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Show l jy This is vour corner. Make use of it for your information on quts,ionj l Llintr vou It will be my pleasure and privilege to answer care, r fj arPU"omptly all questions submitted to me. Your full name Ma diss mus accompany each. letter sent For specia 1 information send stamped envelope. All communications will always be held in absolute con- fldenA!l letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and 'mk ,0 H.l. Rrooks. Box 1545, Salt Lake C.ty. 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 go to a certain place and meet a boy friend wh.le she fs there, when she gets back home is she supposed to write to him first . V) Suppose you know a boy friend for a long time ard while y s " a certain town go and see him and then after you return home is the gir-supposed gir-supposed to write first? Hoping you will understand me, I remain as ever, a friend, , j ' (1) You should have had an understanding under-standing if the young man asked you to correspond with him, that he should write first, as this would have been more proper. In either case you refer to, it would not be 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 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) js . 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 hornet 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, Tit Thanks, my dear. (1) No, it is not a fact that boys and girls' are better looking at one age than another. (2) I would not cciit tlio ai-Hplp mpTifionpH was an ab solute cure for eczema, but if you will send your name and stamped 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 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 have been unable to get a line up on Florence Vidor as to whether she is married or not. She is twenty-seven years of 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 would 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. Is 1 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 words very much and would like to have 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 doeA not: guarantee a cure for dandruff, n 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 nam 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 are two interested and very inquisitive girls, and many questions which we 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 and a good time, while the girl who doesn't allow those privileges sits in the corner and is never looked at, no matter how she tries to be sociable. j.uu nave saia in previous answers that a boy doesn't reallv respect a girl who allows him privileges; but why doesn t he show hip respect for a modest mod-est girl by showing her a good time? We hope you will be able to answer this complex question without much bother. BILL and BOB, Utah. ou arrived and are welcome. Heaven deliver 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 does not respect the irl who allows him these privileges, and while this Bort may seem scarce now, it rests with you girls who have been trained properly and who consider your girlhood girl-hood a pure, sacred thing, which vou alone can keep undcfiled and pure from contamination with the riff-raff who insults you bj demanding such liberties and privileges, to so conduct yourselves that more boys may be j brought to understand they have no right to think of offering such insults. ,tr-aIe such hoyz' Eirls, and vou will find them, for like begets like I nnd yu are entitled t a "good time-" Dear Miss Brooks: but you would not call it a good time would you, if you had to submit to sach 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 in-crease. in-crease. Dear Miss Brooks: We are very much interested in ycw corner, and wish to ask a few 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 mothe-'s advice all the time? (3.) Wouldn't it be well for a light complexioned girl to marry a light complexioned boy? (4) Is it proper for a boy to give, a girl a very expensive birthday pres. ent? Thanking you for the trouble, PEGG and TOOTS, Wasatch, Ct (1) Yes, girls, quite too young to marry- You should only be begin, ning to go with the boys. (2) Yout mother, my dears, usually has more interest in you than any one else in the world, and is not apt to advise you wrongly. She is supposed to bt her own "boss" in a lawful sense at that age. (3)1 scarcely think the complexion com-plexion has a great deal to do with whether or not a happy marriage will result. (4) No, you Should not ac-cept 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 little 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 vou care a great deal foi 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. . Pleas-e 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 milei 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 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 daess'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. Pleas tell me what to do. Thanking you very much, I am a simple young lady living in Utah. You cannot afford to give your low unbidden, my dear. You admit yon care for him and also say you think he knows it, then later you say M doesn't think you care for him. Deane, if a man loves you he will tell yo about it; he just can't help it, and is his privilege to do so not you" to tell him. You have a right to have other friends if you are not engaged en-gaged to this one, and if he lotto vou he would be very careful not w believe anything he was not sure oi If he received your letter he shouM have been gentleman enough to an r,-,ver it. regardless of misunderstandings. misunderstand-ings. Perhaps he did not receive , In that case, you might write him . note telling him you are going awaj, , He seems to be a worthy young m and as such, should be shown ew courtesy, but not to the ertent sacrificing vour dignity. I do s. pathize with you, and I am sure i affair will work out in a way w is best for you. |