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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH N Si Dear Miss Brooks: Your corner has helped me w many ways, but as yet I have never written to you. There are a few questions which I would like you to answer if you will. (1) Is It proper to chew gum at dances or in any other public place? (2) If there is an entertainment in yo lr home town is it proper to go elsewhere to a similar emertainmentl ivhiain, Thanking you in advance, smd BROWN EYES, Idaho. in any public place is gum Chewing Dear Reader: This is your corner. All questions submitted will be cheerone wishes to vulgar. Brown Eyes. If fully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. chew gum it should be dqne in the Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, but will privacy of ones home or better still, be sent if a room. (2) It would show more loyalty stamped envelope accompanies the request. enter, Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany to your home town, to attend thecircumtainment given there, but each letter or no reply can be made, stances might make it all right to go ts All communications are held strictly confidential. of town. You can better In requesting poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or the the oneof out that than I can. name of the author is necessary in order to find them. Please send stamped, judge addressed envelope also with these requests, so they may be forwarded directly Dear Miss Brooks: to you. We have beefi reading the letters Im Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, your corner and we enjoy them. May we join? We want to ask yoq a few Salt Lake City, Utah. (1) Is it proper for a boy questions. SONGS AND POEMS RECEIVED at time a as sort! I can have just to kiss a girl after taking her some good The following songs and poems have a dance or party as anyone. place? (2) Is it proper for girls of been received during the past week, 14 and 16 to go with boys? (3) Should Wyoming. I PRISCILLA, a boy and a girl go any place without and I wish to thank each one for their Dear Miss Brooks: other people?, (4) Should a girl go kindness In contributing them: subon the You ask for expressions car riding with a boy after a short Little Black Me. that a I know of girl ject As Your Hair Grows Whiter. petting. acquaintance? Thanking you in adliked to be petted and she had lots of vance and wishing you success. , Just a Babys Prayer at Twilight. beaux but she soon 'got too old for the METTA and JAZZ, Idaho. Snow Deer. swell lovers, as the little lady calls Rainbow. Yes, surely, you may join. (1) want class didnt and better the them, Rand In Hand Again. Hardly proper, girls, but quite a popsuch a cheap girl for a wife or one that ular pastime it seems. (2) I do not every body could play with, so she got think a girl of fourteen should be goREQUESTED SONGS AND POEMS: These songs and poems are on the left. With best wishes, with boys. It is all right for out ing E. E., Idaho. a girl of sixteen to go occasionally, requested and list: P. S. Miss Brooks, if I write all I 'H) Not at the age vou mention. For Every Boy Thats on the Level. (4) know of my alphabet will you help me No. Why? Just read the papers, dear, Is There a Kiss For Me Tonight? in answer fill in some is Just the rest? your 'fills question answered in way Song or poem beginning: ' rible column. in the daily papers nearly every "I can ride the wildest broncho I do not know just what you mean in Lonesome: accidents, kidnappings, etc., etc. Cho. Oh Im lonesome for you, your post script, so shall have to ask Please dont do it. You are ever so you to explain, then I will be glad to welcome. .Oh, Im lonesome tis true, etc. help you if possible. o Dear Miss Brooks: Eyes (Coon song.) ! Dear Miss Brooks: I would greatly appreciate it If you Are Ton From Dixie? Tomorrow. I have enjoyed reading your answers would send me or print the song, Anchored ; every week, and I am sure you are Theres a Rose in Old Erin That (1) When a girl doing helpful and satisfactory work Blooming for Me. Flying with flowing sail Over the bounding Sea. in so ably answering all the many first moves to a strange city unknown, ' That Salvation Lassie of Mine. questions that are asked. I cant think how can she make friends? (2) If a of a question to ask now, but there is boy you dislike asks you to attend a Why Should I Cry Over You? an Old Glory. song I would like very public gathering with him and you In the Valley by the Mohawk. much to get the words of. I cant dont want to go, how shall you tell remember the titles but the chorus goes him? I would like to ask you some more questions but as two is the limit like this: Dear Miss Brooks: I will close