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Show ' Ll i Dear Header: This is your con.tr. All questions submitted will be cheerfully cheer-fully and carefully answered, except those seeking medical advice. Names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here, but will be sent if a self-addressed, stamped envelope accompanies the request. Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany each letter or no reply can be made. All communications are held strictly confidential. In requesting poems and songs, the correct title, the first line, or tha name of the author is necessary in order to find them. Please send stamped, addressed envelope also with these requests, so they may be forwarded directly to you. Address letters very plainly, with pen and ink, to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt T.nke fh'r-c TTfo. REQUESTED SONGS These sonps and poems are on the .requested and To-Be-Found list: Part of "Haunted Woods:" In olden time a hunter By the side of a woodland dwelt; With him lived the little family Of his wife and babies three. First lines: Take back all kind tokens you gave me, First a ring and the lock of your hair, etc. "The Old Tramp" First lines: "Have you any cheese to 'go with these pickles." As he pulled one from the jar. SONGS RECEIVED The following: songrs and poems have been received during the past week, and I wish to thnnk each one for their kindness in contributing them: Mary of the Wild Moor. If We Only Understood. In De Evening By De Moonlight. Sadie Ray. NOTICE Words to popular or standard stan-dard songs which can be had from music stores cannot be furnished through this column. Only the words to such old songs as are out of print and difficult to find, can be furnished through this column. Helen Brooks. Dear Miss Brooks: I come to your corner again, nad hope It won't be too much trouble for you to answer two questions for me. (1) What is the meaning of Lora, Dona. Max and Kate? (2) What should a girl nine years of age weigh? I weigh 02 pounds and am 52 inches in height. Is that the proper weight and height? Tour truly, BLUE EYES, Utah. No trouble. Blue Eyes. (1) Sorry, dear, but Kate is the only name you Inquire In-quire about which has a special meaning. mean-ing. Kate is a diminutive of Kather-ine, Kather-ine, meaning "pure." (2) The average height of a girl of nine is 40.01 and weight is 07.4. You are above the average av-erage height you see and should weigh 64 pounds, being only two pounds short of normal. Dead Helen: It was my first time at writing to you and I didn't know about sending the stamps for songs so please excuse me. Will you? If you were me would you associate with a girl that smokes and chews tobacco. I don't think I care to do those vulgar things but It I don't she says I am too much of a baby. Shall I associate with her? (2) I am pretty near fourteen and I have gone riding with a few boys. Is that right if they are good sociable boys? Does It hurt for a girl thirteen years old to powder? My school teacher said it wasn't proper. I must close hoping these questional won't bother you at all to answer them. I remain your friend, DOROTHY. Utah. You were welcome to the songs Just the same, dear, but thank you for sending send-ing the stamp now. (1) No. girlie. I am very sure if I were you I would not associate with a girl who smoked and chewed, because 1 could not, she would bo too repulsive to me. It is difficult to Imagine a girl who indulges In such practices as having much refinement refine-ment in speech and actions. Do you enjoy being with her and docs it make you a baby, because she says you are? Have a mind and will of your own, dear, and let others think what they will, so long as you know you are in the right. (2) I cannot approve of a girl l.'l or 14 going riding with boys, dear child. Circumstances have a great deal to do with these things. Dorothy. Is there no mother or elder relation or friend who could advise you about the Imprudence of such a course? It does not "hurt" especially for a girl of 13 to powder If she chooses to do so, but why do you wish to conceal your youthful youth-ful freshness and beauty of skin, which all older persons desire so much, by covering it with powder? Dear Friend: I am writing to you to get the meaning mean-ing of my name and symbol. Florence Is my name and Violet Is my Symbol. Your friend. Klorence. Idaho. The meaning of Florence I?, "blooming." "bloom-ing." In the language of flowers the VI' l"t stands for faithfulness and modesty. To Ida. Tooele, Ut. I hope your songs have reached you ore this, as all but three of the many you requested were mulled to you on October 22nd. The reHt have not been found yet. To DOTjA, Utah: Thanks, my doar, for tho song and your kind offer. It Is splendid of you to wish to help, and I hope I may bo of assistance to you in some way. May 1? Dear Miss Brooks: You arc such a dear to help everyone with their troubles that I am comltiK to you with mlno. I have a boy friend whom T ndrnlro very much. In fact. Miss Brooks, there Is no ono whom I llko better. lie Is a perfect gentleman at all times. I went wllh him last winter for a while but I thought I liked another fellow better than bo. so I quit him and went wllh theol her fellow. I treated him very cool until lalely. Wo speak now and T have crimfl home from pnrtlca with him and have asked him to come anil dee me but. It don't seem lo do any good. Now, MImh llrookfl, can you tell rue bow to gain bis truo friendship and be friends wllh him? Wishing you succeiis, 1 remain, one of your many riilleri, W.MTINC, Utah. Tlven If you did think you lllteil nn-oilier nn-oilier fellow heller, was MiIh any good exciino for (renting your former friend "cool?" Von lind every rlrhl lo lie (TincloiiM end pi en "a nl . and give whnt-ever whnt-ever lime you de.'ilrerl to another yollrii; mini, hill you really had no right lo mlHlrenl the oilier youne. mini when lie tin 1 always been n perfect ccnl Ionian In his I real Ttienl of you. do you think? Personally