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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 alwavs be held in absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Z6inCi Dear Miss Brooks: I would like to ask you a Question or two. I hope I am welcome. (1) What are the duties ot a student body secretary? (2) Where could I obtain the poems, "Curfew Muct Not Ring Tonight." and "Kentucky Belle" ? Thanking you in advance. MAY, UTAH. The duties of a atudent body secretary do not ditler to any extern from the duties of the secretary of any society or organization. Following Fol-lowing is as nearly as I can tell you here the duties of a secretary. The secretary is the recording officer of the assembly and the custodian cus-todian of its records, except such as are. specifically spe-cifically assigned to others, as the treasurer's books. In addition to keeping the records of the Bociety and the minutes of the meetings, it is the duty of the secretary to keep a register, or roll of its members and to call the roll when required : to notify officers, committees and delegates of their appointment, and to furnish committees with all papers referred to them, and delegates with credentials : and tc Bign with the president all orders on the treasurer treas-urer authorized by the society unless otherwise specified in the by-laws. It is his duty to end out proper notices of all called meetings when necessary, and to conduct the correspondence corres-pondence of the society except in case there is a corresponding secretary. Previous to each meeting the scretary should, for the use of the chairman, make out an order of business, showing show-ing in their exact order what is necessary tc come before the assembly. He should have at each meeting a list of all standing committees and such special committeeB as are in existence at the time, and the by-laws of the organiza tion and its minutes. In the absence of the chairman (if there is no vice-president present) i it is his duty to call the meeting to order and to preside until the election of a chairman pro tem., which should take place immediately. When a committee is appointed, the secretary wrong to ritht as I see it. for I take It that you did not encourage him to think you cared for him. And now, my dear, let me advise you to choose your friends very carefully, especially espec-ially your boy friends, and then conduct yourself in such a manner that it leaves no room for doubt In their minds as to how they must conduct themselves while with you. Dear Miss Brooks ; 1 have been very interested in your cornef, "Between You and Me." I have a few questions I would like to ask you. (1) Will you pleasa give me the history of the Forget-me-not and . the Pond Lily. (2) There is a crowd of youn N girlB that have just joined the bee-hive awarm. Will you give us a swarm name and its mean-in? mean-in? I hope you will have success in anawering my Question. SWEETHEART, Mink Creek, Ida. ' An Indian legend of how the Water or Pond Lily become known and named, appeared ap-peared in your paper a few weeks ago. I will reprint it here for you : The Indians believed that the Btars were the homes of those who hod walked across the Starry Bridge of Souls, nnd one night they saw a star leave the sky and come half way toward the earth. That night a young brave dreamed that the star came and told him to ssV his wise men what, shape she might take mat Bhe could dwell with the red people, whom he lovd, forever. The wise men said for her ;o choose for herself. So at first she came to Mve in the heart of a white rose on the mountain moun-tain side, but she was very lonely, so she next took up her dwelling in a prairie flower, but great herds of buffalo went thundering by and she was frightened. Co she again act forth to find a resting place, and as she floated over a great, blue lake, she saw her shadow in the water, and sank down to rest on its cool bosom. The next morning the lake was covered with great, white, shining flowers, with golden hearts. The Indians said the White Star had called her sisters to live among them. They called them "Wahbegwannee, the White Star Flower3." The following is an interesting little history of the Forget-me-not : It is related that a young couple, on the eve of their marriage, were walking along the banks of a river and saw a cluster of Forget-me-not floating on the stream. The bride-to-be admired the beauty of the flower and lamented it3 destiny. The lover plunged into the water to rescue it but having caught it, found himself sinking. He made a final effort and threw it at the feet of his betrothed, exclaiming ex-claiming as he did so, -'forget-me-not 1" Since that event this flower has been made emblematical emblemat-ical of the sentiment, forget-me-not. How would the "White Star Swarm" be for a name, emblematic of purity, and the Pond J.ily as the symbol. Or the Indian name "O va issa," meaning bluebird and have th bluebird as your symbol. Dear Miss Brooke, I am a reader of your Interesting corner, and seeing how many others you have helped, I now enter your corner to ask for help. Will you please publish in the Mount Pleasent Pyramid paper, the words to the song, "Down by the Weeping Willow" 7 Hoping you can find it somewhere, with my best wishes, I thank you. 14 A tit .rwu- Xf : TTU should hand the names of the committee, and all papers referred to it, to the chairman of the committee, or some other of its members. He should endorse on the reports of committees the date of their reception, and what further action was taken upon them, and preserve them among the Tecords, for which he is responsible. respon-sible. (2) The poem, "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," will appear as soon as we have space for it. The other, "Kentucky Belle," has twenty-nine verses, bo we will be