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Show Dear Reader: This is your corner. All questions submitted will be cheerfully cheer-fully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, but will be sent if a self -addressed, 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. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City, Utah. To "UAULI.NG," Utah: Sorry, "Daring," "Dar-ing," but this column cannot be used as a matrimonial agency and therefore your letter cannot be published here. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been very much interested in "Just Between Tou and Me," and would like you to answer some questions. (1) Is Rodolph Valentino married to Agnes Ayres, and if not, who is his wife and in what plays does he act? (2) Who are the stars in "The Sheik's Wife?" Thanking you in advance, I am, sincerely sin-cerely yours, "MIGNONETTE," Idaho. Glad to welcome you, Mignonette. (1) "Rudy" is much married. His first wife was Jean Acker, from whom he is . divorced. His last wife is Winnifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, her stage nama beng Natacha Rambova. (2) "Th Sheik's Wife" was a "no star" production. produc-tion. Sorry, dear, but will have to ask you to send your other questions later, as two questions are all my corner will allow from each one. Come again. Dear Miss Brooks: May I join your corner? Please an-swer an-swer a question for me. (1) Some time ago I heard a lady sing a ong which) was very beautiful. I do not know the title. It started like this: "A passing policeman found a little child. She walked beside him, dried her tears and smiled. Said he to her kindly, 'Now you must not cry, I will find your mamma for you by and by.' " If you can find the song, please print it. BROWN EYES, Logan, Utah. Well, Brown Eyes, I will print your letter and if anyone recognizes your song I am sure you will get it by and by. It is not at all familiar to me. "Be Photographed on Your Birthday." Monroe Studios, 267 V So. Main, Salt Lake. Adv. An optimist is a married man who thinks he is boss. Dear Miss Brooks: May I enter your busy little corner? Tou always seem willing, whatever the question may be. Will you kindly answer an-swer thia question for me? Maybe you will think I am foolish for asking such a question. Can you explain the games of Five Hundred and Bridge? "Now dear, do not bother to answer both questions this time. I will wait for one of them until next time. Wishing you the best of health and happness, MRS. J. B., Provo, Utah. Surely you may come, and I am very glad to have you with us. No, L think it perfectly all right for you to ask any question you wish, this is what my corner cor-ner is for, and 1 will do my very best to answer. But, my dear lady, should I print full instructions for these games so it would really be of assistance to you in playing the games, there would be room for little else here, so now I am going to ask you to let me send you a little book of Hoyle which fully explains ex-plains every card game played today. Or better still, you may be able to get this in your book stores at home. The price is 25 cents. Is this satisfactory? Dear Miss Brooks: (1) We are very much in need of your advice. Is it proper for girls of our age, from 12 to 14, to go without a chap-erone chap-erone to a dance in the evening? (2) What is the name of the latest dancing step? Wishing you bushel3 of buccess, we remain, SMILES, DIMPLES. CURLY-LOCKS CURLY-LOCKS and BEAUTY, Mayfield, Utah. I hope you will be as anxious to accept ac-cept my advice as you seem sincere in asking It. (1) I cannot and do not approve ap-prove of girls your age going to a public pub-lic dance at all, my dear girls, and I earnestly advise you not to do so, and under no circumstances should you go without being accompanied by some older member of your family father, mother, or brother. (2) The latest dance I am at all familiar with Is the Frisco Walk and the Scandal Walk. These are but parodies of the Fox Trot. Dear Miss Brooks: This is the first time I have written to you, and hope It will be a success. Please answer the following questions. (1) I am a boy of fourteen. Is it proper to take a girl home from a party, dance, etc.? (2) Is it proper to play kissing games at a party? Thanking you very much, I remain, GIRL CRAZY. Logan. Utah. Your letter was a success insofar as it has reached me safely, and now for a successful answer. (1) My dear boy. you may see that a girl reaches home safely from & neighborhood party perhaps, per-haps, but you are not attending "dances, etc.," are you? If so that is not proper. When you are old enough