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Show Dear Reader: This is your corher. 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 seif-addressed, stamped envelope accompanies the request. Questions are limited to two. Full name and address must accompany ach 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 nanie f 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 Ilelen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Utah. SONGS REQUESTED ! These songrs and poems are on the requested and To-Be-Found list: j Poem: When Ma Rogers Breaks Loose. Children's Rhyme: Near to a town in a cottage small Lived Rip Van Winkle, known to all. Bongs: "Love Me and the World is Mine." "In the Evening by the Moonlight. One cold winter night, as Mary came wandering home, etc. Then stick to your farming You'll suffer no loss. For the stone that keeps rolling Won't gather no moss. Mr. T. F. B., Boise. Idaho. Perhaps rou forgot to enclose the envelope R-hich you in tended to in your letter; at least I did not find one. I have one of your songs and as another one is a very old one, am sure I will have it soon. The remaining one can be had ; in the shops. Doubtless you could ob- I tain it in your home town. If you j will send envelope with street address will gladly send the songs I have for you. Dear Miss Brooks: I thought I would ask you a few questions. (1) What grade should I be tn if I started to school when I was 1 seven years old ? (2) How old should you be to take vocal lessons? I am thinking of taking singing lessons. From your friend. i? kaals, iaano. i And you did not notice that you were limited to two questions, did you, dear?: Tour first question has been answered so j many times in my column I am sure if J you will, you can find it easilv. (1) Ordinarily a child makes one grade a j year, Frances, so if you started when you were 7 years old you should be in the ninth grade, or second year junior j high. To your third and fourth ques-j tions I can but answer that I believe you are both too young to know what 1 love is or to be thinking of marriage 1 at all. (2) One can begin training the j Toice at a very early age. It would be , very splendid if you could begin cultivating cul-tivating your voice now. Dear Miss Brooks: We have been silent readers of your column and have enjoyed it immensely. We would like to have you answer the following questions: (1) How can & conversation be started with a fellow ; you have just been introduced to? (2) What is the lucky and unlucky day of a person born on October 13th? (3) What causes a shiny nose and how can i you prevent this? (4) If you are real short and want to look tall what can you do? (n) What Is the best way to curl bobbed hair that is growing out? Thanking you in advance we remain. ; truly yours. j TRIXY. TERRY and JERRY, Utah. I hope others will enjoy your questions ques-tions and the answers also, girls. This is too serinus a question for me to give advice on I fear. Suppose I should make the mistake of advising you to use the old reliable 'This is very disagreeable dis-agreeable weather we are having, isn't It, Mr. Pneu?" when the young man you had just met was one of the "nnuemon-lacs" "nnuemon-lacs" (whatever that is) type! This innocent inno-cent remark mis'ht remind him of an at- ; tack he had had of the above (?) and so give him a disagreeable impression of r you, ruining what might otherwise have developed into a delightful friend-, ship; and airain were I to suggest that you start conversation by something like "Isn't the song 'Yes, We Have Xo Ban ana 3.' the darl Ingest and cleverest thing ever, Mr. Strong," and the young man should happen to be one of the sober, serious types, ft might cause him to get the wrong impression and think you were of a frivolous nature causing him to lose interest in you. There is everythfng in first impressions you know, girls, so I advise that you can ' more safely trust time. plae. and boy to inspire topic than me. and I am sure you agree with me, now. (2) All the Information I can give you on this Is that for one born in October. Friday fa said to be a lucky day. (.1) A too oily skin ofren causes a shiny none. Bathe K gently with wifch hazel and do not use soap and water for cleansing purposes, pur-poses, substituting a cleansing cream Instead. If you will then use a good powder bopp cream I am sure you will have no frrther trouble. (4) The long, straight line dress, with pleated panels from above waisMine. or anv trimming effect from the shoulder straight to the hem will give height to the figure. Let the waist line be rather low. Dressing the hp ir h i gh on the h end has a ten - dency to add to the height, and the longer sMrt is alno a friend to the short girl (Ti) Wax pair is a splendid medium f t curling the hair if you refer . to this, and if you refer to a style. I sucgest that you do not comb the curl; "through to the end. but let the ends curl under and place a net over the loos- j enrl curl. tucking r'l s'rav ends j neatly under a net. j"m sorrv. girls., but I cannot comply with your sixth1 request as T have d is-on i n u'-d this, part of mv servh-e one reas- r. b"ing the demand far exceeded the sunjtly of the : pp rt !:i r spfH-'s yo-i d-ire. It In hnrd to turn n denf ear to vonr plea.; but I am powerless to provide this , "kir-k." A FfMTNP. T'tah. T' Is should not' be diffi'-"l - eaue yon dlstr-is. S-p- i pose. In fn''T to add to the Hallo- j Wfcncsi f t e ocealon vou t V p a 1 menu. r-'irr-!st I ng of ind V.'ftrhe. (nut bread ard butter, nri'l peanut hu'tr or' cold mea t pa n d w r 1 ) : Krl'-d Hut t er-flle er-flle (potato eMps) ; Klf'n Vrin. 