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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 care- , fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. If a more detailed answer than can be given in these columnr is desired, send a stamped envelope and it will be given prompt attention- All communications will always be held m absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1545. Salt Lake City. X4(3id ' Dear Miss Brooks t By chance the other day I saw a paper with your comer in it and I wondered if you would do something for me. First 1 will tell you something of myself bo that you will better know what I want, I will ioon be eighteen years old and I live on a email ranch about one mile from a small village. The past two and a half years I have been ick. I have had three operations, and thin coming July I will go again on the operating table for what I hope will be the last time. J uat now I am able to be up and around and do lome light work. There is nothinar in this neighborhood to keep the "blues" away. I would like to start a correspondence friendship friend-ship with some other girl who is lonesome and gets the blues. I ajn 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 have lots to spare. MISS MYRTLE CHAPMAN, Barrel!. Calif. I am patting this lnneiy rirl's letter In Just as she wrote it, address and alt in the hops that some of my nice girls who write to me may see It and write to this girl who has had so much mors than her share of pain and suffering-, and for her I thank yon. My dear Miss 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 danee hall with a few friends and they were asked to dance, leaving you alone, what would you do T 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 T Thanking you for your trouble, 1 shall be, A CONSTANT FRIEND, Utah. If yxw have a ehaperone, as you really should hare at a dance hall, all you can do Is to remain at her side until someone claims yen for the dance, or nntil your friends return. re-turn. In refusing a dance it is only necessary neces-sary to say, "I am sorry but my program Is quite fall, or "Thank you, but I do not think I shall dance this number. I am a little tired." However, it would not be proper to refuse a dance to one man and give the sane dance to another, but it is quite proper to deny yourself to one boy and if he then goes in search of another partner, to walk or talk with another while the dance (s in pro- j gress. It Is all right for a girl and her, fiT to leave th" dm net fom, but they I should not remain absent so long as to make it rotieeable. 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 ak for a dance? May you refuse a dance wi'.hout a reason ? Thauk you. YOUR INQUIRER. Utah. To dance too frequently with one young man Is considered both Ind:screet and ill-mannered. ill-mannered. The boy who escorts you to the danee has the right to ask for three dances the first, the last, and one in between; and he should do his bent to see that you hare , other partners; but if for any reason you do . not have, it is all right for you to dance 1 with him a time or two more. It makes a girl rather conspicuous if she daneea several dunce with one boy in Fuceession. A girl does not ask a boy for a dance nny wny, un-les un-les it is Leap Year, which it isn't this yesr. That is the boy's prerogative, Hope this is what yon wanted, and you are quite welcome. Dear Helen Brooks : I have just discovered your corner. "Just between you and me," so I am coming 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 ans-wering them for me. 1st. I am dark complected. complect-ed. What can I do to wh;ten my skin? 2nd. My face is also marred with tiny blackheads. black-heads. What would you sugtrent? 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 ben necessary to snarl it. Should I cut it, or can I help it otherwise? Best wishes. F. F., Manti, Utah. If your complexion is naturally dark, my dear. It Is a pretty hard mntter to change it, and from what yon say I suppoo? it is, and that you are not sirrply tanned. If you wish to try a mild bleach, you can no dubt get an excellent one at your local drug store. For the blackheads a good Acne Cream can also be secured at the same place. and should be ued after thor-ourhtv- cleaning the face with a good scap and water, or with a cleanslrr cream. .As for the hair. I should hate to cut It If I wrre I jrm, though If it Is badly broken at the end j from the snarling process, and you ere younc enough. It might be H rirht to do so. Man-sage Man-sage is always good for the scalp, ard pulling pul-ling the hair to bring the blood to the snr-faee, snr-faee, but thre things have to be persisted in systematically In order to do any good. You do not say whether yu have dandruff, but I it is very probable that you have, and if so. I get a bottle of dandruff cure and use accord- j ihg to directions, and I am sure yen will be j pleased with the results. Of course yon must ksep the scalp clean, shampooing it with a good snap as often as necessary. Oily hair needs shampooing mnch oftener than if it in 1 dry. I hope boh the hair and complexion n Ay very soon show signs of improvement. Dear Miss Brooks : I am a constant reader of your little corner corn-er and have found it very Interesting. Beinc a young g;rl. I have many (mentions to ask. so plea- help me. Mis Brooks. 