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Show This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on questioni that are puzzling 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 than 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 rhculd be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks. Box 1545. Salt Lake City. XAt, 6?Url6 ' and it It U to be m June wedding, that is tl-.e month of routs, yon know. 4th. .The tamo rule for rating corn off the rob would apply In a public dining place aa at home. If no corn holders are aerved, simply taaa the corn in the finsera and ent it aa unobtrusively unob-trusively as possible. Often corn holders are served. 6th. In a public restaurant or hotel, when dining- in the evening-. It is correct to either wear a costume with a hat, or to appear ap-pear in evening dress without a bat. st-h. Yea, it is quite proper for a rirl to spend an evening occasionally at the home of her fiance with his family. I hope, my dear, that these answers will be of help to yu. and if you are the engaged girl mentioned, I surely wish you Joy. Dear MLsa Brooks: I am In much trouble. There are three-questions three-questions I would like to ask you. (a) There la a certain boy In this town that said ho loved me and wanted an answer. 1 loved h'm but did not like to tell him, so what would you do sin that case? (bl If you wanted to be friendly with a boy how would1 you (to at it T Would you hang around him, or what would you doT (c) I went over to-a to-a lady's home the other day and the boy I was talking about In my first question cam up and aa soon as he came 1 went home, but I would have liked very much to hav stayed only I did not want him to think that I went there because he came. Would it have been better if I had stayed and talked to hlmT Thanking you In advance. TROUBLED. Drift pra. Idaho. Dear little troubled girl : . (a) . Let us sincerely sin-cerely hope you will never have any greater great-er troubles. Now if I only knew how old. you are I could give yon better advice. Do ywu think you are old enough to know tho meaning of the word "love?" Don't yo really think that what you mean is that you like this boy friend jut a little better than some of the others perhaps T (b) To gain anyone! friendship just be your own nataral unaffected aelf and be pleasant and agreeable. NO, never "hang around" a boy. They abhor that. (c) Well. I wonder why you thought you should go home as sosn aa your friend came. Surely it would have been better to stay and talk to him. I believe be-lieve you should try to overcome self-consciousness and possibly a little bashfulnesa. Dear Miss Brooks : By 'chance the other day I saw a paper with your corner in It and I wondered If you would do something for me. First I will tell you something of myself so that you will better know what I want I will soon be eighteen yean old and I live on a small ranch about one mile from a small village. The past two and a half years 1 have been sick. I have had three operations, and this coming July I will h-o ae&'n on the operating table for what I hope will be the laat time. Just now I am able to be up and around and do some light work. There is nothing in this neighborhood to keep the "blues"' away. I would like to start a correspondence friendship friend-ship with some other girl who is loneeome and gets the blues. I am sure some other girl near my age has written to you for a lonesome cure, and I would like to have her name and address. Maybe I can also do someone some-one else some good while I am receiving good myself. I am hoping so, anyway. I thank you in advance. Take all my love you want. as I hava lota to spare. MISS MYRTLE CHAPMAN, Burrill. Calif. 1 am putting: this lonely girl's letter In Just as aha wrote H. address and alL in the hope that soma of my nice girls who write to me may see it and write te thfa girl who has had ao much mors than her share ef pain and suffering, and for bar 1 thank y. My dear Mlas Brooks : I am interested in "our corner" and would appreciate it to some extent if you would answer ans-wer the following questions : If you were at the danea hall with a few friends and they were asked to dance, leaving you alone, what would you do? What Is a polite and courteous, way of refusing a dance? Is it correct for a girl to wander away from a ballroom with a fiance? Thanking- you for your trouble, I hall be. A CONSTANT FRIEND. Utah. If you have a choperone, aa you really should have at a dance hall, all you can do la to remain at her side until someone claims yon for the dance, or until your fr'ende return. re-turn. In refusing a dance it la only necessary neces-sary to say, "I am sorry but my program ia quite full," or "Thank you. but I do not think I shall dance thia number. I am a little tired." However, it would not be proper to refuse a dance to one man and give the same danca to another, but it is quite proper to deny yourself to one boy and if he then roes in search of another partner, to walk or talk with another while the dance is in progress. pro-gress. It is all right for a girl and her fnce to leave th- dance room, but they should not remain absent ao long as to make rt r.otlceabla. Dear Miss Brooks : . Will you please answer some questions for me? How many times may a girl dance with a boy without breaking