hoping I am not too much I am a girl of fourteen. I weigh 115 There are friends that we never bother. Sincerely, forget, pounds, and I am about 62 inches in A CURIOUS GIRL, Utah. height. I am bigger than my sister There are friends that we ever hold If the song is sent in, or I can locate who is sixteen and weigh more than dear; my sister that is eighteen although she Though we meet with a kiss in a mo- a copy, you shall have it, of course. (1 ment of bliss, About the best way, I think, is to afis taller than I. I get poked fun" at filiate with some church. In that way sometimes for being so fat. Do you And we part with a sigh and a tear. one to am I of words the you can beoome acquainted with the enclosing think I am any I nave With best the wishes, songs requested. young people associated with that parquite dark skin, brown eyes and meMARVA, Utah. ticular church and your circle of dium brown hair, my face is not too You you for the song, Marva, and friends will gradually widen. long nor round. I think I look better I Thank some am our of very hopeful that with my hair puffed out on the sides might also Join the Y. W. C. A., or the and will or some Girl readers, such organization. Scouts, than I do with it just combed back and generous recognize braided. Could you suggest a girlish send in one for which you ask. I do (2) Tell him you are sorry but you fashion in which I could comb my hair hope my corner is as helpful as you have already made other arrangement without snarling it? Wishing you think, and appreciate your kindly for going, or that you have a previous wishes. much success I am engagement, or something of that sort. Ask the other questions another time, A UTAH GIRL. Dear Miss Brooks: dear, and I thank you for obeying th You are about nine pounds overI derived much pleasure from rules. weight, my dear, which isnt so much ourhave little corner and feel that I and dont you let them tease you about do my part to help it grow, so it but get real busy and see if you Ishould am sending in two of the songs asked cant lose that nine pounds real quick. for last week. I would like very much If you are now eating lots of sweets, to get a book of Scotch Songs (such fats, white bread and potatoes, just as are sung by Harry Lauder) and if forget them and substitute all the tunn prompt service and quick return reader has one and wants to sell, To to these advertisements mention the name ad fresh green vegetables and fruits you some or loan to would I hear trade like it, this paper. take all can; the exercise you can, and words and music.) take it strenuously, not forgetting a from them. (Iinwant advance the for favors you ' FAMOUS ELECTRONIC TREATMENTS daily walk. Let your other exercises be Thanking wishing best success to the corner, whatever is available to you whether and I BONNIE Abram's Idaho, Dr. R. E JEANNE, remain, Diagnosis & Treatment. horse-bacbe it k swimming, riding, How sweet of you, Bonnie Jeanne, to Maupin, M, D. 384 Judge Bldg.. Salt Lake. tennis, etc., but try to do solnethlng wish corner. our to Thank you like this every day. If you do this I am so much. help is BOARDING SCHOOL such thoughts and very sure you will soon reduce the deeds that Ithave just our corner made posROWLAND HALL School necessary amount. Suppose you try sible tot Girls made it grow. I have only Episcopal. School of Highest Standards. arranging the hair by parting it one ofand wish now, so will the you songs for Splendid place your down daughter. Boarding the middle of the back, hold your envelope for the other one and straight Day Pupils. Kindergarten. Grammar. braid each side close to the ears and which On the Accredited List of American am soon sure and will I High. arrive, roll the braid in a knot over the ears, Schools. Apply to Principal. Salt Lake. it be lovely if some one should arranging the hair about the face in a wouldnt a book of scotch songs such as soft, becoming manner, by either part- have wish! am would sure the rest BEAUTY HINTS I be ing it in the middle or on the side with you a few bangs if you like them. Hope easy. I will gladly forward any infor- Hair goods manufactured, face powders, cream to mation wish have, may you anyone this proves to be a becoming style to toilet waters, etc. Mail orders solicited. We pay right on to you. you. It is simple and girlish. pstge. MarineJle Beauty Shoppe, 403 Clift Bldg To DAWN, Smithfield, Utah, and BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES Dear Miss Brooks: Jackson, Wyo: Having finally Having found many pleasing an- Violet, a received of I Fawn Any book you want by mail, C. O. D copy Spotted BOOKS swers in your Between You and Me am Deseret Book Co. 44 East So. Temple glad to reproduce it here: corner, I am