Show BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB I 1 IS EPITHET APPLIED BY FAMILY TO BOTS CHOICE By BETTY BLAIR Today Joday according to actual intelligence e tests the great majority of stage and screen beauties rank abo the average woman in inI in- in ink k I t Because o of these and other her tests psychologists claim 4 t that beauty and brains like all good fod qualities tend to go together Dear Miss B Blair I I am coming to you to get help an on n a problem that is annoying me I F v For O several months I have been ij going with a girl whom I consider consider con con- t. t sider alder very beautiful My family I has always taken a very keen de de- de i. i 5 light In the tho girls I have taken ou out and has wanted to meet them Especially have they been curious about the present girl I am going with as I have exclaimed so much about abut her beauty Finally my mother set a date and nd I invited the girl to dinner I 1 I introduced my mother to her hers J s over over the telephone and mother v really gave the invitation I was wasi p i i never so chagrined in my life as ast t J over that dinner engagement The girl felt that she was being thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- Inspected Inspect d inside and out by my father mother and two sisters aisters Its It's true that she was going goIng go- go gor r ing ng through the ordeal of a mental Inspection but my family are not unkind as a rule and make a lot lotof of f allowances However my friend simply I froze under the family glare as she ahe called it She was perfectly tongue tied and when she did answer an- an answer n- n direct questions her reply was vas in monosyllables Every very subr sub- sub subject S r under the sun was touched on on in the effort to find something S J that would interest her or draw S her her out to talk but nothing did Antagonistic Reactions I I have never known my family S S S to turn so much against anyone I I S have gone with as they have against this girl And they have S been more unkind than usual by referring to her as the beautiful 5 but dumb I have tried to explain ext cx- cx ex ex- t plain daIn to them that she felt frozen t on the spot by the fact that she S was being inspected and that she was not herself I have told them S that she is an Intelligent girl who S talks well on most subjects but butS S my praises only make malee them laugh My friend also feels very antagonistic antagonistic antagonistic an an- S toward my family though she knows nothing of what S they have said of her She says S she never felt so strongly disapproved disapproved disapproved dis dis- dis- dis approved of In her life She doesn't even want me to talk about them My family is even beginning tomake to tomake tomake make sarcastic and cutting re reS remarks remarks re- re S marks whenever I have a date with the and the f girl girl blows v UP whenever I mention my lamS fam- fam S lly Ily This Is a pretty mess for a young man who likes both his lila n family and his girl to be In IsS Is S there anything you can figure out outS S for me to Say ay or do that will m makeS make ke S them feel differently toward each other Thank you for any lug sug- Dlf S B EN THE TE D THE THE DEEP t 5 In your case the least said the soonest mended When you try to toS S bolster up the girls girl's qualities in your yourS family's estimation S they Immediate Immediate- 5 ly y begin a defense of their own point of view which t. t was quite firmy firmly firm- firm ly y though no doubt mistakenly es- es on their one and only i meeting with her The same thing happens when you say aay complimentary things about S. S your family to your friend She has nothing to judge them by but the painful remembrance of her one evening when she enjoyed the spotlight of their scrutiny Restore Peace reaco of Mind But your own peace of mind may be restored by the thought that psychologists pay pay- I who have given mental k tests and found the I. I Qs of many beautiful women make the claim t 3 that the really beautiful women are areS t S not t the e dumb ones that beauty and S brains go together that some someS S dumb heads may be passably good looking but that is all aU and even their good looks seem to vanish when you come to know them S J It It is true of course that many S beautiful women rely on their beauty to get by in the world and and make little use of their gift of S brains Mores More's the pity for eveni even even- i like the arm done up in a asling h sling aUng the member refuses to function tion at ata a a time of greatest need You can an do much by helping to keep your friend mentally alert Mental gymnastics may be indulged In each time you are together through the kind cind of conversation atlon you ou cho choose se t r S l i Im Impress r s your family with the fact t not argumentatively that your leveral several icy sev eral meetings with the girl should I f have helped you to form a truer opinion of her characteristics than i S their one glaring glance glanc could posS possibly possibly pos pos- S sibly have hae given them After Alter that L the least attention you pay to their uncomplimentary remarks the soon- soon will be ended S BOUILLON CUP cur Dear Miss Blair Please e explain to me the cU- cU quette of the bouillon cup and j tell me why it has two handles Thank ank you F p G. G S 1 I suppose a bouillon cup has s two handles to distinguish It tt from a tea cup Certain it I Is Is- that we must not take up the cup with both handles t It is correct however after we have tested the heat of the bouillon with the first few sips with the spoon to drink the rest of the bouillon as we would drink tea never of course gulping it down all at once PERSIANS FOR GIFT GIFE A A. A. A lovely Persian kitten three months old is looking for a new home Call Wasatch W. Two Persians at East Thirteenth South street Hyland W must also find kind masters |