the rules of etiquette ? Is It proper for a girl to ask for a dance? May you refuse a dance without a reason ? Thauk you. YOUR INQUIRER, Utah. Ta dance too frequently with one young man is considered both indiscreet and Ill-mannered. Ill-mannered. The boy who escorts you to the danee has the rieht to ask for three dances the first, the last, and one in between ; and he should do his bent to see that you have other partners; but If for any reason you do not have, it is all rirht for you to dance with him a time or two more. It makes a frlrl rather eonsplcurus if she dances several dances with ore bov in succession. A irirl does not ask a boy for a dance anyway, un-lea un-lea it is Leap Year, which it Isn't this yeal. That la the boy's prerogative. Hope this is what you wanted, and you are quit welcome. Dear Helen Brooks : I have just discovered your corner, "Just between you and me." bo I am comimr straight to you. I am sure these questions have bothered both-ered other girls, and also have been asked before, and I wish you good success in answering- them for me. 1st. I am dark complected. complect-ed. What can I do- to wh'ten my skin T 2nd. My face is also marred with tiny blackheads. black-heads. What would you auprirest ? And again' my hair is giving me considerable trouble. It refuses to grow and is thin and short. Having kept up with the styles it has been necessary to snarl it. Should I cut it, or can I help it otherwise? Best wiihes, F. F., Manti. Utah. If your complexion is naturally dark, my dear, it ia a pretty hard matter to change it, and from what you say I Buppore it Is, and that you are not simply tanned. If you wish to try a mild bleach, you can no drmbt get an excellent one at your local ' drug store. For the blackheads a good Acne Cream can also bn secured at the same place, and should be used after thoroughly thor-oughly cleaning the face with a good soap and water, or with a cleansirg cream. .As for the hair, I should hate to cut it if I were you, though if it is badly broken at the end-i from the snarlinjr process, and you are younc; enough. It might be all rirht to do so. Massage Mas-sage is always good for the scalp, and pulling pul-ling the hair to bring the blood to the rur-face, rur-face, but these things have to be persisted in systematically in order to do any good. You do hot say whether yv-u have dandruff, but It ia very probable that you have, and if so, get a bottle of dandruff cure and use acenrd-ina- to directions, and I am sure you will be pleased with the results. Of course you must keen the scalp clean, shampooing it with ft food soap as often as necessary. Oily hair needs shampooing much oftener than if it is dty. I hope hoh the hair and complexion atJty very soon show signs of improvement. Dear Mias Brooks : I am a constant reader of your little corner corn-er and havo found it very interesting. Beinjr a young g'rl. I have many questions to ask. so pleas help me, Miss Brooks. 1st. Is it proper for a girl to call a boy up on the telephone? 2nd. Will you please tell me how to introduce a man to a woman? 3rd. t)o you know how to decorate the home for a wedding? th. What ia the correct way to eat com on the cob In a public dining room ? 6th. Is it correct for a woman to wear a hat In a restaurant or hotel din'ng room in the evening? 6th. Is It proper for a girl to spend the eveniror on Sunday night after meeting with a boy at his home, if they are Ulraged 7 Thanking you in advance. I am. PEGGY. Idaho. Well, try dear, you DID have a few questions ques-tions didn't you? .To begin with No. I: it all depends. However, there are not very many occasions when it would not be better to let him do the calling. It is never wise to call a boy at his place of business, if he Is working, as his time then belongs to his employer. It would be all right to call him at his home occasionally if yoa felt H T. N-Mw, n hnt Ho not do as so manv rirl An and run hire to death with calls, as he might get the idea that you were running after hinr and you know if he has a 'phone it Is just as easy for him to call you if he wants to talk to you, and then you will KNOW he wants to hear from you and isn't saying under un-der his breath when he hears your voice. "O darn it there's that girl again. Why can't she let me alone?" Aid that's that. 2nd You only need say, "Mrs. Brown, let me present Mr. Smith." This form is correct on almost any occasion. Do not say "Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Smith," aa this form la awkward and no longer used. Another An-other form is. "It gives me much pleasure to present Mr. Smith to yen, Mrs. Brown:" rr "This is Mr. 8mith, Mrs. Brown. I would like to have you know him." No. 3. A nice way to decorate the home for a wedding wed-ding if yu have a large room on the parlor floor that yen can use, is to make a sort of chapel by making a bower at one end with flowers and measuring off an aisle sp&ce with white ribbons. Of ccurse it is much according accord-ing to the space you have to use, and how large a wedding it is to be. If you have a mantelp'ece, you could bank it with flowers and let the wedding party stand in front of It. One can use one's own individual tate In arranging these things and make a very beautiful room by using as many flowers as Tosaible. Roses art always beautiful to u |