going to ask you a quesSPOTTED FAWN PATENT MEDICINES tion for the first time. (1) When it is time for your boy friend to leave your It was a hundred years ago, Preebairne Berbe for Stomach trouhouse at night, which one should make When by the woodland way, kidney diseasee. Satisfaction guaranteed or the first signs of Ihis fact? (2) What The traveler saw the wild deer drink, bles, 426 W. 7 S., Salt Lake City. refunded. money boinchen or the crop Is the proper thing to say at this time. spray; a hill whose rocky side oer SONGS ft SHEET MUSIC Wishing you much eaccess in your Beneath a bowered mead. grassy work, I remain And fenced a cottage from the wind, new and old. All kinds. Sheet music by A WONDER, Utah. SONGS mail. COD. Beesley Music Co. 6? S Maia Your boy friend should take his A deer was wont to feed. leave not later than 10.30, when mak- She only came when on the mead FRUIT BOXES ft VEGETABLE CKATES ing a social (all, and should he not The evening moonlight lay, and no man in secret which knew the haunt do so, it would be quite proper for you BERRY CUPS & CRATES! ftSfiffiSgSIr she walked by day. to get his hat and smilingly Inform short notice. Sait Lake Box & Lumber Company. him you do not make a practice of White were her feet; showed a spot of silvery LEITHS TRADE BINDERY keeping later hours than this; ask him Her forehead white to call again, and bid him good night. printer binds old books, magazine!, eta. That seemed to glimmer like a star in Your Loom leaf device all kinds of ruling, Co. reo- autumns hasty night. To A. B., Enoch, Utah: My reply to as And here the whippoorwill, sang HOME LEADS TO HAPPINESS letter been has returned marked your Unknown. If you still wish this in- She cropped the sprouting leaves, were And here her heard rustling steps formation, please send me your correct of still October eves. address. Once in autumns golden time, she rang Why pay rent when you can own your owa home? If mortgage is crowding you we can the wild invade. I have necessarily had to cut down of it for you. some of these letters in regard to pet- And found the pheasant nor the deer, take care FIDELITY BUILDING ft LOAN- ASSN and wandered home again. ting, owing to the lack of space. Salt Lake City, Utah Next evening shown the waxen moon, Helen Brooks. No waiting turns No commissions Beside the silvery-foote- d deer there Dear Miss Brooks: grazed a spotted fawn. USE PERSIAN HAIR TONIC This is the first time that I have ever The cottage dame forbade her son to aim the rifle here; written to you, but I have been reading KEEP YOUR HAIR SOFT AND GLOSSY your corner for some time and I have It were a sin, she said, to harm or The perfect brillfantine for sale in Barber received much helpful advice from it. fright that friendly deer; If you have hair or and Drug Store I saw the letter from the girl who This spot has been my pleasant home Shops trouble, write scalp ten peaceful years and more. wanted to know why petting was SALT LAKE when the moonlight shines THE GIE GEE CO., wrong, so I thought I would offer my And ever feeds before our door. KODAKS ft SUPPLIES she opinion on the subject. I do not think to watch her as she feeds, and petting is right because I think it I love think that all is well lowers a boys opinion of you amd I am KODAK FINISHING creature haunts is EXPERT sure it lowers your Then While such a gentfe only possible by employing capable workwe in dwell. which the place men Our men know how if a boy is the petting kind he usually here Commercial Is the kind that will talk about a Shiplers Next evening shone the waxen moon as girl 144 So Main Salt Lake ity as after she lets him pet her. Some girls before; sweetly say that they arent as popular. Well, The deer upon the grassy mead wag BUSINES8 COLLEGES maybe they arent in a way but they feeding full in sight. can always be sure that boys respect He raised the rifle to his eye and from L. D. 's. BUSINESSOLLEGeT School of Efficiency. Ail commercial branches. them even if they do say they are stow. the cliffs around I have gone some with a boy who re- A sudden echo shrill and sharp gave Catalog free. 60 N. Main St, Salt Lake City. back its deadly sound. spects girls enough to not be the petSUGAR SACKS SALE ting kind and I like him better than Away into the neighboring wood the : startled creature flew, any boy I have ever known. If the boy 60 New Sugar Sacks 81.00 plus postage 10c. a girl goes with is the right kind he And crimson drops of moisture lay Send M. O. your check or currency. Also 6 amid the glimmering dew. will not drop her when she refuses Boy or Girl years wanted in every town. Nice work. Good pay. Mail Ad foe wholesale petting. The Idaho girl said Next evening shone the waxen moon as details. Zip