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Show This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on questiont 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 should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. )A&t, 6?U-nC Miss Helen Brooks : Please lell me what tribe of Indians the Indian head on our Buffalo nickel represents, if any. F. ., Payson, Utah. It was James Fraser who made the design of the Buffalo nickel. The head is a composite made from five different models, and is the sculptor's ideal of an American Indian. Before the work on the relief was even begun portrait busts were made from each of the models, then portrait reliefs. This means that ten distinct portraits were completed before our new coin design was started. ; Dear Miss Brooks: Will you please tell me when Rudolph Valentino's next picture f ill he released and also the name of it? Thanking you veri; kmdly for this information, in-formation, I am, HIS WORSHIPPER, Gusher, Ut. "Beyond the Rocks" is Rudolph Valentino's latest picture and will be released the latter part of May or the first of June. Dear Miss Brooks: I am going to write and asl( you to help me and J do hope my letter won't find the Waste basket. Miss Brool(s1 what can a girl do to have friends like the other girls and be popular? All the other girls that I know here have boy friends and are always going out with them for auto rides and to shows and parties, etc., but it seems I never am asked to go anywhere, and the other girls make fun of me. . They say it is because I am too cold and call me a prude, and that if I would warm up a liltle I could have friends, too; but Miss Brooks, my mother always told me, it was not right for a girl to let the boys kiss and hug her because if she did she would always be sorry when the right man came along. ..My mother died a year ago, and it is so hard to have no one to go to. Falhet consequences if its shape is a little different, what is the speed at which it begins to curve, etc. etc., and a great many of them are still undecided. Briefly the boomerang is so shaped that the air mists one part of it more thai tt another, so that it has to travel in a curved path after its speed has slowed down below a certain rate. As it travels in a curve it more or less comes back to the place from which it started. start-ed. It is interesting to know that it has been brought to perfection anion? the natives of Australia, who are almost al-most the lowest race of mankind. Dear Miss Brooks: I Can you lell me why Boston is. called the Hub of the universe? Thank you. LOTTIE, Parowan, Utah. Oliver iWendell Holmes, himself a Bostonian, said in satire that the Bostonians thought the dome of the state house was the centre of the earth and that Boston therefore mu3t be the Hub. It might be added that Bostonians Boston-ians have a well grounded reason for being proud of their city. Boston has always been a leader in great movements. move-ments. When only a small town Harvard, Har-vard, the oldest college in the United States was founded there. The best in music, art and literature are alsa-found alsa-found in this city. Hope to hear from-you again. Dear Miss Brooks: What kind of a radio receiving set vould you advise me to get? I im figuring on putting about $50 or $75 into one, and if I get a vacuum set could I use twenty-four flashlight batteries instead of a "B" battery? RADIO, Caldwell, Idaho. Get a vacuum tube detector set, using a verio-coupler for a tuner. Yes, the flashlight batteries will do very nicely if connected up in series and tapped so that you can use any number num-ber you desire. doesn't seem to understand and I have no sisters. Do please lell me what to do. ALONE. Idaho Falls. My dear little girl, I surely would like to be of help to you because 1 know just' how hard it it for you to see your girl friends enjoying themselves them-selves while you must sit alone for the reason that you want to live up to the dear mother's teachings and not allow the boys to take liberties. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to continue to be the dear sweet girl I am sure you are, and though you may miss out in these temporary pleasures, one of these days a boy will come along who will appreciate your unspoiled sweetness because his mother will have taught him as yours has taught you thai it is worth while not to play at the game of love. You will be like a peach fresh picked from the tree, while these other girls will have all the bloom rubbed off. Be jolly and gay with others, and I am sure you will find before long that there are boys who appreciate the girls who do not care for hugging parties. Write me again when you feel like it. My Dear Miss Brooks: We have a new arrival in our family fam-ily the first, and we are so proud. He is the dearest liltle boy you ever saw, and has dark hair and eyes like his daddy. We just can't think of '' name good enough for him. Won't you please lell us a few that you like? A name is something dial has to be carried all through life and we wanl lo gel something thai he will like, loo. Thank Vou so much for your trouble. PERPLEXED, Pocatello. How happy you must be with the new little life to take care of. I don't wonder you want a nice name, and I'm going to tell you the ones that are really my favorites, but of course tastes are so different that one cannot tell what will suit some one else. I like them short, don't you? Frank, Carl, Kent, Shirley, Kenneth, Alan, Owenj Do you like any of these? And I think the custom of naming a child after the mother's maiden name, if it is appropriate, is a very nice one I hope this may be of help to you, and kiss the darling baby for me. Dear Miss Helen Brooks: While in Salt Lake recently I attended at-tended the Shriner's Circus, and saw an acl in their show where they used what they called a "boomerang." I had never seen one before and it wes very inlersting. Can you tell me why it always came back to the stage? Just an INQUIRER From Tooele. A great deal of study has been devoted de-voted to finding why the boomerang mtnt be it exact shape, what are the |