Show and 0 f A dear reader header this is your cor comer lier all questions submitted will be cheerfully and carefully answered except those seeking medical advice names and addresses of business firms cannot be printed here but win will be sent if a self addressed stamped envelope accompanies the request questions ar are e 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 tho the name imme 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 lake city utah SONGS REQUESTED these songs and poems are on the th requested and to ne be found list the lonesome when you lett left the red river valley yankee boys im pining fining away for you I 1 wonder chos her now my wild days are over america I 1 love you little old log cabin in the lane dye bye and bye you will forget M me do they think of me ble at home FIRST LINES jack to me youve always been so kind and true and you know ive ever been faithful to you SONGS RECEIVED the following songs and poems have been received during the past week and ibish I 1 wish to thank each one for their kindness in contributing them bring back my daddy to me life ive lett left the snow clad hills when shall we meet again dont make we me go to bed and ill be good T theres heres a rose in old E erin rin dear ar miss brooks it does docs seem as if I 1 have a lot of 0 perplexing problems tor for a girl of my age and I 1 thought you might help me solve some ot of them I 1 am IX IR years ot of age 1 my hair Is my biggest problem it Is extremely fine and re as I 1 have snarled and curled it a great deal during tha he last few years on the sides aides 1 it Is now so short I 1 cannot comb it good food any more in tact fact it Is really too short to wear dutch or bobbed when curled in addition to this it Is quite aln which helped any by its bring so line fine as it would appear more if it were coarse now what I 1 would like to know Is how in the world am I 1 going to comb it without snarling or curling it so that it can have a chance to grow again 2 my hip measurement Is a little larger than it should be in proportion to the rest of my boy body what style dresses should I 1 wear full fail skirts shirts clinging materials or straight one piece dresses I 1 thank you AN ANXIOUS INQUIRER utah no anxious most of the girls find it a very verv perplexing problem what to 10 with their hair especially those who are letting it grow if it will 1 no anxious not any more than most girls from 15 to it 12 do have very serious earlous and perplexing problems to them now it seems imperative that your hat hair get the attention and rest it has so long needed it why not have it a coronet braid made mad e an and I 1 w wear ear this thin over dver your irregular and scara scanty t y tresses until you have coaxed them to grow long and luxuriant again the newer style of plain and severe hair dressing would suit your need at least even it if it were not the most becoming and th then en brush your hair diligently dally daily and massage the scalp dally daily also you have mistreated it so long that you must be patient and coax it back bach to life 2 1 I am inclined to think the a straight freight line one piece model in dress dream would be most moat becoming arid and all the crelier crepes which are very popular and which come in so many weaves and w weights e I 1 a are r splendid dear miss brooks I 1 have been an interested Inte restad reader of your corner for several months I 1 have never written to yea before but hope I 1 am I 1 also have two questions I 1 would like you to answer it if you have time 1 how tall should a girl of sixteen be 2 Is a girl of a sixteen too young to go with her boy friends yours truty truly ISABELLE idaho better late than never you know isabelle 1 the average height of girls of sixteen Is about 62 inches 2 it Is quite proper for girls sixteen yra old to begin to go out with boys dear and now it if you are only beginning to cultivate boy friends let me advise that you choose them very carefully tor for you know you are judged a great deal by the sort of friends vou have and the corn company pany you keep thanks so very much for the sons song dear miss brooks I 1 have never attempted to enter your corner but I 1 find it very interesting may I 1 enter 1 do you think it makes hair thicker to cut it 2 will you please tell me the meaning of carl and norma thanking you in advance I 1 remain CURLY LOCKS of utah welcome curly locks 1 I 1 it Is said that cutting the hair will cause it to come in thicker and make a more even growth but it 11 does not do so in 11 all cases 2 cart carl or karl Is the german form tor for Ci charles marles meaning strong manly norma Is not hintea as having any sp special lal meaning sharks for the song dear dear miss mine brooks I 1 wonder it if you or any of your readers re can help mo me to find a song about a vian w who ho Is out walking and hears it a quarrel el between father and son and wie ae burden of the