Mlg. Co., P. 0. Box 168, Salt she liked to be petted. Well, I will sweetly as before. Lake. admit that one can get a thrill out The .deer upon the grassy mead was seen again no more; FUR SALE of it but I don't think I am missing anything by not allowing it. I am The red men say that here she walked, Cl ID C1E Come to the August Pur Sale Cosy a thousand years ago; almost eighteen and I have been going GALL rUR yur Shop, 47 East Broadway. with boys about two years and I have They never raised the war whoop here, BEAUTY PARLORS FOR SALE and never swayed the bow. decided that I like the kind that are not long on petting best of all. I sup- At night the red men came and burnt the cottage to the ground eount ill health. Choice Location. For Particpose the Idaho girl would say I was ulars write. Dept B. oo Box 198, Salt Lak but I am nothing of the And slew the youth and dame. I have been interested in your cornet About arent IS, to mall it you? you. (2) Dear Miss Brooks: for some time. I never have written I have read your corner for sometime before and I hope I will be welcome. and have enjoyed it very much. If I Dear Mise Brooke: (1) I was born May 22, 1913.and What but am Here I again bothering you, will send you the song Blue Bird, may day of the week was I bornar a what when I write that I again, are dark promise my colors? My eye I join? (1) Where could I buy the there so about much trouble be wont book On the Heart of Thunder Moungray. (2) If a person is thin wnat Have the you (I) questions. to fat? much asking eat how Wishing get they tain, by Zane Grey and on the River of Ve- should would It cost? (2) How eld do you song, Midnight you success. I remain, MICKEY, Utah. (2) Will you please ask somewere born on Thursday, Mickey, You think I am by my writing? Good luck, nice? one to write to me, who is 14 and a and your colors are supposed to be red! From BLONDY, Wyoming. I think maybe you can ask in the and pale yellow. Drink lots of water, Thank you for the eong, and sending girl? please. Love and best wishes, and buttermilk and sweet cream. Mix It surely entitle you to join, but you paper, a half pint of sweet cream and a quark would have been welcome anyway. (1) from, NET NEEN, Idaho. of buttermilk and drink at least this The book Heart of Thunder Moubeamount daily, and twice that would me bothered at all; You E. havent 1 A. Zane but not ntains by Grey, by still. A very good book on thl be bothered. (1) not will cause I 1917. In just was and published Bingham by Lulu but perhaps subject is Diet and Health, K may be had here in Salt Lake for 85c I do not have this song, Petere. Perhaps you can get thi If yeu care to have me. some of my readers have. (2) Here it Hunt postage. nt your Library. flu be glad to buy it for you and is, you see, in the paper. , carefully placed by hand at the rate of seven or eight kernels to the bilk After the first of June the beans were put in, and lastly the squashes were planted at the time when the wild mKDAXV'GRff: HU&SJ R&rOZZD 1 By ROBERT H. MOULTON AIZE, or Indian corn, In its present form represents one of the great achievements of prim- itive planters, the North American Indian. . It came originally, it is now gener--a 1 1 y accepted, from southern Mexico, and was eaten by the Maya tribes. At first it was nothing more than a coarse grass, on which were tiny ears resembling the top of the wheat stalk. Each grain had its own envelope or husk. Occasionally, even now, grains of corn are found which have their original husk, thus showing how the maize of our day reverts to type. The plant was essentially tropical, and even now, after centuries of culture in the temperate zone, It Is sensitive to frost. The tribes of North America saw the possibilities of the grain and hastened its evolution. There has been by white farmers, yet as a matter of fact the corn culture of the present day is practically as It came from the hand of the Indian. He has adapted and modified it to the various sections of the country by a process of careful selection. It had been accepted for many years that in the Dakotas and much of the Northwest It was Impossible for the white farmers to grow corn because all the varieties tried were killed by frost. Recently it occurred to some scientists that despite the drawback of the weather the Mandan Indians of the North were raising corn. An expedition made a study of the agricultural methods of the Mandans, and it that for centuries the developed farmers of the tribes had been developing a hardy corn. The seedhad been selected from year to year from stalks which showed no effect of frost The stalks of this variety as so stunted that they are more like shrubs than the plant which is common in other latitudes. One of the