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Show This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on questions that are puzzling you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. Your questions must be limited to two, and your full name and address must accompany each letter. For special information send stamped envelope. All communications will always be held in absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 151-5, Salt Lake City. X& (P Dear Miss Brooks: I wrote to you about a week aero, and received re-ceived your answer. 1 thank you very much, and if 1 am not too much bother, I have another question to ask. (1) What pood games are there for Halowe'en for boys and Kirls between be-tween thirteen and fifteen? I thank you very much and hope I may call atrain. ALINE, Utah. Glad to hear from you apain, Aline. (1) I have taken the liberty of sending you a book which will answer your question as to Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en games better than I can, and hone it satisfies. Dear Miss Brooks : I have been reading in' your corner and am real interested in it, and am sure you can answer my simple questions, which are: (1) Is it proper to walk to another town to a dance where you are a stronger? (2) Is it ritrht for a girl to stay outside with a boy or to take him in the house? (3) Is it proper to receive birthdHy presents, Christmas present.-or present.-or any kind of gifts from a br)y when you have only known him for a short while? I am as ever, your friend. MISS RILDA, Utah. I am glad to welcome you, Rilda. (1) I do not think it proper, and I should imagine it would be rather a strenuous way to have a good time that of walking to another town. have helped so many others that I thought perhaps you could help me. I am a country girl of eighteen, and feel like I ought to be working, but under the circumstances it is impossible for me to go away from home to work. (1) Could you suggest something that I could do here at home that would be convenient con-venient for me? (2) Just one more question: Will the plaid box-pleated skirt be worn more this fall and winter than the plain ones? Wishing you success, I am a friend, FAITH. (1) As you do not send the name of your town and the postmark is not clear, it makes it more difficult to answer your question. You will note the instructions at lead of column requesting re-questing your name and address. If your town, is large enough you can make a nice little sum by taking subscriptions for some of the popular pop-ular magazines and also for some dependable hosiery. The field is limited in a small town. (2) The plaid and striped skirts seem more popular than the plain ones. Dear Miss Brooks: May I bother you with a question or twoT (1) If a boy and two girls are walking down the street should the boy walk between the girls or where? ' (2) When it is all right for a boy to put his arm around a girl? (3) Cart you tell from this letter how old I am ? Thanking Thank-ing you in. advance. 1 don t behove I would, dear. (2) Entertain yftur boy friends in your home, always. Let them understand in the beginning that when you are not at some place of entertainment or amusement your home is the place to entertain them. Too many seek their pleasure pleas-ure and entertainment any and every place outside the home, and it is the girls who can and should discourage such a practice. Have music, dancing, card playing, everything which is clean and you enjoy, but keep your friends in your home. Try it and see if you are not happier and more satisfied than when you spend your evenings in other ways. (3) No. it is NOT proper to receive presents of any value from boys you are not VERY well acquainted ac-quainted with. You should know them very well indeed, before accepting presents from them. Dear Miss Brooks : I read your corner every week and enjoy it very much. Could you tell me three antonyms for the following? Relit, victory, accommodate accommo-date and responsible ; and six antonyms for bigotry. Would you please give me the address ad-dress of some book store where I could get a gnod antonym and synonym book and the price? Thanking you very much, I am, your appreciative fried, 1 A. W., Ariz. I hope the following antonyms will be of assistance to you : Remit withhold, reserve, preserve, retain ; Victory frustrate, balk, fail, outwit, baffle: accommodate unyielding, willful, will-ful, enforce, disarrange, obdurate ; responsible uncertain, fallible, changeable, wavering ; bigotry meek, apologetic, retiring, ' sedate, quiet, tranquil, sober. I am sending you the names of two good synonym and antonym books. Dear Desk Borrower : I hope you will not think I am presumptu-.ous. presumptu-.ous. I just want to tell you what a "perfect dear" I think you are to have so much patience pa-tience and ability to answer in such a delightful de-lightful way the many absurd questions that are put before you. It must be a wonderful feeling you possess to know that you have helped so many out of their difficulties. I wish you a great lot of success in your glorious glor-ious work because I feel certain that you put your heart and soul into it. Please answer the following questions and I shall be ever so grateful. (1) What is the address of a business college for girls in Salt Lake? Do they send booklets announcing the particulars of their school to anyone requesting them? (2) For one SUIUJiDVWl, 11UUI lUdllU. (1) This seems to be a divided and much discussed question. According to the very best authority I can find, and if you wish to be absolutely correct, the gentleman should always take the outside of the street and the two ladies should walk together. Nevertheless, at great many educated, refined people follow the custom of the gentleman taking his place between be-tween the ladies, but this is not proper, according ac-cording to the best authorities on this subject. sub-ject. (2) Only when