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Show V THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Dear Reader: - This is your corner. All questions submitted will bo cheerfully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, bub will be sent if a stamped envelope accompanies the request. Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany each letter or no reply can be made. ' All communications are held strictly confidential. In requesting poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or the name of the author is necessary in order to find them. Please send stamped, addressed envelope also with these requests, so they may be forwarded directly to you. Yesteryears Feast Days -- y- LAURETTA JOY to CintbaJ fltmDtdtr ES, father, It went off all right, but It wasnt like our Thanksgiving when the children were home," and mother and grandmother Bell winked back a sentimental tear. There were only two of then? at the supper table with Its dabs of cold chicken and pork, cranberry sauce, celery, nuts, cold quash, and all the orthodox remnants of the great American feast. The four children and twelve grandchildren had been feastea and feted In the old home and had gone on their way rejoicing after "the girls had The helped mother "do up the work. house where Tom and Bob and Buth and Alice had been born, where they had been fed and kissed and spanked, where they had scrapped and made up, and manifested the first sparks of the genius within them, was very still. "Yes, mother, it wasnt like the old Thanksgivings, said the man with most of the perkiness of youth gone, and they were silent together. The mother was remembering those long-ag- o years when a home full of childish joy In Thanksgiving or any holiday gave It a freshness and vigor that had dulled In later years. She remembered the warm house wrapped In winter snows bubbling over with the zestful enthusiasm of childhood. First of all, there was their keen joy In the distant vague preparations for the holiday. She could see Toms grin when she sent him to the store for raisins and citron and almonds and the smiles of all of them when the big rich cake was put In the j, oltj brown crock. There was the day when Buth and Bob came home with their pieces to speak In school the day before Thanksgiving and joyfully revealed that teacher had told them what they that school i had known all along would close on Wednesday night and they didnt have to come back until Monday. And then their watchful, fearful waiting for the first snowflakes, and Tom getting out his coaster and painting the runners, and Alice and Buth going to the woods for bittersweet and partridge berries and sprays of eve? green and decorating, the mantel sfij windows and archways, and then ftg day before, when father killed ggj dressed the chickens or turkey gr duck. And what a hurry and huqge there was of cleaning, baking, ro lng and boiling, and how golden (he big kitchen was with the winter sua glancing through the maples outside, and how warm It was with the big oven sending out waves of warmth and the odor of baking pie, cake and cookies. And then the great day Itself no need to call her brood that day, for snow had come In the night and the boys had risen with the fiery red winter sun to try out the sled before breakfast and had come In all cold and rosy to gulp down pancakes and sirup and eggs and bacon. And then, no matter how great the feast nor how much remained to be done, the six of them were dressed In Sunday best and the family trailed down the white street to church, meeting neighbors en the way, smiling, chatting, asking whether it was a turkey or a chicken bill of fare this time, growing soberer as they trailed Into the little, white church and "down to the pew that held the six of them each Sabbath. And then the triumphant Thanksgiving hymns and paeans from the choir, the sermon of plenty from the pastor, and the yellow winter sun streaming through the stained windows. Tne benediction, the moment of chat and good will from neighbor to neighbor, a little herd guided down the steps where they burst from church sobriety Into the puppy spirits demanded by a cold, snappy day. Home again and the last scramble for the feast the girls setting the table with the best linen, silver and china, with a bowl of tiny yellow chrysanthemums from the backyard bush, the trips down cellar for a can of relish: tiny, firm pickles; some chill sauce; strawberries, and the squash and carrots and turnips and potatoes and onions, each with Its part to play In the feast The turkey or duck stuffed with spicy dressing was crackling away in the oven, father was out In the garden exhuming some celery put to bleach for the occasion a mouth or so ago, the boys were cracking nuts and polishing apples how sweet it was to do her work In her