most interesting agd remarkable facts in connection with Indian corn is that three tribes the Hidatsa, the Arikara and the Man-dan- who lived along the Missouri river and Its tributaries in North Dakota, were practicing a highly developed system of corn culture at the time of the first recorded visit of the while man in 1738. Archeological evidence secured from the Indian remains of the section indicate that corn was being raised in this district three or four hundred years ago. As a matter of fact, Jacques Car-tiethe first 4European to enter the St. Lawrence, observed large fields of growing maize at Hochelaga (now Montreal) in 1534. exactly 389 years ago, and the tribes between northwest Mexico and the plains of Kansas were found to be growing it when visited by Coronado In 1540. The ease with whirh maize can be cultivated and and its bountiful yield, conserved, caused its rapid extension among the Indians after it came into use. With the exception of better tillage the method of its cultivation is much the same today among civilized men as amoug the natives. One would naturally expect the southern and eastern Indians tobe good corn raisers, as they lived in regions of abundant rainfall and sufficient summer heat. It is really astonishing, however, that the upper Missouri Indians, living under semi-ari- d and northern conditions, should develop com raising to a point that was not surpassed by any other tribe In America. This com culture was of such Importance that the early fur traders established a distillery in 1833 cross-breedin- g r, Cooking the Cook 4 They were not so tied up with red tape a few hundred years ago as we are, ana their justice was more ideaL In the vear Henry VIII married his second wife, Anna Boleyn, one Richard Rore was cook to the bishop of Rochester. Something went wrong with the soup one day, whereat sixteen people died. It may Just have been that his pots were d'rty; but he twas accused of trying tt poison bis ZKZtA7r IZ&ZZ I2EZD at Fort Union, which was located at the mouth of the Yellowstone river. Since the Indians were the first dryland farmers and com raisers of the Northwest, the com history of that region naturally begins with them. Their com was the last of the Indian corn to be adopted by the white man and the early flint group of today is ' directly derived from It. According to Scattered Com Woman, an elderly Mandan matron, and daughter of the last Mandan corn priest, the Mandans had at one time what they considered to be thirteen distinct varieties of corn. The varieties, some of which have now undoubtedly disappeared, were always kept separate and planted in separate fields to prevent mixing. Each family kept and planted one, two or three sorts, which were passed along from one generation to the next, and no other kinds were planted in the family fields. The fields were not large from our viewpoint, but when we think of the labor required in clearing and tending them with the rude implements used, the slzfe seems considerable. The Indian acre was not of definite size. It consisted of seven rows of com with a row of beans between each two rows of com. The length of the rows, however, was not fixed, and the land occupied by the squashes, which were alwftys a part of every garden, and by the sunflower, was not included in computing the acreage planted. As near as much questioning of Scattered Com Woman revealed, an Indian acre would average between a third and a fourth of one of our acres In area. The fields were usually located both on the bottom lands and on the higher and drier first bench lands along the Missouri river. In the brushy bottoms the land was first cleared with a stone ax, a spot usually being selected where there were not more than one or two large trees, which were left standing. After cutting, the brush was burned in heaps on the ground, which was then raked over. After this the soil was dug up with a heavy, pointed ash stick some four feet long to two inches in diameter, and one-hacalled a digging stick, in hills about twelve inches In diameter and about a long step apart for corn. The beans were planted somewhat closer together, but all rows were a long step apart The field was frequently fenced with brash or wickerwork barrier to keep out the various animals, both wild and domesticated. When the fields had once been cleared the preparations for planting in ensuing years were not so arduous. The old stalks and vines, together with the dried weeds and brush still left on the field, were raked Up with a rake of wood or of deer antlers, piled in heaps and burned. Then the old roots were removed and the hills were again dug up and the earth broken up with the digging stick and bone hoe. The first seed planted in the