'small . C ne u n, her pi' V Ie: ) : ( n ' u j e r's C-t r-s. ( m:i 1 1 raW-fl v,-l'ii r tgns of Z'd lae f-; wn on t h'-rn wl' h org yolk ) ; Itla'-k j "'( Tie v: ire (fnffff or eof-.a ) ; Pump- I kin Ta I n' v. ora n ge h-e rren m. served ' In oral if" -iMs w I'll cut out faroH.) Of j rours vou n male i-nfT'T- or oh oro -( i : over a honflro It will make a vary ( n fo rim I t (Ta 1 r out nf it, fi t t b e na m time br1n"'ng everv one Into Mio Kplrltj of rorn-adhlp. If instead of the kbov, you sboi 'l faki buftew-d bread or rolls' und vli'-od baoon. Inttlng p.t-Ii oru broil thrlr o-.vn bneon, hvinr potato rMpft. ' xtfU)i- and lives In a n n v :i I n t. pl,v close at hand. Afterward you could toast marshmallows and pop corn. As space will not permit the printing of many games my suggestion must be limited along this line. Blindfold each one In turn and place 7 lighted candles rather close together. Take the person per-son a short distance away, turn him around a few times and tell him to go and blow the candles out. The number left burning is the number of vears before be-fore he marries. For another "stunt" suspend a stick about 3 feet long from the ceiling and on one end fasten an apple and to the other end a small cheesecloth bag of flour. Twirl the stick around and each one then tries in turn to bite the apple. This will create much amusement. Dear Miss Brooks: I have two questions I would like to ask: (1) Would a person spend more time In doing a certain thing, than they would if they were just dreaming of j doing it? (2) Could any one hold their breath as long, if they were using their energy (such as swimming under water) as they could if they were not using their energy? Thanking you In advance, I remain INQUISITIVE. Utah's Dixie. (1 ) In most instances, yes. Persons have been known to dream In one fleeting moment a series of events which might cover hours, days, weeks or even longer periods of time If they really happened. (2) Xo. they could not. Phvsieal exertion increases the circulation which Is governed by the heart, and as the number of respirations respira-tions is in fairly definite proportion to the number of heart beats you can readily see that if one exerting themselves or using their energy their respirations would necessarily be more often than if they were perfectly quiet or passive. Dear Friend: 1 I am writing to you tu raut a song which I desire, hoping o" c-n help me out, or if not perhaps sop1 -ft.der can. I think the title is "Common Bill" -nd here are a few lines: "I will tell you of a fellow. t a fallow I have seen ; He Is neither red nr yellow, but he's altogether green. And his name it isn't charming, only Just the common Bill. And he wishes me to marry, but I hardly hard-ly think I will." The next verse ends with. "And I've tho't the matter over, and I guess I'll marry Bill." Thanking you in advance. I remain your well wisher. MRS. L. M, Utah. I am letting your letter speak for itself, Mrs. L. M., hoping It may brine your song to you. I have added some to it as you will see. but cannot suppl" the complete song. The name you give has no special meaning. Dea r Mi ss Brooks: We three are constant readers of "Between You and Me.' and we have four questions to ask. (1) How old are the following movie stars? FannieWard Wallace McDonald. Marion Davies. Eleanor Boardman. Harrison Ford. Walter McOrail and Bert Lytell? (2) Ts Vivian Martin still in the movies (3) Who Is considered the handsomest man and the mest beautiful woman on the screen? (-1) Who is. in your opinion? opin-ion? We thank you verv much. THK RED HEADED LEAGUE. Utah. (1) Not all actors or actresses of the stage or screen give their age but I will do the best I can for you. Fannie Ward is 4. Marion Davies 24. Harrison Ford 30. Walter MeQrail 34 and Bert Lytell 3?. (2) Vivian Martin has not deserted the screen, but is not making a picture just at the present writing. (3) This is a question impossible for me to answer, I am afraid, there Is such a diversity of opinion, and there are so many truly beautiful girls and women in fllmdom, and so many handsome men. There are those who admire the daintv, fairy-like loveliness of Claire Windsor. Pauline Oaron. Lillian Oish. Wanda Hawley, and others, while many worship wor-ship such dashing and exotic beauties as Barbara La Marr. O lor I a Swan son. Betty Blythe and Nita Naldi: and there are still a great manv others who greatly great-ly arlmire snnh stately and aristocratic beauties as Elsie Ferguson. Norma Tal-madge. Tal-madge. Elaine Hammersteln. pohe Daniels and Mary Pickford. And the men! When there are so manv handsome hand-some men on the screen, like Thomas MMgbn n. J. Warren Kerrigan. PJ chard ch-ard P.arthelmess. Richard Dix, Ramon Navarro, Antonio Moreno. Malcolm Macflregor and. oh yes. Vn lent I no. all of whom have been proclaimed many times by