Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-06-29

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Salt Lake City, Utah.
SONGS RECEIVED.
The following songs and poems have
oeen received during the past week.
ana wish to thank each one for their
kindness In contributing them:
Cottage BY the Sea.
Captain links
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet.
Little Boy IN Blue.
There's a Longing in My Heart for
A Dream.
Just Plain Folks.
SONGS REQUESTED
These songs and poems are on the
requested and To-Be-Found list:
The Songs My Mother Used to Sing.
The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee.
Drowsy Head
In the Valley of Kentucky.
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Dear Miss Brooks:
I have never written to you before,
but have always been a reader of the
Between You and Me" corner and
think your answers to questions are a
great help to everyone, so 1 am going
TO ask you a question myself that has
been puzzling me for long time. Why
are you, and not only you but IN fact
all the elder generation so opposed to
petting7 In your answers to questions
you say No! MOI MOI do not let the boys
kiss and hug you, and our folks preach
the same things to US, DO NOT LET
THE BOYS PET YOU" I have always
let the boys pet me ever since 1 have
gone with them, and can not see what
harm few kisses and hugs will do. In
fact I feel sighted If the boys do not
pet me and think they do not like me
well enough. Boys do not care for, or
al least they do not seek the company
- the girls who will not be petted and
they laugh at them and make fun of
them because they are slow" and most
of the girls 7 know think the boys are
slow" If they do not pet them. 1 like
for the boys TO love me up" II there
IS anything makes me feel Xix
screaming it is TO get out with a boy
who Is afraid TO give you a few kisses
or even put his arm around you Most
boys nowadays are termed as swell
lovers, and If they are not swell lovers
the girls avoid them, the same way the
girls who will not pet or be petted are
avoided by the popular boys. 7 know
for l tried being nice" once just to
see how 1t would go, and It didn't work
at all, and any way 1 like TO be petted.
so again I ask the question WHAT Is
THE HARM IN PETTING?
JUST A QUESTIONER, from Idaho.
L am printing the above letter be-
cause l believe /. was written in good
faith and expresses q sentiment which
makes the question involved a vital
one to a great many people and because
II was the original purpose OF this cor
ner (and still Isl to serve its readers
by giving out Information not easily !
obtained otherwise, and not a medium
through which to express my own in
dividual views En0 ideas on various
questions. 1 am now anxious to give
the readers Of this corner an oppor-
unity VI cA TeSSlu5 themselves on THIS 4
particular question l am particularly /
anxious that persons of all ages and .
both men and women, boys and girls,
AXE advantage of this opportunity
As many letters received on this sub
ect as possible will be printed in order
hat the little lady, as well as others
nay read for themselves what others
hing on this most important question
70 you at this time, dear Miss Cues
Toner, I will only say that when I have
-dvised against the practice of prom
scuous petting" l have at the same
1me endesvored in some degree to ex-
lain why 1 did not think II wise. II
-ou feel I could give you any further
easons or advice l shall be only too
Apply to write you personally il you
viii but let me know. Personally 1 am
Intensely interested in the boys and
iris problems and certainly have no
esfre to deprive them of one joy, but
at me write the rest TO you.