spring was the sunflower, which was put in around the outside edge of the field when the Missouri river broke up; that is, at the same time that the first Com planting field work started. started about the first of May and was continued up to the first of June in the larger fields, every kernel being lf i roses bloomed. , At the completion of the planting the hoeing began, and usually the field was entirely hoed through twice was during the season. The hoeing done vith an implement having a handle abou. the length of a mattock or pick handle with a blade made of a buffalo, from the shoulder-blad- e or occasionally an elk, or from a broad piece of buffalo horn taken from the base near the skull. The planting season and the double round of hoeing usually consumed all of the growing time. Most of the field work was done In the early morning the hours, the women getting up with sun and going out to the fields, often where accompanied by the young girls, tul sun they worked till the heat of house began to be oppressive, or their where families In called. hold duties there were several wives, each wife field or usually had her own separate fields. The size of the individual field from one to four acres. When ranged a family had planted from nine to twelve Indian acres, about three of the acres of corn were used green part in a prolonged feast of roasted green for com, and part boiled and dried field the of remainder The use. winter was left to ripen. The average yield to of the Mandan com is estimated per Jrashels about twenty been have acre. When the priest pronounced the com to the repaired whole village ripe the fields. The com was snappedrrom the stalk, husk and all, and thrown was Into piles in the fields, whence It later carried in baskets to the drying scaffold in front of the family lodge. In the work of the harvest only did the men take any part At that time fields with the they labored in the women, the prospect of feasts espethe cially prepared for them being Incentive. After the com was all gathered at the scaffold all the good ears were braided into strings or traces by the These braids and cache-pit- s husks. full were the regular measurements of the amount of corn. The poor ears and nubbins were thrown loose on the scaffold floor to dry, then thrashed out on an old robe or tent skin with sticks. As the corn was sorted for braiding the very best ripe, large, straight-roweears were tucked d themselves. These sack a by into away were later all braided together and furnished the seed stock for the next All the braided com was season. y stage or scaffold hung on the to dry and cure in the sun and air, the whole frame and sides being covered with braids. When the com was thoroughly dried it waS taken down and stored These In the ground. in cache-pit- s bottle-lik- e five to of were shape, pits eight feet deep and four to six feet In diameter underground, having a capacity of from twenty to forty bushels. They were carefully lined with dried grass before putting in the com anU when full were covered with grass, a board fitted snugly in the neck or narrow entrance hole, and dirt tilled in and smoothed over to hide tne opening. Every Mandan village was pitted with these caches, some of which were always Inside the houses. They were opened during the winter when the need arose. In view of the success of the Mandan Indians in raising com, there seems no reason why the higher plains area of North Dakota and neighboring states cannot be brought Into the com belt, a matter which has been much discussed within the past few years and regarding which there has been considerable difference of opinion. d, well-fille- two-stor- Removes Rusted Bolts.' Operating on the principle of a screw jack is a new tool with which bolts or pins that have mated fast can be removed from machinery. master, and as he was a cook, be was to him. He may drink at least part boiled to death at Smithfield in the of whatever he finds in his cap and soon acquires the habit of presence of a great crowd. Avoid other food so hunger may Teaching the Child New Habits. help him to form the habit. j Many young children accustomed to drinking milk from a bottle, do npt Important care for it when the bottle habit is The valuable man in business is the stopped. A taste for it may be cul- man who can and will with tivated, and the habit of drinking from other men-Elb- ert Hubbard. a cup formed in this way. If the child has a cup or mug which he likes Respect to Age. If you cant laugh at jokes of the very much, this should be filled several times during the dgy and offered age, laugh at the age of the jokes. day-ter- Goo-Go- over-weigh- t? Salt Lake Gty Firms . Hay-feve- r, Own Your Own Home - self-respe- tqbsts. t |