you are engaged to be married. (3) Would be hard to tell. From your writing I should judge you to be twenty, from the nature of your questions about fifteen fif-teen or sixteen. Dear Miss Brooks : We have been readers of your corner for some time and at fast have decided to write, are we welcome? We have some questions we would like you to answer for us. (1) W were born in June, what is our lucky color and day? (2) How can we win boys over so they will dance with us when they go with us on Sunday nights? (3) Do you know th& words to "Stumbling .All Around?" (4) 'Will! you please tell some girls from other states to write to us ? Hoping you can help us out, wej Remain, wishing you loads of success in your good work, i BILLIE AND BOB, 'Utah. To be sure, you are welcome, girls. (1) Red,' blue and white are said to be your colors, and Friday your lucky day. (2) Why dance on Sunday nights ? Perhaps the boys do not ap-j prove of Sunday night dancing and if so I do. not believe I would care to influence them to do 30, as there are six other nights in which you may dance. What do you think? (3) This is a popular song and can be had in the music shops, so I cannot print it here. (4) Girls, you: see here are Billie and Bobbie from Utah, who wish someone from other states to write to them. Send your names and I will forward them to these girls. Dear Helen : I am very interested in your corner. I would like you to answer these few questions. (1) Is it right to come home with a boy if he doesn't take you? (2) Is it right for x hoy and girl to ride on the same horse together 7 (3) Is it proper to get married at 15 years of age? (4) Is it proper for a young man and woman to walk down the street arm in arm? With love, LLLA, McCammon. (1) You should not go any place without an escort or some older person with you, and should of course return with them. (2) No,' it is not proper for girls and boys to ride on the same horse. (3) My dear child, NO you are but a child at fifteen. Do not think of marriage for five years. (4) If it is at night the girl should take the boy's arm, not otherwise. . Dear Miss Brooks : (1) How can you think to wash your teeth, and what is best to wash them with ? (2) We are both fifteen, are we old enough to go out with boys if we are not, how old should we be? (3) Is it proper to let boys teach you how to ice skate? (4) Is it proper to let a boy kiss you when he brings you home? (5) I3 it proper for a boy to use slang before a girl T Ever yours, BILLY, McCammon. (1) By making a practice of doing it regularly regu-larly at certain times during the dr-.y morning, noon and ni?ht. 'U-.e two parts tnble salt and one part soda. This makes a splendid wash for your teeth. (2) You should wait another year, girls. (3) Yes. quite proper. (4) No, not at all proper in any sense of the word. (5) No, there is never z proper place for slang, before girls , least of all. Be very careful care-ful about this yourselves, girls. Dot, Dora, Violet and Luella. Utah : Send name and address and I will endeavor to answer an-swer some of your questions. Read instructions instruc-tions in regard to sending questions. born in August, what would be the lucky and unlucky day? A loving friend. BONNIE BEE, Utah. I have had catalogues from several of our business colleges sent to you. Sunday is said to be your lucky day and January and October Octo-ber your lucky months. Thanks for your many kind words, my dear, and I hope the information infor-mation I am sending wilt also help you. Dear Miss Brooks : I have been a reader of your corner for some time and find it helpful and interesting. I have some questions that are puzzling me. I wonder if you could help me ? They are : (1) What does this passage mean and what is it in the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Saw-yer" ? "To my wife this book is afTectionat'ely dedicated." , (2) I was born on Oct. 7, 1903. what day of the week din I arrive on? f3) I have a very dear girl friend whose name is Dora. Ha it any opacified meaning? Wishing Wish-ing you success in answering these. I am. DIMPLES, of Ida. (1) Nearly every book is. dedicated to someone, some-one, Dimples. Mark Twain no doubt wished to show the respect and esteem in which be held the devoted wife, who had inspired him in his work 01 creating the character char-acter of Tom Sawyer, and so dedicated the book to her. 2 You were born on Wednesday, Wednes-day, my dear. (3) Dora is a diminutive of Dorothea or Dorothy and means "The Gift of God." Dear Miss Brooks : We are two girls of seventeen and eighteen, and we enjoy reading your cornr in the Arc" Advertiser. We would like you to help us if you will. M) How old should a girl be before be-fore startig to go with the boys? 12) Would you please pTint the words to "Reautiful Ohio?" (3) Is it proper to have a hoy's arms around you when tsking evening walks? (4) We were horn in November. October. w'n:it are our lucky days and colors. I it richt for girls cf our age to go to public fiance with boys to escort us? (6) Ts it proper for a boy to ride on the same horie with a girl? (7) Which is rirrnt. a girl to write to the boy first or is he to writ" fir:;t. We remain. BLONDY AND DARKEY. Idaho. (1) Sevente-n and eighteen is old enough to j go out with the hnys, providing you ;ro with : the right sort. You are never old onnuvh other-wife. other-wife. 12) This song will annear in the near future. CO No. indeed. THIS is not the ri?ht sort. (4 The lucky day for November is Tuody and the colors brown and black. For Gclnhcr Friday, and the colon crimson and black. IM It is never quite proper to ro to pub. lie dunes unless chnperoncd. ft'l No. unless under circumstances which make It n.'ce-s:iry. (7) The !cy always, unleis it has been understood under-stood that the rirl should do so. Head instructions instruc-tions at head of column before writing again, gir'a. near Miss Bnv.ks: j May I j"ln your cony little corner? You! |