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Show llsil&gssfcfUII I This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on question that are puzzling you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. Your full name and addiess must accompany each letter sent. For special information tend 6tamped envelope. All communications will always be held in absolute confidence. con-fidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks. Box 1545, Salt Lake City. publish the words of the song entitled enti-tled "When You're Gone I Won't Forget For-get You?" : Thanking you in advance, I remain,' BETTY, Tooele, Utah.' No bother at all, Betty, but becaus of lack of space we cannot publish songs which can be readily obtained in the music stores. Your song can: be had for SO cents. I will be glad to have it sent to you if you wish. Dear Miss Brooks: I have Sfome questions I would like) to ask you. (1) How old is Mary! Miles Minter (2) Who was the leading man in the picture show, "Durand of the Bad Lands?" (3) Who first start-; ed motion picture shows? Thanking you in advance, WANETA, Cleveland. Mary Miles Mintcr is 20 years old.) Dustin Farnum was leading man ini "Durand of the Bad Lands." Thomas. A. Edison is pioneer of the motion picture industry. Dear Miss Brooks: I wrote once before but received no-answer, no-answer, so will try again. Please give me the address of some store in Salt Lake where I can get music and1 words and for how much. Thanking you, I am, MAY, Manti, Utah. You must have overlooked your answer, an-swer, my dear. You will have to send your name and a stamped envelope,, together with the songs you wish, and I will then tell you where you can get them, and the price. Dear Miss Brooks: You have helped many girls with, their Bee Hive work, perhaps you can help me. Would you please tell me about the Blue Violet? Thank you. for the trouble I have caused you. A BEE HIVE GIRL, Burley, Idaho. The botanical name for the commons blue Violet is Cucullate. The Violet stands for constancy and modesty. As. the chosen emblem of Napoleonism,. it has served many a sadly practical purpose, and it has been the tbame-of tbame-of the poet from the earliest time. As Viola, it was known to the i.ncient Romans, and the great Linnaeu adopted the name as the language of" science, in those early times, when poetry and nature were blended s closely together, the Violet was received re-ceived as especially the emblem of constancy. It has been found wild from Arctic America to the Gulf of Mexico, westward in the Rocky Mountains, Moun-tains, and across the Sierra Nevadas, almost to the Pacific coast. It grows. in deep, shady woods, as well as? irv the most exposed places, but generally general-ly where thr. soil is a little damp. Glad to serve you, I am sure. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been reading the questions and answers in your corner for some time and I enjoy reading them very much. I would like you to answer a few for me. (1) I am a girl of 16. I have been going with a boy of this town for some time and I am very fond of him. But lately he prefers other girls' company in preference to mine. What would you advise me to do? (2) What kind of a girl do boys like to go out with? (3) How can a girl be popular without being a flapper? flap-per? (4) Is it proper for a crowd of boys and girls to go up the canyon at night and have a chickeree? Thanking you in advance, I am respectfully, re-spectfully, TROUBLED BRUNETTE. (1) My dear, do not waste your affections af-fections on a boy who prefers another anoth-er girl's society. Boys, or girls either, eith-er, rarely form lasting affection at the age of sixteen, and your friend, doubtless, doubt-less, wishes to be friends with more than one girl before he settles down to just one, and I think it much the better way,-don't you? You should enjoy the friendship and society of more than one boy, and not be too fond of any one, at the age of sixteen. (3) Boys like girls who are a little independent and who do not show their affection too plainly. The girl who is modest and sincere, quiet and unassuming, unas-suming, will make many more lasting friendships than the girl who grows too fond of every boy she meets and shows it too plainly. The flapper Is a passing fancy, and her popularity is fleeting. Do not, I entreat you, imagine ima-gine you have to become, or even imitate a flapper to be popular. Better Bet-ter far be in a class by yourself. And know this, the whole world has not gone permanently mad over the bizarre biz-arre in style, but that there are those (boys and men included) who appreciate appreci-ate the sensible, sane acting and dressing dress-ing girl. (4) A crowd of boys and girls should not go any place without some older person who can act as chaperon. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been a very interested reader read-er of your corner for some time, but I could not get up enough courage to write you about a question that has been bothering me for some time, and I am in hopes you will be able to answer an-swer it for me. I got acquainted with a boy over a year ago. He seemed to like me very much, and 'hen he asked me to marry him. But I don't know whether I should or not. He is 30 years old, and I am only 18. I think lots of him one time, and then again I don't care so much for him. I told him I could not marry for two years. He said he could wait ten years for me, or longer if need be. My parents think very highly of him. He is an exception to most boys these days. He works almost all of the time, and he can always get a job when he needs one. He also said there was nothing too good for me. But I don't seem to like him for some reason. He is a little old-fashioned but he is as firm as the Rock of Gi-bralter. Gi-bralter. He has white hair and mine is not any too dark. So what shall we do about it? I don't know what in the world to do. So I will try and get it from my mind until I get an answer from you. Hoping you have the best of luck, I am, SYLVIA, St. George, Utah. P. S. I don't like his white hair. And he is not very well educated and I have always had the desire for a well educated husband. He has a fine nature and has lots of mother wit. When he writes me he always writes in pencil instead of pen and ink. How can I give him a hint without hurting his feelings; Well, my dear, you do seem to have a problem. They say love is blind, but I doubt it, don't you? You are a wise little girl to put off the fatal day two years. You should be able to tell in that time whether or not his peculiarities, looks, habits, etc., have become so obnoxious that they will be a source of irritation to you always. He seems like an exceptional man, though (we need more old-fashioned people, it seems to me) and so whyj not keep his many good points asj much in mind as possible, and forget! the things which are not quite so attractive at-tractive about him? We all have our! bad points, you know. The question of j his light hair is rather a hard one1 to manage as I cannot see how it can1 be changed, and after all what is the difference? Too much college education educa-tion sometimes spoils an otherwise wonderful man. One can cultivate ways and habits which place them well up in the scale of what the world considers a cultivated, wll-bred person. per-son. Let this be the subject of conversation con-versation and let him know in a tactful tact-ful way what your ideas are along this line and this would apply also to the pen and ink problem. But remember, dear, we are never able to have any one made according to our own pattern pat-tern (and I wonder if we would like them if we could) so we must always be able to bear and forbear. I am wishing you the best of luck and great happiness. I Dear Miss Brooks: ! This is the second time I have written to you but I do hope I am not too much bother. Will you please |