| Show y I Letter Writing at L Leisure in Africa I. I 4 S the with Man ra with 1 11 1 Grouch turned on 7 1 tho switch and filled the room I with Ji light hl his eye oe tell fell on n foreign looking letter l hJ ly lying h t J ing log directly be beI beneath he- he neath it it II he ho exclaimed ex ex- Ii I claimed a Jolt letter r 7 1 from that wanderinG wandering wan wan- 4 dering old beggar beg beS' gar Foote He Ho had bad just come In In but the letter was BO so fascinating that he lle forgot everything c else elne as he perused it even eyen forgetting to take off ott his hat and antI coa coat t. t It was dated from a village with a queer namo name on the west sest coast of ot Africa and was on thin foreign paper In the closely written and cleanly formed hand of a a. man accustomed to write te The reading was over at length and Uld the lie Grouch Man settled in n front of or his fire to digest It Seven pages pales n ne rip muttered and every o one as full ull of meat as an ogg gg The soul of or the black man in ij Africa made wade plain as only onh old Footo Foote could 1 do dolt ItI It I 1 suppose a aman man has hns to go go to lo west vest Africa to find time line to write a letter like ilko that This helter heller generation generation gener goner has no time for old ra old fashioned I 4 corre correspondence correspondence- nc It bends 2 n nd s Its Ils sages messages messages I by telephone telegraph or special messenger meg mes and is hs so rushed that It has I nothing to say ay oa It waits walts for no Impressions and has no impression to give c It if b by an any I I I chance comes a a. break in the I I T A N r JA He Ic remembered four COUI things thing he hedu had bad to 10 tie ilo that tr very ery night a time-table time of r appointments and some poor fool tool finds himself with twenty 5 minutes on his hands he lie gets fright fright- en ened d. d He is afraid to bo ho alone with himself and rushes off to scare up somo sort eort of oC excitement In olden times he would have ha sot ot himself down and nd filled up a page pac In a his diary Or he would have ha written 0 another page of or the long letter to a friend or relative I r I think Ill I'll stay ny home and write Foote an answer twenty pages Ion long d It will be beThe be bc CI The telephone ball bl rang B By the time lie he had answered it h. h he lie remembered four foul things s ho lie had to do rio that o vory N nl ht Footes Foote's letter is s not yet ot an- an ans s red I I |