unable to print it. The book, "Practical Elocution," published pub-lished by the Penn Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, contains this poem. The book has 300 pages and the price is $1.76. I will save your envelope, in case we have no room for your other poem we can send it to you. Dear Miss Brooks: I read your corner "Between You and Me," every week, and gain a great deal of knowledge from it. I hope you will answer my requests as well aa you do the great many other letters let-ters which are sent in. Will you plea3e send me the words to the following song3 : "Just as the Sun Went Down," and "The Little Bed Canoe." Hoping I am not taking up too much space in your corner, I am as ever, BROWN EYES, Roberts, Idaho. I am happy to welcome you, Browneyes. Strange as it may seem I have not located your songs, but am sure I can do so, and they will appear when I do. In the meantime send me your name (as the column requests), so if there is no space to print them I can send them to you direct. Very sorry Pauline to have to report 1 am unable to locate your song. Are you quite sure this is the right title? You see I have to have the correct title or the first line of the song before I can successfully find it. If you can remember these and are sure one or both are correct I will be very happy to try again to locate it for you. Dear Miss Brooks: This is the first I have ever written to you. I have two questions I would like to ask. (1 What is the Red Ri r named after T (2) Wher is It located? Thanking you in advance I am, BLUE EYES, Idaho. I do not find from what source the Red Rivers (of which there are two) derived their names, The Red River of the North is a river of the United States and Canada. This river rises in the west-central part of Minnesota, Min-nesota, and after describing a small curve to the south end west, it turns northward at Wahpeton, North Dakota, and for about 200 miles forms the boundary between Minnesota and North Dakota, and eventually emptie. into Lake Winnipeg. The principal tributaries of this river are the Shc..nne and Pembina in N. D., and the Aasiniboine in Manitoba, Hie other Red River is the southernmost or the more Important tributaries of, the nissi-.jppi, nd has it3 80urce jn Bevera, streams of Northern Texas. This stream follow, nn easterly course between Texas and Oklahoma, enters Arkansas, and cutting off the houthwestcrn corner of the state, flow, southeasterly south-easterly through Louisiana until it reaches the Mississippi. -Dear Miss Brooks ; I have read your corner in the paper every week for a long time and have gotten some very good advice from it. This is the first time I have written to vou but hope you will not be too busy to help me with some questions that are bothering me. (1) When a boy nnd girl are walking together should the boy take the girls arm or should the girl take the boys? (2) What are the lastest dance steps? (3) There is a certain boy in our town who insists on kissing me on the forehead while he is dancing with me. My girl friends say he does not annoy them with such actions. I have asked him to discontinue this and have even refused to dance with him several times, but he always asks me until 1 am ashamed to turn him down any more and I do not like to turn him down anyway as he is a very good dancer. What would you suggest? (4) This summer while I was visiting friends in another town I met a very nice boy who fell desperately desper-ately in love with me. After I came home he wrote to me and 1 answered his letters. A week ago he came to see me and insisted that 1 marry him immediately. I refused because I did not love him. Since he went home he has turned out as his friends term it to be "a bad boy." He got drunk and had a fight with hiB be3t friend and is drinking and fighting all the time now and his folks cannot do a thing with him. His sister and several friend have written to me telling me how I have ruined him. broke his heart and sent him to the bad. They say I led him on just on purpose to have the fun of dropping him and hi3 family feel very hard toward me. I am so distressed. I cannot marry him because I do not love him. I am twenty years old and surely know my own heart. What can I do? Hoping you can nelp me right the wrong I have caused, and wishing you every success in your work. T nm WILD FLOWER OF IDAHO (1) The girl should take the boy's arm always. al-ways. (2) New yersion of the Fox Trot in fact Fox Trots in various forms seem to be the most popular of all daces. Perhaps among the newest extreme., of this dance are the Scandal Walk and the Frisco Walk. Variations Varia-tions of the Tango are also popular. (3) Well my dear, I must confess that such a situation is "beyond" me to understand, I can neither understand how a boy could show you so little consideration or respect, or how you could possibly permit such "carryings on." And now you are not going to allow it any more, are you? For you mu..t know that this is not only the last word in impropriety, but places you in a ve-y awkward and undesirable unde-sirable position in regard to other persons. You should in no uncertain language mel;e i' known to him that under no consideration" I would you dance with him again unless yon-wishes yon-wishes were re.--pec-ict! in this matter l.'l .. for this other --e.W I do not think vou should worry or badly about an .in- this boy to "g0 to the had." for to be mi it., "f .-a,lk wilh you 1 think i.e was fully half Kav os the ro-.d to b-uMom" b.-for.; you met 'him You should feel very thankful imked f,.r having esraiKjd, and i mint -vxj you used great good judgment in thU ease. Do not fret b-ut what any ove says. IT it took only thi. an excuse for him to act in such a mnnn-r it is netter tnat it ha.):,,iie;l thi-. way. ,-nther th n later, had you married him. You have no |