many people the "handsomest man on the sereen, how on. anyone decide definitely? As for me I have never yet been able to reach this decision de-cision as each picture seems to pre-sent pre-sent the various ones as even more beautiful and fascinating than the previous pre-vious one did. Dear Miss Brooks: T am writing to you for the first time, and would like very much for you to answer my nuetions. (1) Do you think It Is right for me to go out with girls or hovs? (2) Do you think It Is right for me to rl a n e with hovs or girls T have never met ? f3 ) Can you guess mv nge hv mv writing? Can vou guess which I am. boy or girl? From You certalnlv have me down as a cui'iKT, haven't you. dear, or 1 wonder If I should sav "sir" or "bov," About the only thing I am quite sure of about vour let t er Is that you should nraet Ire up on your writing, punc? nation. 00 m-pos'Mon. m-pos'Mon. arithmetic, rtc, I'd ,1ust go with wh leh ever I want ei to boys or i'i rl s. S'a me In re fore nee to dancing. Vonr eg" about 7 orS.and of the masculine mascu-line gnrub-r. How's that for guessing, my "ear sir? Tiear Ml" Brooks: j ' vou p lease tell me the name of !fie b-iyt tle Indian papooo H held In? Fiespo'-f fullv. RT'TH. Utah. I Th'- IndlanH call the rradb or basket i n w h b'b they rnrrv t ho pa pnos n n j "flck enr' y u n," Thank vou vrv verv 'much for the song vou "nt, I wish I might return t ho favor hv so nd in a Mho one you request, but ns It. can bn I '-ad In the l ops I am unable to. Dear Misa Brooks: This is the first I hav written to f a (1) What should you say to a boy when he asked you if you would go with him and he said he loved you? When a boy asked you to go with him, what should you say to him? I have been out with every boy In this town also in other towns. When I started golny out with boys I was ten years old. Was I too young! I have been going with them for five years. (3) If a girl goes with one boy for quite a while and then goes with another boy, how can she Keep this boy from getting mad at her? (4) Does cutting the hair make it thick, and if one has thick hair how can you make it thin? Hope you wlH answer these questions for me. From BERT, Utah. Let us hope It will not be the last time, my dear. (1) Am I to understand that he asked you to go with him and said he loved you at one and the same time? I never had just such an experience, exper-ience, and I can understand how It would be rather disconcerting. I rather think I'd tell him in as indifferent a manner as possible that I'd accept the front part of his proposal and go with him once anyway, but gracefully ignore ig-nore the rest of his rather hurried declaration, dec-laration, secretly assuring myself I would hear more of it later. (2 I could not hope to improve on your style of accepting invitations, since you have been invited, and accepted invitations from all the boys in your towy? ana started in on the surrounding towns. My dear, I did not start accepting invitations in-vitations to go out with boys at ten years of age. and I would not have been allowed to do so even had I wished, nor have I known manv who have, so I am going to revert this question ques-tion back to you by asking you the same thing. Were you too young? Would you advise others to do the same, and would you do It over again if you could turn back the years and be a child of ten again? (3) Tou have asked more than the limit of questions, dear, but I would truly like to help you if I could. A girl has every right to go with as many boys as she wishes to, so long as she holds her heart intact and is unpromlsed to any one boy. The boy has no right to be offended, and he should forfeit your friendship by doing do-ing so. (4) Cutting the hair is thought to make it thicker and cause it to grow more evenly. Tou can not well mak your hair thinner, dear child, without treating it so poorly that It thins, itself by coming out. Dear Miss Brooks: May I ask for a poem? I believe It is called "If We Knew." 1 know only a few lines, as follows: "If we knew the cares and trials that surround each sther's life-Could life-Could see the naked heart and spirit Knew what spur the action give. Would the grim exterior roughness seem, I wonder, just the same? Would we help where now we hinder? Would we pity where we blame? There are several verses; I had It once and lost It In a fire I have often wished I had memorized It. Thanking you in advance and wishing you a world of success, sincerely. LILLIAN. Idaho. Tes, this Is the tlle of the poem you wish and the author is anonymous. I am unable to find the poem in Its entirety en-tirety and while I continue my search I am printing your request together with what you remember of the Doem. hoping some one of my renders can supply the missing parts. I thank you most sincerely for the song you sent In, also for your generous good wishes. Dear Miss Brooks: I have been watch'ng your corner for a long time so I thought I would try it. I am 13 years of age and 50 Inches tall. How tall should I be? How much should I weigh? Hoping to hear from you soon, SHIRTY, Utah Are you very sure you have measured meas-ured yourself correctly. Phortv? The average height for a girl of 13 Is inches and the average weight for that age is S3 pounds. |