 4 p. p m. m which deals with the problem of the first romantic love i STAMP FLIRTATION 1 Dear Miss MIs Blair i We enjoy reading your our column column- very much We noticed how completely completer you fou answer the questions asked and thought you OU would be able to answer j i ours We are 16 and ll year old old girls 1 i who have a a. mutual friend who always I tends sends us letters with the stamp placed In several e different positions We have heard that these positions IndIcate Indicate Indi IndI- cate different meanings Will you please tell us what they arc are Thank you MAY ISAY AND BEN I will tell you what the old old-fa old old-fash- h- h old fash stamp flirtation means but tt Id I'd like to wager the young man doesn't know the meaning of ot the different positions himself He has probably heard that to place a stamp ta tain In iii any but the proper proper prope position means means a heart message of some kind and he is taking a long chance chanc I II I jat at finding the right one The stamp I flirtation is something that flour flour- fished two generations ago and was pIn in its heyday heda in the gay nineties along with eye parasol and glove flirtations But you asked for it so there here it is Upside down on left corner I love you same corner crosswise my heart is another's straight up and down goodbye sweetheart upside down on right co corner ner write no nomore m wore more re in the middle at right hand edge write immediately in center vat at top no on right hand corner at ata is a 1 right angle do you love me in left hand corner I hate you top corner at right I wish your yow friend friendship hip ship bottom corner at left I seek your acquaintance ce on online line with surname surname sur- sur sur sur- name ame accept my love the same up- up Ide down I am engaged at right rightangle rightangle angle same place I long to see you I warned my ray readers years ago I IW W would ld never print this flirtation funer than once a year and if the postal authorities dislike it as much I do I wish they would have havo a aw aw w enacted forbidding writers of to put stamps in any but the place NOTE TO CHICK CHICKs CHICKis is I Yours s Is an advertising problem we may not use in the column ek k the answer from those who I J fr Letters questions and requests for advice should be bEl addressed to BOSS l BETTY BLAIR BLADt HEARTS HEART'S HAVEN THE TELEGRAM SALT LAKE CITY Write rito legibly upon only ono one sido side of tho the paper It is necessary that you ou append the right namo namu and address but bot these will bo be held in strict confidence conti dence and will fill not appear in print Questions involving in advertising information cannot bo be answered 1 I f did the hiring of the persons concerning concerning concerning con con- whom you OU ask VOLCANO MYTH i Dear Miss Blair Will wm you please give Rive me the story of the volcano myth concerning Its origin Thank you ou O O. O D. D I I According to m mythology Vulcan was the divine blacksmith who forged Gorged the thunderbolts hurled b by Jove The ancients believed his home lome to be under a mountain and whenever a a. volcano erupted it was thought to be Vulcan working at his forge His name gave us our word volcano |
