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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 carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. Your full name and address must accompany each letter sent. For special information send , stamped envelope. All communications will always be held in absolute confidence. con-fidence. ' . . , All letters should be addressed very plainly . in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. ; 1. .. Dear Miss Brooks: . I have been very interested In your corner and thought I would have you answer some questions for me. . (1) If a girl should so to a certain place and meet a boy friend while she is there, when she gets back home is she 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 see him and then after you return home is the girl supposed to write first? Hoping you will understand me, I remain, as ever, a friend. PEGGY. Dear Miss Brooks: , ; but you would not call it a good time, would you, if you had to submit to s-uch treatment just to go places with . this class of boys? All hail to you girls! May success and happiness attend you, and may your tribe increase. in-crease. " ' Dear Miss Brooks: We are very much interested in yen? corner, and wish to ask a few questions: ques-tions: (1) Is a girl at seventeen too young to marry? (2) Should a girl at eighteen be her own boss, or should she take her mother's advice all the time? (3.) Wouldn't it be well for a light complexioncd girl to marry a light complexioned boy? (4) Is it 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 be beginning begin-ning to go with the boys. (2) Your mother, my dears, usually has mote interest in you than any one else in the world, and is not apt to advise you wrongly She is supposed to be her own "boss" in a lawful sense at that age. (3) I scarcely think tho complexion com-plexion has a great deal to do with whether or not a happy marriage will result. (4) No, you should not accept ac-cept an expensive gift from a mere friend. . Dear Miss Brooks: I want to ask you a question or two, which I know you are capable of answering. an-swering. I have been reading every week your lifHe corner in the paper. And now I am sure you answer questions, ques-tions, using good judgment, so hers I'll bother you for a little advice. It's just a little misunderstanding between my fellow and myself. You have said "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 he will not coax any girl. Nor he won't bother a girl that doesn't care for him. Please sympathize sympa-thize with me. He has heard I have another fellow, and that I like this other fellow better 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 about what he had heard I wrote him a letter, inviting him over to a dance. He neither answered the letter nor came to the dance. I am going away to school within the next two weeks. I would surely like to see him before leaving. But I don't like to write to him again when he didn't answer the last letter I wrote him. Now please -tell me what you think would be best to do. He is a real nice fellow. He i doesn't smoke, he hasn't any bad habits, hab-its, and has always treated me as well as a girl could expect But he just doesn't think I like 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. He got an awkward misunderstanding through some unknown party. Please tell me what to do. Thanking you very much, I am a simple young lady living in Utah. You cannot afford to give your love unbidden, my dear. You admit you care for him and also say you think he knows it, then later you say he doesn't think you care for him. Dearie, if a man loves you he will tell you 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 to (1) You should have had an under, standing if the young man asked you to eorrespond with him, that he should write first, as this would have been more proper. In either case ou refer to, it would not be improper for you to write a short letter letting them know you had arrayed home. Dear Miss Brooks: I am very interested in your corner and wish you everlasting success. I have a question or two. Is it a fact that girls and boys are better looking at eighteen to twenty than they are at fourteen to sixteen years of age? (2) Jjl 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 are not very well acquainted with, should you have a chaperon? (4) Is Florence Vidor, an actress in the movies, a married woman? (5) What is the best way to leave your hair at night when it is curly so it will not break off? (6) When a boy asks to bring you home 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 ia not a fact that boys and girls1 are better looking at one age than another. (2) I would not say the article mentioned was an absolute ab-solute cure 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 at-" tend any public affair without a chap-erone chap-erone and when you take this precaution pre-caution you can 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 havs been unable to get a line up on Florence Vidor as to whether she is married or not She is twenty-seven years o age, her home address is 1719 Selma Ave-, Los Angeles, Calif., and her studio address is- 6642 South Monica Mo-nica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., so you may write to her, if you wish. (5) I wsuld advise wearing a cap which fits the head snagly to keep your hair in order. (6) I think you could use your own judgment in accepting or refusing the boy's offer to bring you home. Dear Miss Brooks: I am very interested in your corner ;Between You and Me," and would like to ask a question. I3 good for dandruff? Is it a sure cure ? In your last answers I found the words for the songs "Sweet Adeline" and "Memories." I like the word very much and would like to have the music. I would like to play them on the piano. Thanking you very much-May much-May I come again? KITTY, Utah. The tonic you mention does not guarantee a cure for dandruff. If you send your name and stamped envelope, I will send you the 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. have other friends if you are not engaged en-gaged to this one. and "if he loved you he would be very careful not to believe anything he was not sure of. If he received your letter he should have been gentleman enough to an-atfer an-atfer it. regardless of misunderstandings. misunderstand-ings. Perhaps he did not receive it In that case, you might write him a note telling him you are going away. He seems to be a worthy young man, and ns such, should be shown every courtesy, but not to the 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. Dearest Helen: Hail our approach! We hope we reach yon successfully for this is our first journey to yuur ctrner. We are two intsrested aid very iaquisitive g:l, and any questions which vu 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 tho girl who seems to be popular," always having a fellow and a good time, while the girl who doesn't allow those privileges sits in the corner and is rever looked at, no matter how she tries to be sociable, lou have s-aid in previous answers that a boy doesn't really respect a girl who allows him privileges; but why docsm't h show his respect for a modest mod-est girl by showing her a good time? YVe hope you will be able to answer this complex question without much bother. BILL and B03, Utah, lou arrived and are wel-oine. Heaven d( liver us (and you) from popularity gained in this manner. Bill and Bob, don't you say so? I reiterate that the right sort of boy docs not respect the t'i-l who allows him these privileges, and whMe this! sort may seem scarce n-nv, it rests! with you girl who have bren trained! properly and who consider your girl-1 hood a pure, sacred thing, which youi llona can keep und'filcd and pur from contamination with ;.h' riiT-ra!" who insults you b denanding such iiK-rfi.'s ami privil.--gej, t ?o conduct' voursi Ives that more Inys may be rought to understand they have no Vnt to think of offering such insuUs. Vro are such boys, girls, and you !! find th-m, ft,r like bejets like. ...J you are entitled to a "good time '- |