Show I 1 CANYON GAIETIES RESULT TIN IN TALK T ALI ABOUT SHARERS iv r By BETTY BETTY BLAIR BLAm Mrs 1 Grundy has given many an undeserved reputation for or good l and d for ill to those whom she makes it her business to sponsor But l it is easier to live up to a fine reputation she may bestow than to live down on one of the opposite caliber j Dear M Miss s Blair A crowd of or us went skiing last Week We left town Saturday y afternoon alter after noon spent the night in the canyon home of a friend and skied until late Sunday afternoon when we wc piled in our ow cars and came home There were eight eglit of us four boys DOTS and four girls between the ages of at 19 and and 23 Our host at the tho canyon canon home borne was a young man 23 years of age We had supper and sn sat sal around the huge fireplace swapping yarns until midnight There Thero was no drinking and no There wasn't even eyen any two who walked away from the crowd to get In a little private necking But in spite pite of at all our precautions to ta be a B decent and law abiding crowd I have ha heard from at least a n half dozen sources the m moat t. t scandalous scandal scandal- ous stories of how the eight of us spent the night As a matter of fact the boys bos In the crowd went vent upstairs to bed while white we girls slept on couches around the fireplace and took turns putting logs on the fire until morn- morn Ing There was a huge crowd in the canyon canyon can can- yon ran and we saw a lot of or people we kneW We told everybody who asked us Just where we spent the night We couldn't see any reason for covering tip lip the tho fact that four adult boys and four adult girls happened to lose consciousness In sleep under the same roof for at least eight perfectly good hours of the night But what's the use usel I We might as M well have gone ahead Mend and had one perfectly scandalous scandalous scandalous scan scan- dalous time We have tho the name of having had one anyway anWay The thin thing about it is that not one of us felt inclined that way We had a grand grond lot of Innocent Joyous fun We didn't want to take a chaperone She Sho would have h been in everybody's way S and what in the world would we wc have done with her ber or where would we wc have c put her Is there anything that can be done to stop a n lot of ot clacking tongues Or does docs one Just let them clack TEMPEST IN IM A TEAPOT S Think how all the thc Mrs Grundys would suffer for lack lacle of gossip material material ma ma- were there not young people with headstrong Ideas to supply it for them Appearances are all they need to get them off at a a. good start But the the thing that surprises me meis meIs is that you didn't know exactly what would happen before you went wenton on your skiing trip You had your dance exactly as you planned it it and yet now you you dont don't want to pay the piper Though with a little forethought forethought fore fore- thought you should have known exactly exactly ex ex- what the pipers piper's price would be The best way I 1 know to stop gos gos- tongues at least to take the edge off the gossip is to iino ignore e it The flie more you try to build up your own defense the more you will be disbelieved b by those who want to doubt you Our late friend an and philosopher Bob Ingersoll made a wise observation when he said Never make excuses excuses Your friends dont don't need them and yo your r enemies wouldn't believe you anyway Keep this in mind that there will willbe willbe be Mrs frs Grundys so o O l long ng as there I axle are people who are themselves a afraid raid of of- life emotionally starved and arid whose emotional outlet i iS ithe is S the avidity with which they eat up the emotional experiences of other people either through salacious sala sala- cious clous enjoyment or through malicious malicious malicious mali mali- cious criticism If you ou dont don't want them to get in your hair you must have forethought for the inroads they will make on perfectly good reputations as well as bad and consider the chaperone even if you have to hang her on a nail in the i corner while you tend the logs on the fireplace or vice versa MONOTONE VOICE Dear Miss Mu Blair Will you please try to help me with this problem which has become very annoying to me All my life lire I have had a monotone voice olce Recently a a. friend told me there was something wron wrong with my throat and that an operation would do away awny with this handicap Can Cnn you Ou tell me if this is true If not can anything be done for a person with a monotone voice olce Thank you MRS W. W H. H M M. As a rule the monotone voice doesn't come from a structural de defect defect defeet de- de feet or a diseased organic condition condition condition condi condi- tion of the throat Usually the cause lies in some specific lack in inthe inthe inthe the coordinating center of the brain Have you ever tried to make your voice oice express an any of the heights and depths of your emotional or in intellectual intellectual intellectual in- in life Can you ou malce make it express jo joy regret scorn sorrow admiration cynicism rage and the various other shades and degrees of human emotions Letters Lettera questions and requests for advice should br bra addressed to MISS l BETTY BLAIR HEARTS HEART'S HAVEN TIlE THE TELEGRAM SALT LAKE CITY Write legibly upon only ono one sido of the paper It ft t is necessary that you append tho the right numo name and address but these will vill bo be held field in strict con confidence f. f dence and will not appear in print Questions involving advertising information cannot bo be answered t Man Many monotones have b been c e n trained to make their voices express express ex ex- press their emotions It must first be determined that they have the ability to feel the gamut of human emotions since their voices cannot express what they do not actually feel If It you think there is a structural structural structural tural defect you should see a doctor I IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS Dear Miss Blair J There has appeared In print a a. number number num num- ber her of times and I believe in your own awn column a few years ago 1 a letter letter letter let let- ter from a n boy asking Is there a a. aSanta aSanta Santa Claus Glaus This was answered by bythe bythe bythe the editor of at a a. newspaper as I remember remember re rc re- re member it It and the answer was one ono of the most beautiful solutions to this vexing problem I have ever cr seen Can you rou reproduce this letter for forme forme me mc I should be bo most happy to have haveit it again Thank you ou SOPHIA The letter to which you refer is probably the most famous Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas editorial ever written if re requests requests requests re- re quests for its republication may be considered as evidence Originally it appeared as an editorial in the New York Yo Sun at Christmas time in 1897 as as the editors editor's reply to a aletter aletter aletter letter received cd from a little reader But Sophia I have already ady had three requests for this letter and have worked it into my broadcast over for Monday D December cember 23 Will Wil it it be possible for you to tol l listen sten in If not and you OU still want the copy co send a stamped self ad dressed envelope and I will see that you ou have one r PART ANGORA KITTENS S Three lovely old month par part part- Angoras must find new Christmas homes Only those offering good homes need call caU Wasatch |