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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 care- H fully and' promptly all questions submitted to me. Your full name ana p address must accompany each letter sent. For special information send m stamped envelope. All communications will always be held m absolute con- m fidence. , . . , All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks. Box '1545, Salt Lake City. J Dear Miss Brooks: Thavo been very interested in your corner and thought I would have you answer some questions for mo. (1) If a girl should go to a certain place and meet a boy friend whilo she Is there, when sho gets back homo Is sho supposed to write to him first? (2) Suppose you know a boy friend for a long time and 'while you was in a certain town go and seo him nnd then after you return home is the girl supposed to write first? Hoping you will understand mo, I remain, as ever, a friend, PEGGY. (1) You should have had an understanding under-standing if tho young man asked you to correspond with him, that he should write first, ns this would Qavo been more proper. In cither enso you refer to. it would not bo improper for you to write a short letter letting them know you had arrived home. Dear Miss- Brooks: I am very interested in your corner and wish you everlasting success. I have n question or two. Is it a fact that girls nnd boys are better looking at eighteen to twenty than they are nt fourteen to sixteen years of age? (2) Is an absolute cure for eczema? (3) In going away from your home town and going out with boys or young men whom your parents par-ents arc not very well acquainted with, should you have n chaperon? (4) Is Florence Vidor, an actress in the movies, a married womnn? (5) What is the best way to leave your hair at night when it is curly so it will not break off? (C) When a boy nsks to bring you homo from a dance, should you ask your mother if he may or just tell him "yes" or "no," as you think best? I am sixteen. Ever yours, INQUISITIVE, Randolph, Ut. Thanks, my dear. (1) No, it is not a fact that boys and girls nre better looking at one ngc than another. (2) I would not say the article mentioned was an absolute ab-solute euro for eczema, but if you will send your name and stamped envelope en-velope I can give you the name of a guaranteed cure for eczema. (3) Strictly speaking, you should not attend at-tend any public nffnir without a chap-erone chap-erone and when you take this precaution pre-caution you'ean feel you have left no room for criticism. This custom is adhered to more carefully in the eastern states than it is in our western west-ern country, but it is- always more proper to be chaperoned, and is coming to be so considered everywhere. (4) I have been unable to get a lino up on Florence Vidor as to whether she is married or not. Sho is twenty-seven yenrs of age, her home address is 1719 Selma Ave, Los Angeles, Calif., and her studio address is 6(542 South Monica Mo-nica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., so you may write to her, if you wish. (5) I would advise wearing a cap which fits the head snugly to keep your hair in -order. (6) I think you could U3e your own judgment in accepting or refusing tho boy's offer to bring you home. Dear Miss Brooks: I am very interested in your corner "Betweon You and Mo," and would like to ask a question. Is good for dandruff? Is it a sure cure? In your last answers I found the words for the songs "Sweet Adolino" nnd "Memories." I like the words Very much and would like to havo the music. I would like to play them on the piano. Thanking you very much. May I come again? KITTY, Utah. The tonic you mention does not guarantee a cure for dandruff. If you send -your nanto arid stamped envelope, I will send you tljo name of one which does guarantee a cure. Will also send you the name of a firm where you can get the music to the songs mentioned. Dearest Helen: Hail our approach! We hope we reach you successfully for this is our first journey to your corner. We uro two interested and very inquisitive girls, and many questions which wa cannot solve often confront us. From our observations we find that the girl who allows the boys to kiss her goodnight, good-night, and put his arms around her is always the girl who seems to be "popular," always having a fellow nnd a good time, while tho girl who doesn't allow those privileges sits in tho corner und is never looked at. no matter how she tries to be sociable. You have said in previous ajiswers that a boy doesn't really respect a girl who allows him privileges; but why doesn't he show his respect for a modest mod-est girl by showing her a good time? r We hope you will be able to answer this complex question without much bother. BILL and BOB, Utah. You uriived and nre weleome. Heaven deliver us (and you) from popularity gained in this manner, Bill and Bob, don't you say so? I reiterate that tho right sort of boy does not respect tho irl who allows him these privilep.es, and while this sort may seem scarce now, it rests with you girls who havo been trained firoperly and who" consider your girl-lood girl-lood a pure, sacred thing, which you alone can keep undcfilcd and pure from contamination with the riff-raff who insults you b demanding such HL-arties and privileges, to so conduct .