retrain refrain Is in be sorry that youve served us so go cheing when were both dead my lad best wishes from a FARM WIFE wendell idaho I 1 am sure if any one of my readers snows of a song sone of this description hey will fadly j serial send it in tor for us farm wife va and you shall have it soon thereafter lf ter dear miss brooks we havo have been reading the advice in our little corner tor for some time and wish ish to say we think it just splendid id to have such a help we would like to ask a few questions 1 Is it all right tor for a girl 10 16 to IT to go out of town to a small arnall town dance with a hoy boy she knows known real well 2 what will remove an ov 0 spots from a char meuse mause satin dress areat s thanking you in advance we remain KING ICING TUT and TOOTS P parson thank you girls 1 not unless unless you are tn in a part of young people in which ease case a married couple or older person should be one of the party to at act e as an chaperone merely for the sake 0 of f propriety you know 2 it would ali spend so much on what tiie moe spots were caused from the th color of the dress areas etc that I 1 could not well answer you satisfactorily if they are merely soiled foiled spots sponging with warm water sand and a pure soap neap over a thick pad on the wrong side aide would probably remove thern them dear helen have you room for two wore more quest tio ners we have long been devoted readers of our corner to us it la Is the mot most important feature of our paper we have never written before but hope we are welcome 1 we are 14 years old and quite popular la Is it proper for us to go car riding with fellows 23 and 24 years old it if they act perfectly lovely 2 this la Is a very small town no one ever I 1 has private dances here but there Is a public dance every week we love to dance Is it proper tor for us to so go to public dances unescorted but c chaperoned with the consent of our parents 3 Is it proper tor for us to recel receive letters and answers from boys ot of a va short acquaintance living in a neighboring town hoping this does not wend its way into the wastebasket with oceans ocean of love and a kiss on each wave and loads of success GIGGLES and JAZZ wellsville ut indeed thero there la in room for two more mor 9 questioners 1 and my dear girls it avues vou have been devoted readers of our corner for or so long lone you will have noticed that I 1 do not advise girls of fourteen to go out with young mer men at all car riding or otherwise school work for girls of this age sho should id be occupying most of their time grid and attention if they ever hope 0 to o realize the ambitions which every girl should have anat of becoming Ca capable Dable intelligent and useful members of their community or the niche which they are to nil fill 2 of course it 14 1 better to go to the dance proper properly lv chaperoned than alone if you just must so go dears and if father and T mother 0 ther feel it Is all right personally 1 I v would advise that bour recreation be b different than this 3 an exchange of letters CAN be both interesting and educational garig but see gee to it they are of nt this nature or otherwise they will an only I 1 y be another medium of distracting your thought and attention from bour studies and now you see your letter did not quite reach the waste basket this time you too are so generous girls girl am I 1 especially favored or do you treat everyone alike dear alsi brooks I 1 would like to ask two questions it if 1 I may 1 Is it proper to sit on the r right 1 oi or left bide aide of a young man when eating together 2 1 I have four boy friends who used to live in different places that I 1 have but are now away Is ltD improper It proper roper for me to keep up a correspondence cespon d e nee with them providing it Is just friendly in nature the reason I 1 ask Is because mv mir boy friend here thinks it he exactly object but he Is so rao nice to take me to parties shows dances et etc c that I 1 like to do anything that proper to do yours as before CANARY utah surely you may canary 1 the lady sits on the gent lemans right at the table 2 yes indeed it Is proper girlie and I 1 am very sure when you explain very nicely and frankly frankl y to him that your cor with your b boy 0 y ifa friends ri e linda la is a 0 curtesy aur o u rt tesy es y y you 0 u 0 awo w e the them m f for 0 r having v b been ee n good 0 0 d f friends arte rte n d 3 st and n d pals al 9 in the past lie he will readily understand and feel perfectly all right about it so long as a girt girl Is tree free that Is so I 1 long 0 nar as she Is heart whole and fancy free it Is perfectly proper to lot let her heart wander when and how it ft will and in so doing she Is showing no discourtesy to any one of her attentive friends dear miss brooks I 1 like to read your corner very much I 1 have never written to yoi yell la before I 1 am IS 15 years old and I 1 want to have girl and