own place for those who needed and enjoyed this work how serene and sure and peaceful It all seemed looking back over those years all the doubts and torments of later years seemed Impossible. How had it come about? What had life done to her, to them? Her friends, her neighbors thought that life had used her kindly. Death had never knocked at the door of her fold. Sickness had been almost unknown. In the eyes of the world, her children had "turned out well. Tom was councilman in a big city and a prominent business attorney. He had married "a nice girl and no one could ask for prettier, better mannered grandchildren than this family had given her. . Alice had married a physician and was prominent socially and In club work. Mother and Father Bell rarely picked up a Sunday paper without seeing a picture of Mrs. John Graham or one or other of the little Grahams, who were Included aqjong those prominent In the juvenile set Bob was a successful merchant and active In furthering employee welfare work. Buth had never married, but was more than successful as a home decorator. She traveled all she wanted to, dressed beautifully, maintained a charming apartment, was Invited to the homes of those whom the world calls great no, there was not one of her children who had not done well or was anything but a credit to the parents. And yet, why did a mother hunger so even if her children were all that she had ever hoped for them? Why must heartaches and loneliness be the price to pay for this very success? Why did such a sense of baffled puzzlement fill her at the Thanksgiving table? Why did their coming not satisfy? Why did this longing for the other days persist In seizing her? She knew the answer. Knew that their very success, their very homes, their very children, meant that her work was done. It was but a visit of a day, and as such had no faintest connection with the yesteryear feast . days which meant one home, one Interest, one working and playing niche for alL She and their father and their home made up their . lifes groove then. Today they are making those grooves for others and finding their own therein. There are thousands of fathers and mothers the country over who find only poignant loneliness and even bitterness In a repetition of the feast days which were so joyful in days gone by. The winter sun still streams through the backyard maples Into the big kitchen. The same old range bakes the turkey and squash and mince and pumpkin pies for the same old brood. The same china and silver and best tablecloth may be upon the dining-rootable, but Thanksgiving Is not what It was. Even If the same faces, with no break In the ranks, are grouped about the table, it is all different now. They are guests In the place where they were common workers. They are strangers In the home that gave them birth. Does life hold no other job for those who gave them forth to the world? This Is the question that fills D BEAUTY OF GRATITUDE By FRANK HERBERT SWEET should Thanksgiving ofday the year. No one is really thankful who Is not really happy. Praise spoken by the lips Is very faint and hollow unless the It. heart Thanksgiving Is a home day. The young person who accepts the Invitation of friends for some form of merrymaking which takes one from the family circle makes a mistake. There are enough days in the year for the Save ordinary good times. Thanksgiving for the home folks. The girl or boy who lookB on thankfulness as a hard duty Is not likely to make much of a success of it. The beauty of. gratitude Is that it should be spontaneous, bubbling up In the heart like a spring, not pumped up to the surface with an effort that leaves one out of breath. (gt. Ills, Western Newspaper Union.) the lonely hearts of many a mother and father Bell. Is there any balm for these heart-sor-e parents who feel that lifes twilight must be spent with folded hands thinking of the active life that Is over? Or Is it the old story of paying the price for everything which one attains In life? I think not. I think Its a matter of perverted viewpoint. In the first place, parents who conclude that their lifes work Is over &st Weiuse their children are grown and away from home, are only writing their own doom. Life Is not static. It Is ever flowing. The water goes on over the mill wheel and he who seeks to hold It back will be able to scoop up only a pall or so and keep It until it grows scummy. Many parents are like this. The waters of their own lives flow on deeply and smoothly and when a stretch of clear, sparklipg, limpid water, which" means a phase' of living especially dear to them, comes along, the parents scoop It up and seek to hold it, forgetting that the mill Is go- ing on just the same. Parenthood Is an essentially dear phase of living to most people. Nature has a vital reason for this, but she does her