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Show Dear Reader: This is your corner. 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 the 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 154o, Salt Lake City, Utah. SONGS RECEIVED The following- songs and poems have been received during the past week, and I wish to thank each one for their kindness in contributing them: On the Banks of the Brandewine. Taps. Kiss Me Again. Bird With the Broken Pinion. Sunshine of Paradise Alley. Mother o' Mine. My Old New Hampshire Home. Long, Long1 Ago. The Cottage by the Sea. California and You. SONGS REQUESTED These song-s and poems are on the requested and To-Be-Found list: Mammy o' Mine. Flower of Araby. When You're Gone I'll Not Forget. (Answer to When I'm Gone You'll Soon Forget.) Through the Night, i I Wish I Knew. Don't Turn My Picture to the Wall. We're Just Plain Folks. In the Harbor of Home Sweet Home. Prease, Mamma, Prease Kiss Me Dood-night. How Much for a Bachelor? I've a Longing in My Heart for You, Louise. Ole Olson. Through an oversight, when I asked last week for the song, "A Little Child Shall Lead Them," I neglected to state that this was a different one from the one I had asked for before. The first line of the one my reader wishes now, is as follows: Title, "A Little Child ShaW Lead: Them;" First line: "It was one bitter night in winter, the wind blew fierce and cold." Songs have been received with only the following signatures attached, and I take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation for the interest taken in the readers' requests for songs. Thank you. A Reader, Glenns Ferry, Ida.; Mrs. E. B. F., Wolf hale, Ariz.; X. Y. Z Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. C. M. L., Salt Lake City; An Interested Reader, Monticello, Ut.; Dixie, St. George, Ut. Dear Miss Brooks: We have been reading your corner and thought we'd like to join and ask you a few questions: (1) Is it proper to ask your friend back to your house after being out car riding in the afternoon, after-noon, for the first time? What would you do to a person if he was jealous of you? (3) In what way can you win a fellow's heart? We remain as ever your friends, TWO LITTLE STARS. Myton, Ut. Always glad to welcome new questioners, ques-tioners, Little Stars. (1) It is quite proper to invite your friends into your home. It is always proper to be gracious gra-cious and hospitable, and make all your friends feel welcome to come to your home any time they wish. There is scarcelyanything which will make and hold friends so effectively as this atmosphere at-mosphere of hospitality pervading the home. (2) I do not imagine I would do much of any thing-, dear girls, except ex-cept leave him pretty much alone. Jealousy is a form of selfishness which should not be tolerated. (3) There are ways and ways, girls, and 1 advise that you follow your own sweet way. If this does not affect the one you have In mind, try it on another boy, who perhaps per-haps has a more susceptible heart. Dear Miss Brooks: This is my first attempt to write to you but hope I am welcome. (1) How tall and how much should a girl weigh that is 16 years old? (2) If a boy tells a girl to write to him and gives her his address, and the girl writes and he answers, would you advise the girl to write again? Wishing you luck and Buccess in your work. BROWN EYES, Idaho. You are welcome and hope you come again. (1) The average height of a girl of sixteen is about C2 inches and the weight is 112 pounds. (1) You should have told the young man you would answer his letter after he had first written to you, but as you have already written to him first, and he has answered, let it go at that, and write again if you wish to do so and he haB expressed a desire for you to. Thanks, Brown Eyes. Dear Helen: Would you please help a stranger as you have helped many others. I am 23. She is 16. I love her and she loves me. Are we too young to get married? I never knew another girl that I even cared for, but my heart has found the girl of my dreams now. I haven't proposed it to her, but she is so different that I'm afraid if I wait she will want some one else more her; own age, better educated and with more money and one who dances. I've nver been to high school. She is a sophomore. If we do marry I intend! to put her clear through school. I have! almost paid for a pretty home which I know she will like. I don't want her for her money because she hasn't any. I know I am respected and I can obtain a recommend. Please tell me what to do. Yours enviously, TROUBLED, Ut. I And so you think you have found the j girl of girls! And you ask me If you1 I are old enough to marry. This would j be a difficult question for me to de-ctde de-ctde fjr you. However. I have your ! letter to judge you by, and I am in- dined to think you nrc old enough, but the sweetheart! Sixteen Is very young for a girl to know her own heart, and for your own sake as well an hern, I would advise that you let her know how dearly you love her, but be content con-tent with" this for about two more years. Would it not be much better to have her find some one she might love better brfore you marry her than afterward? af-terward? You can afford to wait, as you will be but twenty-five