I IhlnU II very splendid of him to show you as much cnunlilei n I Inn as he has. S'cuse me, dear, for scolding scold-ing you, and I cannot see as there is a thing you can do now, except be your own sweet self and trust to the same qualities which first attracted him to you to "do it all over again." You know the days of witchcraft and love-potions love-potions are past, and I can work no "magic" to bring about an adjustment of affairs as they once were. I can advise, however, against continuing to invite him to come to see you, and showering him with your attentions, as this course will most certainly have just the opposite effect from what you wish, if this boy is anything like the sort of a boy I take him to be'. To IDAHO PEACHES: Thanks, my dear, both for your generous words and the song you enclosed. When may I return the kindness? Dear Miss Brooks: (I) Would you please tell me what a woman who writes poetry is called? (2) How old do you think I am by my writing? A. M., Idaho. (1) She is called a poetess. (2) I "guess" you are about seventeen. A. M. It was sweet of you to copy the song for me, dear, Thank you much. Dear Miss Brooks: You have helped so many with your excellent advice I want to ask you some questions. (1) I had my hair cut last August and It has been coming out. It didn't seem to come out right after it was cut but it has been falling quite a lot lately. My hair was very thick before be-fore it was cut. (2) When one has the hair on the back of the neck clipped has it a tendency to make It grow down lower and stiffer on the neck? I will come to you again when I am in trouble. Yours, DAISY, Utah. Welcome, Daisy. (1) Very often the hair has a "season" of falling out. Did it never do this before It was cut? I would not advise using the vaseline too often and do not shampoo more than every three weeks. I see no reason why the treatment you have been giv- ing it should cause the hair to come out. Do not brush too vigorously, as you may irritate the scalp. Massage the scalp gently with the finger tips and see that it is free from dandruff. (2) Clipping the hair does cause it to become be-come coarse and stiff, yes. and as the clippers are run down farther on the neck, it causes the hair which would otherwise be unnoticed, to grow in coarser and stiffer, which makes It appear ap-pear to be growing down farther on the neck. Dear Miss Brooks: I wrote to you once before and received re-ceived very satisfactory answers. Now as I read you corner each week. I do not find any of the girls havtig the same trouble that I do. I wonder why. I have gone with different boys In the last two years. Most of them were several years older than I. and I find it hard to keep your advice not to go with a boy steady, because when I go with a boy one night he usually wants me to go again. I hate to refuse and so It is every time there Is anything to attend. I wouldn't mind If It would stop there, hut as soon as we get quite well acquainted they want me to pay more attention to them than to others. .Now, don't think I'm popular because I never have chummed with the girls who can go with one boy tonight and some one else tomorrow. Nor 1 never felt that this was exactly proper. I mean 1 never felt that I wanted to go with Just anyone that wished to pick me up. Besides I could not do this and still go with some who I really feel are gentlemen. They don't object to me having friends but insist upon them being the kind that know how to treat a gird. There does not seem to bo very many of this kind of boys, at least they don't want to take one girl and then another, and I don't feel that I would gain anything by giving up those friends for another class. Do you? And how can I keep this class of boys from wanting to be more than Just real good friends? Thanking you for tho helpful advice I am sure to rocelvo. I nm, MICK'lE, Ore. It Is most regrettable, Mlcklo. that you havo gained the erroneous Impression Impres-sion you seem to have gained from reading my advice to other girls. I do not know your age. hut you will notice that my advice along those lines has been mainly to the very young girl; the one who Insists upon going out with boys when as young as fifteen, and oven younger. It Is not wise for girls this age to cheek ell boys from her list of friends or beans, except one; but rather when other boys appear whoso society she enjoys, add him to her list of good friends and puis. 1 u this way she can surround herself wllh a number of congenial friends, who feel freo to call on her, or Invite her to a dance, party or show. If In the months or years to come there develop a feeling stronger than mere friendship friend-ship forgone of those, or any ono else, It Is then time enough to dwindle down to ono "steady." Hoys should have the samo privilege, and 1 do not understand your distinction of "class of boys" In this respect. I most certainly admlm your class of friends, and would assuredly as-suredly not advise yon to consider any young men who do not know how to treat a girl In a gentlemanly manner, but why he need he less a genllemnu simply hocaiiHc ho spends one evening this week wllh you, and one next week wllh your girl friend, 1 cannot aoo. Young girls and boys are too prone lo look upon everyone who shows I hum Hie HllghlcNl allentlim, as a possible, lover or swoolhcMii, huHhand or wire. The association together or young boys unci girls In n eo in pa rr In nn bio manner Is youth's in. ml enjoyable, lino. bccaimo It Is the mosl carorroo period, so let II be a time or "good times." nn aaan-chrlliin aaan-chrlliin of friendly puis, reserving I he sweet heaii 'nail lover, husluiud and wife Miougiil for- morn rnnluro years. do not know how you ca II keep Ihene hoys from uuiillnu c he more llinu good friends, hill If you do not wish llieni lo be more Minn Mil;, you can frankly tell them so, which la the henl coui'mc, I believe. And now have I been helprul In Holding ihene qucnt Ions up for you? I hope so, anil will be Kind lo heal' flolll nil UK" In. |