job too well. One Is Inclined to think that If she had created a man or woman so that would be the one job they craved during the days of their youth, but would so make them that they would crave another job when the children were grown and going about their own Job of parenthood, the old dame would have done a better job. Then, too, Its a human trait to remember the fair and shining side of things that are gone, and hence to repine for them. To go back to the Bell family: Buth, the single damsel, glimpsed her parents mood to the full and discussed it with her sister like this: Youd think to hear mother rave that she was supremely happy when we were all home, and sometimes It makes me furious when I distinctly recall how she fussed and worried and stewed around .about one thing and another where In the world the money for our winter underclothes was coming from, how much schoolbooks costj what In the world she would do with Bobs bad temper and Toms lying and my vanity and your craziness after the boys. And many a time she made her moan about how overworked and thankless her life was, and would the never time come when she had a chance to rest and get a little peace? And thats that I If Mother and Father Bell live to be eighty they will look back upon their peaceful, serene, quiet life together now as the best of their days, and at one hundred they would regard the days of eighty as altogether desirable. If Thanksgiving does nothing else for us, may it quicken our vision of the glories of the present child-rearin- g 1 LOVING AND GIVING Thanksgiving Is a fitting preparation for the beautiful festival day which follows so soon Christmas. It is when a child truly feels and expresses gratitude that he In turn is ready to give and do for others. .Loving and will make sunshine In eur giving world. "God se loved that He gav" Science has Just discovered that the dahlia plant contains a large content of sugar that Is sweeter than the sugar of cane or beets. Its sugar, unlike that of cane or beets, can also be eaten without 111 effects by persons suffering from diabetes, and therefore It Is said the discovery ranks with that of insulin. There are 1,000,000 persons suffering from diabetes In this country, and up to the present time there has been nothing to give them but saccharin to satisfy their Insatiable longing for sweet things, which are dangerous to their health. Saccharin Injures the digestive organs. It Is said that the blossoms of the dahlia plant detract from the amount of sugar, contained In the roots, so It would seem Improbable that the flower will continue to serve as a decoration, Instead of becoming a producer of medicinal sugar. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City, Utah. SONGS REQUESTED (1) Unless you are planning a long These songs and poems are on the trip and are taking a great deal of list: requested and baggage, I advise that you get on Will She Come From the East? serviceable dress for traveling. good Meet Me In St. Louis, LOuis. Now comes a volunteer expert whe This with a sport coat, will be all that You can don this gown would read womans intelligence by is necessary. RECEIVED in the morning and feel becomingly and of her feet. AcThe following songs and poems have dressed for the day. the shpe and size been received during the past week, appropriately normal feet Inhis to thesis, or crepes satin canton of the cording Any heavy and I wish to thank each one for their make an ideal material for a traveling dicate that their owner Is sensible; kindness in contributing them: dress, and if it is made in a plain that Wandering Home. they are a sign of Intelligences rest Please, Mr. Conductor, Dont Put Me tailored one piece style, you maytaste. Then he spoils It all with a footnote assured you are dressed in good Off the Train. Unless one has a stateroom and breakto the effect that normal feet are rare. With very few exceptions the many fasts alone, a negligee is very much Perish the thought I The average on out train. the of are place either songs requested this week man Is too gallant to rate woman as, popular or standard sopgs which can I regret that I have not been per- even figuratively, carrying her Intellibe had in the music shops, and so can not be furnished through my corner. mitted to answer a number of letters gence In her feet. And of what use I will be very glad to have any of these received recently, because of the writA man would Is the tip, anyway? songs sent to you from the music stores ers failure to enclose name or address. here if you cannot get them in your If he went around Introuble court local stores. The prices range from 35 Dear Madam: I have written to you before and have tently studying the feet of women. to 40c. received very satisfactory answers, so I am here again. (1) Will you please Dear Miss Brooks: One of the original jokes Is that the This is my first attempt to enter your give a cause and cure for warts? (2) have no sense of humor. music of me rade Could English tell what corner. you a few I have questions happy to ask. May I enter? (1) What is the the following pieces of music are? Ewan S. Agnew, director of Punch Loves Greeting" by Euard Elgilr, op. meaning of the name Afghanistan,1 comic magazine), the state in Asia? (2) Is it proper for 12 and Dorothy, an old English Dance (celebrated English we girls of 14 to go to a dance with by Seymour Smith. Thanking you in retaliates by admitting that Americans boys of.our own age? Thanking you In advance and wishing you sucess, I have as good a sense of humor as remain, advance, but our humor Is the English, NORMA, Preston, Idaho. of Utah. broader and less subtle than In EngYou are most welcome. Fair Autumn. (1) Warts usually occur as the result (1) Afghanistan is inhabited for the of some form of irritation. Occasionland. We strike Agnew as a nation greater part by the Afghans and AY ally small blood vessels grow up into a of gigglers, who laugh too easily. We ghafi is supposed to mean noisy and wart, but they are usually dry and hard. tumultuous. It might be added that They can be burned off with acids but laugh easily, however, because were it is a well deserved name, for they are 1 would not advise this method, as the a younger nation and have less to a turbulent people. (2) I have tried to acid must be used very carefully. Often answer this question so many times they disappear of their own free will, worry us than England. that I could only repeat what I have al- and again bathing with a solution of water in proportion of a teaspoon ready said over and over until I am borax Here and there it will be a rather sure some of my readers are weary' of to one quart of water, letting it dry matter to get some fellows to difficult on warts the the without see in You answers it. the will wiping reading last two Issues which will cover this liquid off, has been found very efficient try this truth serum until they find an (2) Both these question for you. I am sending you in removing them. one of the songs you requests The pieces are considered fourth grade antidote against the thing going toe music. Loves other is one of the latest popular songs, Greeting can be had in fat. a simplified form for second grade, and so of course I cannot send It. ' however. Statutes forbidding people to wear Dear Miss Brooks: I have been reading Between You Dear Miss Brooks: masks In public will never be enThis is the second time I have written and Me for sometime and find the anforced with a strictness preventing swers satisfactory. (1) Is it alright for you but I feel welcome. Will you please cosmetic disguises on a fashionable a girl 12 years of age and a boy 13 to answer two questions? (1) What walk to and from school together, a would be a good costume to wear at a promenade. distance of two blocks? (2) There is Halloween dance instead of a ghost, a a boy in our crowd that acts soft clown or a witch costume? (2) What Paris has just opened a municipal around the girls. We have tried to is my lucky number, lucky day, and make him stop but he wont. What my color? I was born March 17, 1909. hock shop for automobiles and a studio shall we tell him? Wishing you success Thanking you for your trouble, I am, There is no Intimation for artists. AN UNKNOWN FRIEND, Utah. In your work, I remain Glad you do, dear, for you certainly that these public projects are In any "SUNSHINE, Idaho. (1) The only harm which could pos- are. (1) A dress of black cambric decwriy related. sibly edme from tills simple diversion, orated with pumpkin faces cut from or my dear, would be what your school orange crepe paper and pasted Now comes a scientist and says the mates would say; such as calling you sewed over the skirt and waist would sweethearts," etc., all such things hav- be attractive, with a cap decorated in a bite, of the tarantula Is not fatal. The ing a tendency to detract interest and similar manner. Or you could use a gentleman Is quite at liberty to show mind from Bchool work. Boys should light material, preferably orange, and form a very small part in the interests decorate it similarly with black cat his faith by allowing one of the of girls of 12 years, and my advice con- heads, or the well known Hallowe'en spiders to get at him. cerning the soft boy would be to cat. (2) The lucky day for one born in ostracize him from your "crowd until March is said to be Wednesday, and such time as he comes to his senses pink, white, black and emerald green Fashion Is almost making I the colors. I do not wish you to feel and learns how to act. that I am authority on the subject of havent a thing to wear come true. Dear Miss Brooks: lucky days, months, etc., as