| Show TRY TO BE YOUR YOUR AGE AGE IF YOU KNOW INOW WHAT IT IS Hearts Haven By BETTY BLAIR Your our correct age It may not always i be reckoned from the da day and year you were born You may ay have an inheritance that that- speeds up up your mental and physical al processes processes You may be t X mature person at 16 18 20 or maybe not until you are 35 Some people are adolescents adolescents- all their lives I 1 It is wise in considering all problems of youth to think of age as having three aspects the chronological the biological the men- men tal And there is a fourth not always mentioned but uniting the three three into the sum total of personality which some call the spiritual age It It is felt definitely at at such times as this this this-a a nations nation's THANKS THANKS- GIVING DAY r Dear Miss Blair I am a girl of 17 who on my birthday became engaged to a boy with whom 3 I am very much In love We intend waiting a ar r year year- year and and a half before thinking f getting married People think i. i we are too young but hut if we wait waits s f. f p j 1 dont don't you think we will make malte it K c Also jan can can you give me some suggestions as to what to give him for a Christmas gift I have p I been thinking of buying a a I nice ring i-ring but my mother thinks it J would be improper unless we were r married WORRIED Time and your own integrity and that of the boy together can tell whether you two will be married In the appointed future I agree with those who think you too young to be engaged But not knowing either you or the boy mine can be beno beno beno no no more than a a.- a. snap judgment You You may be a girl a-girl girl older than your chronological age in mental and physical fitness as preparation for marriage But a year and a i half is a long time to be engaged and you must be careful not to exclude yourselves too much from other ather young people and so narrow your mode of existence and your experiences Youth is a time for growth and nd change Seldom can can one know ones one's own mind at the age of 17 because with the physical changes taking laking place mental changes are bound to occur At 17 you arent aren't yet ret out of scho school l. l There is so 50 much to learn to help make the thep p pathways of life a bit smoother for you Dont Don't let thoughts of love and marriage crowd out these other important things I agree with your mother that you should not give the boy a ring for Christmas A book from his favorite author a scarf that you monogram yourself subscription to toa toa toa a magazine that deals with his favorite favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa hobby pen and pencil set leather billfold a box of Christmas confections that you make your your- self Learn his tastes and try to conform to these in your selection of a gift for him TORTOISE SHELL KITTEN Two months old very lovi loving g and appreciative of good care is this tortoise shell sheil kitten seeking a new home Call Wasatch W or see him at apartment 7 First avenue MADE HAND GIFTS Dear Miss Blair Will wm you please tell me where I can get a book showing simple things to make for Christmas presents some things that are inexpensive yet nice LINDA at The Tribune Telegram Home Service has a booklet called How Howo to o Make a Doll House and and Other Made Hand-Made Gifts It may be had hady by y sending 15 cents to that department department department depart depart- ment for it Gifts for every member member memer mem- mem ber er of 01 the family are described I therein Watch the Household Arts art work in The Telegram and send for or the patterns of things you like I 1 Ito to o the same address I have a holdover letter from I 1 Another Housewife that arrived arrive too late last year to include he her ideas of made home-made gifts Sh She says I always tried to fit th the designs to the persons person's personality I experimented experimented ex ex- with paper and cellophane cellophane cellophane cello cello- phane crafts pieced pictures on velvet designed craft paper jackets jacket for books made lampshades from exposed X-ray X film made plaster plaste bookends designed and made do doll I clothes Perhaps some som of our readers have hav other gift ideas they would send us STORE YOUR BULBS Note to Reader In Mondays Monday's column I stated in error that tha gladiolus bulbs should be stored in sand and dahlia tubers could remain In a sack if stored in a cool place The process should b be reversed the dahlia tubers in th the sand the gladiolus bulbs in th the sack both in a cool frostproof place Look at the dahlia tubers tuber about every three weeks through the winter to see th that t they arent aren't shriveling If you see the beginnings beginnings begin begin- of this appearance sprinkle a very little water over them no not enough to start them sprouting LANDSCAPE GARDENER Dear Miss Blair Can you tell me where I can get information concerning landscape landscape landscape land land- gardening I have chosen this to be my vocation and thought now would be a a. a good time to start learning something about it I am only 16 years old and attending high school Do you know some books and magazines magazines magazines maga maga- I could read about this subject subject subject sub sub- Thank you J T. T K 0 t c Two excellent magazines for which to subscribe according to our garden editor Maud Chegwidden who is also a landscape gardener are The Flower Grower and Better Homes lomes and Gardens Practical Practical landscape Gardening by Cridland I Ia a good book on the subject may maybe maye be e ordered through any eny Salt Lake I City book store j It certainly Is a nice thing for you at 16 to know what you wanto want to Lo o be and do in life and to be on 1 your way Success to you from i ithe the he time of the starting gun t |