to go to these places, escort a girl there, but I hope by that time there will be no girls who go alone, whom you can take home. (2) Absolutely not. There are many other games to be played which are much more wholesome and Interesting to all concerned. DAWN. Smlthneld. Utah,: In the song "Comrades." this one Is all I found. Do you think this Is the one you wished? COMRADES We, from childhood, played together my dear comrade Jack and I, We would fight each other's battles, to each other's aid we would fly, And in boyish scrapes and troubles you would find us everywhere; Where one went the other follow'd, Naught could part us for we're Chorus "Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys: Sharing each other's sorrows, Sharing each other's Joys. Comrades when manhood was dawning, faithful whate'er might betide; When danger threatened my Jolly old Comrade was there by my side." When Just budding into man hood. I yearned for a soldier's life. Night and day I dreamed of glory, longing long-ing for the battle strife; I said, "Jack, I'll be a soldier, 'neath the Rfd, White and nine. Good-hy, Jack." said he. "No, never, if you go then I go too for we're, Chorus I enlisted. Jack came with me and tips and downs wo shared. For a time our lives were peaceful but at length war was declared. England's Flag had been Insulted, we were ordered to the front. And tho regiment wo ltelon'd to had to hear tho battle's brunt, we wore Chorus riNK ROSE, Clear T,.'i!o, Utah: I ennnot give you tho address desired, without first having your name, at least. Rend rules carefully at bead of column, so you may not he disappointed when you wrlto your next letter. Denr MIhs Brooks: Hope we are welcome to enter your corner. Wo think it Is very Interesting. Will you please answer tho following quest lens for us? (1) Is It proper to conio honie from n dnnce. or any other ent ertn lnntenl , with n boy when he (lid not tnlto you there? Nearly all the glrlH In our homo town do I his. and if you don't the boys s:iy. "Wn don't care, there me plenty of girls that will." We nro fifteen years old. (2) W lint colors would you suggest for a girl to dross In who has medium brown hair and fiilr skin and blue eyes, nnd girl with Mack hair, far skin and blue eyes? Also, what style would you suggest for a fleshy girl to wear? ? Thanking you In advance, we are, KATE AND DUPLI-KATE, Dixie. You are welcome, girls. (1) And now if you have been reading my corner cor-ner carefully you will see I have been very emphatic in my advice that girls should not go to public places of amusement amuse-ment when as young as you are, and regardless of age, to never go alone, but with an older brother, father, or some older member of your family. Your question shows the truth of this very plainly. Boys of this age do not know how to treat a girl in a gentlemanly gentle-manly way, it seems, and a girl who attends a public dance unattended by a proper escort, places herself in a position posi-tion to be treated disrespectfully by these boys. Do you not see this now? I am glad you have at least had the courage of your convictions and refused to accept their escort home. If more girls would do this, the boys would soon be acting quite differently. (2) As I have answered your first question at some length, I will refer you to last week's paper for colors suitable to the complexions described. A stout figure should favor the long, straight line and avoid a definite waist line or trimming which encircles the figure. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been reading: some of the letters let-ters written to you and was very interested inter-ested in the answers given and would like very much if you could publish the song, "Bury Me Not on a Lone Prairie." and give me the address of Miss Esther Gray. Wishing you success, suc-cess, I am. your FRIEND, from Garland. Utah. I am glad to know you find my corner cor-ner Interesting. (1) Yours is the second sec-ond inquiry I have had for this song, but as yet I have not located it. If I do so will be glad to print it. (2) It will be necessary for me to know more about who the Esther Grey is you wish to find, in order to help you. Tell me more about her the next time you write, and be sure to send your name also. Dear Miss Brooks: May I ask a question that Is troubling troubl-ing me very much? (1) I have been going with a girl for over a year. I am 2S and she is 20. She is a very nice girl in every way, only she is inclined in-clined to be slouchy. She never looks well-dressed in anything, and at their home everything inside and out is topsy-turvy. My mother and sisters were always