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Show I I M I lit II !! I Illll iMI " Tl' This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on question that are puzzlini you. It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. If a more detailed answer han can be given in these columns is desired, send a stamped envelope and it will be given prompt attention- All communications will always be held in absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink t Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Xk&CPuri ed towards you. Breaking an engage, ment is of course a serious thing, so you should be sure of your reasons. Whatever prompted him to act as he did at the time of the accident may have passed and he may now be as loyal to you as ever. My dear Misa Brooks: I have two or three questions t ask you. (1) How old should a yourv? lady be before beginning to think of marrying?, (2) Could you tell mo how anyone could take a scar off of their arm after it had been on there a year or more ? Thanking you in advance. ad-vance. McCammon, Idaho. (1) You might begin to THINK of marryinp at a very early age, but I hope you will not consider taking this mw', important step before you are twetlty-one or twenty-two. You will then rlT ample time left for the responsibilities and cares of married life. Enjoy your girlhood and hold your ideal of a husband very high. (2) It depends a great deal upon what kind of a scar you have as to whether it can be removed. If it is a deep scar it cannot be removed, but if only a slight one it may be possible pos-sible to remove it. A deep scar such J as vaccination makes, cannot be removed. re-moved. Dear Miss Brooks: I have come to you to ask a question. ques-tion. I am sixteen years old and I have a boy-friend who is the same age. He will go with me and take me to the show, but you don't know whether he likes you or not. Will you please tell me if you can how I could find out whether he likes me or not? Sometimes he acts so funny you wouldn't think he liked anybody. I am hoping to hear from you soon. Your true friend, A WONDERER of Utah. Watchful waiting would seem to be-about be-about the only course you can pursue. Your friend is very likely the quiet, reserved type and is possibly eccentric" also, and it would tako a long acquaintance ac-quaintance with him before you feel that you really know him. Bide your time, dear if he likes you he will let you know about it, and in the meantime mean-time go to the shows and enjoy them and do not think too miiich about whether he likes you or not. He evidently evi-dently enjoys being with you or he wouldn't care to 'take you any place, and that is all that i3 necessary at the age of sixteen. Dear Miss Brooks: Please tell me what day of the week I was born on. My birthday Is on Do-cember Do-cember 25, 1907. , LEXIA, Roosevelt, Utah. I find you arrived here on Wednesday. Wednes-day. Let me hear from you again- Dear Miss Brook : I Em very much pl-n.ed with the answers you have griven in connection with the questions ques-tions that I have read in your corner and I am sure you can help me with thi- one. I have be-jn go nz with a certain fellow for some time, though 1 was no- en-raged, but will admit that I odmlrod hbn very much and think he adrm'red me. He asked me to no to a dance and I refused. so he took one of my very dear gir friends and is now paying his attention to her. Will you please tell me what I am to do? Am I supposed to ask hit pardon, as I shouldn't think this would be proper: or what do you think is beat? I have confided iny trouble in aLmost every dear fr end and it seems as though they cannot can-not or will not help me. Thanking you, I am, D V. J., Idaho. Well, here's another nice young man who's "peeved" about something. I would say it all depended on what reason you cave him fur not going to the dance as to why he has not returned to you. Perhaps you do not dance at all. In that case he may have thought ho preferred to go with a girl who dues dance. In any case I would not ask his pardon as I cannot see where you have any reason to do so. Should he talk to you on this particular subject again and you have anything to explain, it would be perfectly proper to do so, but not otherwise. Don't ivorry, dear; if he admirod you and enjoyed your company he will no doubt come again some of these days. Thank you for your encouraging en-couraging words and 1 hope this answer wll be of help to jju. Dear Miss Brooks: Will you please tell me the address and price of the "Ladies Home Journal," an Eastern publication ? DEE. Idaho. The Ladies' Home Journal is publfohed by The Curtis Publishing Co,, 653 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. The subscription price is $1.50 a year. My dear Miss Brooks : I havo two questions which have been bothering me for a long time. 1. When a boy says "I am very glad to have met you," what Is the proper reply? 2. If a boy writes to a girl, then stops, , and then starts afra-'n. and then ato;te, and the girl writes last, would it be good form for the girl to write ftgrain if she thinks a good deal of this boy? Thanking you, LEILA. Salt Lake. (1) A pleasant smile and a quiet "Thank -you," ts all that is necessary, in answer to a boy's expression of pleasure at having met you. (2) To write the second time would not be bad form as ho migrht not have received re-ceived the first one; but do not consider writing writ-ing after that, as it is very bad form to continue writing, just as it is not good form to continue to try to interest a boy after he has shown you plainly that he does not care for your attention. Dear Miss Brooks : Two of our town girls have ouesHons and wish you would answer them. How old should a girl be before starting to go with a boy ? The other is, what kind of gamee should you play at a rjarty? MAGGIE and MERIOS. Kingston. Utah You should be at least sixteen befor r:it ly gfing out to parfic with boys, and then you should go only with boy's you and your parents know well. You will not regret following fol-lowing this advice, I can assure ycu. As 1 cannot tako the space to explain many games. I will give you one on the contest order which is Interesting. .Select pictures cf motion picture pic-ture stars, or of well known, nationally advertised ad-vertised articles. Cut thee pictures ,vaU number them and fasten them on the wall, of the room. Give your guests paper and pencil, and the one who gives the greatest nurvber of correct answer as to who the stars are, or what the article is, receives a prize; and the one who has the fewest correct cor-rect answers rets tha booby prize. Dear Miss Brooks : Can you tell me what to do for a scaly and blotchy complexion, and also what to do for my h&ir? It is juiit like it is dead and it isn't oily at all. Thanking you In advance. BETTY, Utah. The blotchy condition may be due to many reasons and cannot usually be remedied by treatment through the skin. The scaly condition condi-tion Is probably- caused by washing the face with Impure soap. Try cleansing the face with a good cleansing cream. Do this regularly reg-ularly at least once a day. If you use powder ehaiure to some other rood grade. It may be the powder which is causing the trouble. Regarding Re-garding your hair, your scalp needs a good, thorough massaging with the tips of the fingers in a circular movement DAILY. Before Be-fore shampooing massage vaseline or olive oil into the scalp thoroughly and shampoo with a good tar soap. Rinse In water In which a lemon, skin nnd all, has been boiled and then strained. Clip the ends of your hair once a month until it improves. Let me hear from you after you have followed these directions faithfully for a month or two. My dear Missf Brooks: I am deeply troubled and feel that I should ask someone's advice. About two weeks ago my girl friend and I, in company with my fiance, were out boatriding and the boat was accident-ly accident-ly fi&psized. We girls were both good Bw-fiSmers, but njy fiance made no effort' ef-fort' to help me but seemed very anxious to help my girl friend. That evening called on her to see if she suffered any ill effects, but did not call on me. Since then he has called on me the same as usual. As I do not feel that it was merely a friendly interest in-terest that prompted him to call on her, should I receive his attentions the same as- usual, or should I break my engagement? Please advise me what to do. "ANXIOUS" Rigby, Idaho. Absolute sincerity and frankness Is necessary to all friendship of whatever what-ever degree, so it would seem to me that an explanation was due from your fiance.- Unless he could give satisfactory explanation of hjs conduct con-duct at the time of the accident, I think you should offer to free him from his engs-gemenL You should be "able to tell by his actions since that time whether his feelings have chang- |