then and in those two years the little home nest can be made cozier still, and if the love you think yours now should turn out to belong to another, you have been saved the greater pain at least, because to know her to be unhappy with you or seek happiness with another after the marriage vows, would indeed be the greater pain, would it not? Your love seems true blue, and your plans for your little sweetheart sound wonderfully wonder-fully unselfish, but as I see It, my advice ad-vice would be to just wait a little while at least. What do you think? Can you see it this way now? I shall ba very glad to hear from you again after you have thought it over, may 1? Dear Miss Brooks: Here comes another "Questioner. I guess you won't mind if I ask you two questions that I think important. I certainly enjoy reading "Between You and Me." (1) What makes a person's per-son's mouth so dry that they can hardly hard-ly speak when they are talking or reading before an audience? (2) What Is a becoming way for a girl of fourteen four-teen years to comb or do her hair when it is not yet to the shoulders after it has been bobbed, and what should be done with the split ends or the "knobs" on the end of it? Wishing you happiness happi-ness and success, I remain, yours. "STENOG," Montpelier. Ida. Awfully sorry, Questioner, but your answers were sent to the name you enclosed en-closed in your letter, and are now returned re-turned to me marked "unknown," hence this delay. You are welcome I assure you, and I thank you for liking my corner, and for your good wishes. (1) There are several reasons for the mouth becoming dry when one is talking talk-ing or reading before an audience. First, it is partly due to nervousness and "stage fright." Then, the mouth being open so much, the glands are exposed ex-posed to the air, and this quickly dries up some of the moisturo. Nervousness and fear Interfere with the glands discharging dis-charging as much moisture as they otherwise would. If you will hold your mouth open a little bit, you will notice how quickly it becomes dry, and people who sleep with their mouth open find it absolutely dry when they waken. People who are accustomed to speaking speak-ing and feel no timidity, generally have a pitcher of water on the stage when they are making a tnlk of any length, as no doubt you have not iced. (2) It is quite a problem to know what to do with bobbed hair when it begins to grow out. However, if you are at all clever In doing up your hair, I think if you will tie It in the back, having first curled it, and then arrange the short curls across the back pinning them in place, that you will find this rather a nice way to do it. Or, if you cannot make the pins stay in in this way, weave your ribbon in and out nnd arrange the hair so it can be pinned above and below be-low it. If your hair is too short to do this nicely, about the only thing you can do is to have your cut hair made into a National Bob, or curls. To got rid of the split ends, the best way is to have it singed carefully. This is my first entrance into your corner. I have enjoyed the information from your little corner and now I hop I am welcome. u ) What should yuu say to a person when you rof uao to dance with him? (2) And what is the proper thing to say to your part ner after the dance? Wishing you success in the future, I remain, BASHFUL PUG NOSE. Myton, Ut. You nre welcome, girlie. ( 1 ) You should not refuse to dance with a hoy unless you have a very good reason. If it is a public dance you should not dance with a young man unless he hai been properly introduced by a mutual friend and it is not then proper to refuse re-fuse to accept his invitation to dance. If it is an invitation affair it would bo Improper to refuse to dance with anyone any-one present. Of course In every case) i If you are III or too tired to dance, this is sufficient excuse and you may any, "thank you so much, but I am bo very tired, I feel that I cannot dance thlH one (2) In accepting a young man's Invitation Invita-tion to dance you may say "Thank you, I will be delighted to dance this with you," or something similar. Your acquaintances ac-quaintances vary so much In dispositions disposi-tions and manner, thAt you cannot well use a set phrase in these things, vary them to BUlt the Individual. It in customary for your partner to thank you when the dance Is ended and you may answer by saying "Oh, I enjoyed the dance very much Indeed," etc., etc., varying It also to fit the occasion ami individual. Only two uuostlons me allowed al-lowed one person at a time, dear. Dear Miss Brooks: I wonder If you could and would locate lo-cate the following songs for me? The first Is "The Outlaw," and the beginning begin-ning lines go: "A rider stood at the lamp lit bar, j Tugging the knot of his neck scarf ; loose, ! While someone sang to th1 silver st rings In the moon I ight pat lo.'" The other I do not know the name of but It starts like tills: "The Kidln' Kid from I'owd.-r River. Ain't got no lungs nnr nary liver Koine says it was a blue cayuse." etr. Thanking you In advance. Sincerely yours, ALICE. Ft. Hrldger. Wyo. I sincerely hope Homo one of my readers will have thene songs fur you, Alice, and If so, I will forward them t y you in your envelope. |