1st. Is it proper for a girl to call a boy up on the telephone? 2nd. Will you please Ml me how to introduce a man to a woman? 8rd. Do you know how to decorate the home for a wedding? 4th. What is the correct way to eat com on the cob in a public din'ng room 7 6th. Is It correct for a woman to wear a hat in a restaurant or hotel din ng room in the evening? th. Is It proper for a girl to spend the evening on Sunday night after meetrng with a boy at his home, if they are mgaged? Thanking you in advance. 1 am, PEGGY. Idaho. ' Well, my dear, you DID have a few questions ques-tions didn't yon 7 .To begin with No. 1: It all depends. However, there are not vry 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 hU employer. It would be all right to call him at his home occasionally If yen felt It nccMMiery. bat do not do a so many girls do, and run him to death with calls, as ho mthi get the Idea that you were running after Mm and yon know If he has a 'phone It Is just as easy for him to call you if lie wants to talk to you. and then you will KNOW he wants to hear from jtu 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?" And that's that. 2nd You only need say, "Mrs. Brown, let me present Mr. Smith." This form Is corrrct on almost any ocrosion. I)o not say "Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Smith." as thin form Is awkward and no longer oned. A n-other n-other form is. "It gives me much pleanure to prfent Mr. Smith to you, Mrs. Drown;" cr "This Is Mr. Smith. Mrs. Ilrown. I would like to hsve you know him." No. 3. A nice way to decorate the home for a wrd-Hlng wrd-Hlng If yu have a large room on the parlrr floor that you can ufo. Is to make a nort of chape by making a bower at one rnd wm h flowers and measuring oft an aUle npnce with white rlhbona. Of course It la much acco'd-Ing acco'd-Ing to Ihe up nee you hava lo une. and ho it large a wedding it U to b. If yon hsve a man trip (ere, you could hank It wilh flowers and let the wedding parly stand In front of It. One ran une onn'i own Individual Is- te In arranging these thing and make a very beautiful room by using as many ilowers as possible. Roses are always beautiful to nee and If It U to be l June wedding, that ! the month of roses, you know. 4th. .The-same .The-same rule for eating corn off the cob would aoply In a public dining place n t home. If no corn holders are served, simply take-the take-the corn in the fingers and eat It as unobtrusively unob-trusively as possible. Often corn holders r served. 5th. In a public restaurant or hotel, when dining in the evening. It L correct t either wear a costume with a hot, or to appear ap-pear in evening dress without a hat. 8th. Yea, it Is quite proper for girl 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 yon joy. Dear Miss Brooks : I am In much trouble. There are thre qutions I would like to ask you. (a) There la a certain boy in this town that said he loved me and wanted an answer. I loved him but did not like to tell him. so what would you do in that ease? (b If you wanted to be friendly with a boy how wouloT you go at it? Would you hang around him. or what would you do 7 (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 came up and as soon as he came I went home, but I would have liked very much to hav i stayed only I did not want him to trurJic I that I went there because he came. Woul I it have been better if I had stayed ana 4 talked to him? Thanking you in advance. ' TROUBLED, Drigqrs, Idaho. Dear tittle troubled girl: .(a). Let us sincerely sin-cerely hope you will never have any greater great-er trouble?. Now if I only knew how ol yon are I could give you better advice. Do you think vou are old enough to know the meaning of the word "lore?" Don't yoa really think that what yon mean Is that you like this boy friend Just a little better than some of the others perhaps? (b) To gain anyone's friendship, just be yur own natural unafTeeted self and be pleasant and agreeable. NO, never "hang around" a boy. They abhor that. (c) Well, I wonder why you thoucht you should go home as soon as 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 bashfulness. |