I quote I am back again with more questions. these only from books on this subject The world Is all against any reThank you very much for the song you I have small faith in this kind of luck, n of vival wrestling. sent me. (1) If you have seen persons therefore, have never attempted to a few times, talked with them, but make a study of it. dont know their names only through other people, is it necessary to have Dear Miss Brooks: an introduction to them? Thanking you I feel rather bashful, but in reading very cordially, I remain, your corner I saw a song which I knew. BELLA DONNA. Idaho. There are one or two lines I don't You were very welcome to the song, know whether I can supply or not. I To unn prompt oervieo and quick returns my dear, as you also are to the one have two questions I would like to ask. to these advertisement mention the name of you request this time. (1) It Is never (1) If three girls were after the same this paper. advisable to make chance acquaint- boy and he didnt like any of them what ances, Bella Donna, but having done would you advise the girls to do? (2) A BAEBEE IN EIGHT WEEKS so, an Introduction would be rather I want to learn to dance and am very Write Meier Barber CoL, 114 Regent St. S. I superfluous now. Doubtless you would bashful. What would you advise me to feel more at ease, however, even now, do? Yours truly, BUSINESS COLLEGES CONSTANT could if you receive a formal introducREADER, Utah. tion. Do you not think so? Right glad I am that you overcame L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. your bashfulness enough to write to School of Efficiency. All commercial branches. me and send the song. Dear Miss Brooks: Thank you Catalog free. 60 N. Main St., Salt Lake City. I received your letter answering my much for copying it. Three girls after last questions, and I want to thank you. the same boy! Now, girls, does this BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES I have a few more questions I would not prove the theory that this reversAny book you want by mail, C. O. D like to find the answers to, and I do not ing the natural order of this sort of VVWhi Deseret Book Co. 44 East Soi Temple know of a better place to write for in- things tends to drive the object of your formation than to you. This FUKS BOUGHT (1) Miss attentions further from you? Brooks, on what Utah desert was The young man does not ask what he should Covered Wagon filmed, and how far is do, but asks advice for the girls. All FI TPS We pay highest market price for furs hides, and pelts. Write for price list or Cleveland from the place? What lady he asks is to be allowed the right which ship direct to a reliable house. We canmake and gentlemen played the leading naturally seems to have been accorded up your furs and hides into robes, overcoats or roles? (2) I am Just fifteen years old him that of making overtures to the other fur garments, write for our free catalog: and in high school. Do you approve of girl he admires and the more difficult American Hide For Co., Furriers Tanners Salt Lake City girls my age going out with boys it is to gain her attention the more he 1 S3 West Sooth Temple nearly every night? The girls I go to admires and pursues. My advice to the SONGS SHEET MUSIC school with are always slurring me girls, young man, would be to let you about not enjoying life while you are be at peace and turn their attention to CnwrC new and old. All kinds. Sheet music by mail. COD. Beealey Music Co. 57 S Main young, just because I do not go out some boy who is a greater admirer of and walk the streets and let the boys their method of gaining a boy's attenBEAUTY CREAMS A SUPPLIES take liberties when I am in their com- tion than you are, or better still culpany. Please give me advice, whether tivate a disposition to let the boys Try our own Cosmetics. Made and used la to follow these girls trail or do as I am become Interested enough in them to our Beauty Parlors. 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What kind of dress would be suitable to wear on the train and what for a breakfast gown? Thanking you in advance and wishing you lots and lots of success, we are, as ever, BILLIE and BOBBIE, Idaho. We make & repair all kindsof jew To AN EASTERNER, New York. It Is very gratifying to know that yon airy K. J. Leiff Mfg., Jeweler. 118 Main, Ups tain have received helpfiil suggestions and BUBBER STAMPS AND STENCILS information from my corner. I find it and Ear Tags Made. Send for sampla Seals difficult to express to you (as well as all others) my appreciation of your prises, etc. Salt Lake Stomp Co. s West Bdwj kindness in sending the desired songa COSTUMES I only hope I may have the pleasure of this favor for some in Masuwwade. returning Minstrels. Operas. way Jwtorws in the near future. Catalog Proa. Salt Lake Costume Oft |