-ourselves thut more boys may be rought to understand they havo no "lit to think of offering such insults, no are such boys, girls, nnd you ' find them, for like begets like. ... you ure entitled to a "good tinny'- Dear Miss Brooks: g , I but you would not call it a good time, would you, if you had to submit"to t-uch treatment just to go places with this class of boys? All hnil to yon girls 1 May success nnd hnppincss attend you, nnd may your tribe in-; crease. Dear Miss Brooks: We are very much interested in ycur corner, and wish to ask n few ques- tionsr: I (1) Is n girl at seventeen too young to marry? , , (2) Should a girl nt eishtccn bo her own boss, or should sho take her mother's ndvico nil tho time? (3.) Wouldn't it be well for a light comploxioncd girl to marry a light x complcxioned boy? (4) Is jt proper for a boy to give a girl a very expensive birthday present? pres-ent? Thanking you for the trouble, PEGG and TOOTS, Wasatch, Ut (1) Yes, girls, quite too young to, marry. You should only bo beginning begin-ning to go with the boys. (2) Your mother, my dears, usually has moro interest in -you than any 'one else in the world, and is not apt to advise you wrongly. Sho is supposed to bo her own "boss" in n lawful sense nt that age. (3) I scarcely think the complexion com-plexion has a great deul to do with whether or not a happy marriage will result. (4) No, you should not nc- , cept an expensive gift from a mero friend. Dear Miss Brooks: I wnnt to ask you a question or two,-which two,-which I know you arc capable of answering. an-swering. I havo been reading every week your little corner in the paper. And now I um sure you nnswer questions, ques-tions, using good judgment, so here I'll bother you for a little advice. It's just a little misunderstanding between my fellow nnd myself. You havo Baid "Try not to let a fellow know that you care a great deal for him." Well. I do care for him, and no doubt he has found it out. But really I have been told and I believe it, that he has said ho will not coax any girl. Nor he won't bother a girl that doesn't care for him. Please sympathize sympa-thize with me. Ho has heard I have another fellow, and that I like this, other fellow hotter than him, and that I am going to quit him the first time he comes over. He lives twenty miles, from here. Before I knew nbout what ho had heard I wrote him a letter, inviting him over to n dance. He neither answered the letter nor camo to the dance. I am going away to-school to-school within the next two weeks. I would surely like to seo him beforo leaving. But I don't like to write to him again when ho didn't answer tho last letter I wrote him. Now plcaso tell mo what you think would be best to do. Ho is a real nice fellow. He doesn't smoke, ho hasn't any bad habits, hab-its, and has always treated mo as well as a girl could expect. But he just doesn't think I liko him. I know that part of it for a fact He is going on a mission, and if I go to school without seeing him, he' will probably be gone before I return. I know he would never write to me. I hate to confess,, but I have been flirting a little. Ho got an awkward misunderstanding through some unknown party. Pleas-e-tell mo what to do. Thanking you very much, -I am a simple young lady living in Utah. You cannot afford to give your lovo unbidden, my dear.: You admit you care for him and also say you think ho knows it, then later you say he doesn't think you care for him. Dearie, if a man loves you he will tell yon about it; he just can't help it, and it is his privilege to do so not yours to tell him. You have a right to4 have other friends if you arc not engaged en-gaged to, this one, nnd if he loved you he would bo very careful not to believe anything ho was not sure of. If he received your letter ho should havo been gentleman onough to nn-t-.vcr it, regardless of misunderstandings. misunderstand-ings. Perhaps ho did not receive it In that case, you might write him a note telling him you nre going away. Ho seems to be a worthy young man, and as such, should be shown every courtesy, but not to tho extent of sacrificing your dignity. I do sympathize sym-pathize with you, and I am sure this affair will work out in a way that is best for you. |