neat and kept a clean house. Do you think I could be happy with a wife of that kind? I have Joked her sometimes some-times on their living conditions, and she seems to think they were O. K. (2) In order for one to be a stenographer stenog-rapher Is it necessary to understand shorthand? PUZZLED. Parowan. Utah. (1) This would be a hard question for me to decide for you. It is possible, perhaps, that the lovableness of her character and disposition would make the conditions you mention bearable, but I am rather Inclined to think that so long as you have not been accustomed accus-tomed to these conditions, they would be a constant irritation to you in your own home and might be the cause of serious trouble between you. The very fact that It is a source of annoyance to you now, when you are perhaps as blind to her shortcomings as you will ever be, does not argue well for your future happiness with her. You are the only one, however, who can tell Just how much of tbls manner of living you could endure without becoming irritable irrit-able about it. and you could not hope that she would be any different in her own home. (2) To be a stenographer it Is necessary to know shorthand. It is sometimes possible to get a position where the use of the typewriter is all that is required, but these are comparatively com-paratively fow. Dear Friend: We have been interested In your corner, cor-ner, "Just Between You and Me." and would thank you very much if you would answer a few questions for us. (1) Would It be proper to take a girl homo from a dance if you did not take her there? (2) How late should a coti-ple coti-ple stay up at night? CI) What Is the proper age for boys to go out with girls? (-1) What are some of the Infest Inf-est dance pieces? Wishing you much success In your work, we remain, DOODLE BUG AN11 SIMPER. Washington. Utah. (1) No. thin is not proper. If you nre old enough to attend a dnnce, you should take a partner nnd the girls should not go without an escort. (2) My dear boys, this depends entirely upon conditions and tho persons, but ten-thirty or eleven Is as late as any young person should be up. (.1) Girls should not go with boys under sixteen years of age, nnd boys should be that old nt least. (() Among the late dnnce music Is "Hiiiiiiln' Wild," "St. I.ouls Itlues," "Ivy," nnd "Just Like a Doll." MADAM X, Centerfleld. Utah: Thank vou so much. denr. for tho poem, "Fulling "Full-ing T.enf." II will be forwarded to the one desiring It. If tho party desiring tho song "Tho Itoston lturglnr." will send her nnme :ind address. 1 will send It. I have not yet located the others, lint will try to 0.0 so. I have lie i' n Hi'fi re It 1 n k "our corner" for cood ndvlro nnd mImo for nn opportunity oppor-tunity to help you nnd your render, nnd h.'ive found n rhnncn. I am Bending two Hinii'.H nwiufuited. If you luivo rooui I would like to compliment the little Wyoming k'iI on ln'i recipe f"r n rvod complex Inn. I think her pin 11 la perfect and IwtM no rlvnl. WWihlm; yen much riuc-''fci nnd mm d I n it In I m of love ami th;ink:i for your c:irn"il effort a to help iih all, 1 n m. VY I 1,1 i'l,nV Kit, fli rl:ind, IM ah. 'I'h a ii k you mh vci'v, ver v much for tlM nM-.!i. Wllllower. It In Indeed n l-r.nt I t-1 p to linvc vol! nmol them. Our Mill" .'viuilntv frlmid will he hnppy to re . mm r v.'ord-i of ii pprecln lion, I am mire, and no also nm I. 1 w;iH reading your fidvlee In "Ho-t "Ho-t w ecu you nnd me." I would I Ik o to auk n iineMtlnii If I may. (1) If n girl Im walklna almm' the street and Mho ineetM n man alio 1 acquainted with, Hhouhl alio Mpenk Orat, or tho 'cntlo-lirian? 'cntlo-lirian? I nm much oldhvcd In nd-v.'iiii'o, nd-v.'iiii'o, A n:uv er a a soon ns possible, heca uao 1 i'di to know. Yimith truly, A. YV., Minidoka. Ida. (I) Tho Kill ahniild nneaU IliMt. 1 am Hoi'iy If you have had to wait, hul your letter has to tnko It turn, A. W. IMonna rea d in I cm carefully he fore w r 1 1 1 n k a ku in mo you will not ho d 1mm p point nd 1 n nee I v In iv no n um w er. Pear MImh Urooks: I am very In I ereat od In our corner nnd Mud Kroat comfort In rending th many answers that you ;tve. 1 hnvo a few questions I would like to nnl If yon do not mind. ( t ) T was born Pf-comher Pf-comher "Tit h. What In my lucky number, num-ber, month and day? (" How can n person remove plmplea and blackheads? Thanklnn you In advance, 1 remain. K 1. Mnh. (1) Kor one born In iVeomhor Thursday Thurs-day In aa Id to ho lucky a nd Kohrun ry and dune tho months. ( VM If you will send your name and address with u stamped envelop. 1 will be k hul to toll you a very uood remedy for ptmpls nnd blncUheads. |