boy friends how can I 1 have them I 1 am quite bashful how can 1 overcome this I 1 hope you can answer my ques questions tiona thank you sincerely DOLLY utah you know dolly I 1 believe we can accomplish anything it we want to bad enough and try hard enough so 80 now the thing for you to do Is to try very hard to overcome your bashfulness basht ulness and try to be a very bright entertaining little girl so you may attract friends to you in tle tl e first place read a great deal so you will have something inter becomingly and neatly and then go BO forth to conquer go out among the girls and boys of your neighborhood and try lard to be just as interesting as you can be by talking ithem or listening to th the ones who like to talk you will won qoon be surprised how much at ease you ou can feet feel THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS there Is 1 a rose in texas that I 1 am going to see no other darky knows tier her no darky only me she ci led RO when I 1 left her that it nearly broke my heart and it if we ever meet again we never more shall part she Is the sweetest rose of color this darky ever knew her eyes are like the diamonds ond and they sparkle like the dew I 1 aw you may talk about your dearest way may and ailing of roxalee rosalee but the yellow rose koert of texas beats the belles of tennessee tennes bee now im going to see or er for my heart la Is full of woe and well sins sing the songs together we sang so long lone ago well ivell play the banjo gally gaily A and nil well talk our sorrows oer o or t 4 nd the yellow rose of texas shall be mine for evermore dear silas allias brooks bro 0 ke I 1 reading between you and me very cry much may I 1 enter our little orner I 1 have two questions to ask 1 Is walter mcgrale a star in para paramount mount pictures and what plays has las he starred in thanking you I 1 remain SNOWDROP st george georae utah welcome snowdrop 1 no walter mcgrael Is in not a paramount picture star in fact I 1 do not find he be has hag starred in many pictures the breaking point being the only one I 1 am it really sure of 0 lie he plate a opposite diio in this ono one i doar dear miss brooksi have long enjoyed a reading the splendid advice given in your corner but this Is in the first time I 1 have hav ever arl written t ton to you I 1 hope I 1 an am welcome WI wah it you please answer two questions tor for mel m 1 should grapefruit be b eaton eaten with a fork or a spoon 2 what Is I 1 tho the meaning and the correct elation of 0 the name juanita SPANISH LASS idaho always glad to welcome now new comers Joam tta 1 grapefruit Is eaten with a spoon poon 2 juanita does not I 1 find and have any special meaning it Is a pro n bounced u n e as though hough spelled wahneta wah ne ta abc acc accent e n t on the e second syllable Byl lable with the th a long I 1 am very grateful to you for the song and I 1 am sure aure the one who requested it will be also dear miss brooks we are here again for more advia adal please answer these questions for us u 1 what are the latest dance step not the music the steps 2 whitt what Is the latest style for or combing combine hair that bobbed 3 1 I am sixteen years old and 03 inches tall I 1 only weigh ibs how much should I 1 weigh and how tall should I 1 bo be 4 I 1 was born november 15 1106 1906 what planet was I 1 born under 5 whort when you are with a boy and he Is talking ir bad about one of your best pals pala and you try to muke him top stop and he h wont do it how cart can you make him stop without making him angry at you what can you say we W remain yours anxiously TOOTS casper and washington utah 1 variations ot of the fox trot the th catch step and the catch and tap steps are the latest dance steps 2 my dear there are so many nany styles of dressing the hair to suit the individual that I 1 can only say tire the general style now seems to bo be toward a more simple hair dressing the puffing at the sides aides Is very slight the hair Is waved and brought about the face in soft lines bringing it well in front ot of the ears it Is U usually worn either in a soft rots rop or coll coil low in the center of 0 the back or a lony effect low across the back of it the head from ear to ear then ot of course the bang Is much in evidence but it Is becoming to the girl with high forehead only 3 the correct weight eight tor for your ace end and height Is pounds the average height tor for girls IS 16 years old Is 02 62 inches 4 you were wera born under the edgr of scorpio and your governing pernet lk in jupiter 5 my dear girl it if you are with a boy who insists ingists upon speaking ill III of your friends and Is in ungentlemanly enough to persist even after you have asaei him not to do so you should consider he w was not only extremely rude but very disrespectful to you also you yoi are the one who should be offended and should tell tall him so very plainly not fretting about whether it offends or not |