Show i f I MRS SANGSTER ON LOVE UTTERS LETTERS Love Iove letters if they mean anything ore are not cold lons weighed and measured and written with kith a view to t criticism but hut are vehement and pas passionate expressions of the heart ht rt A girl who receives a n letter from her lover interprets ts it by the tons tones of his voice by b the glance of OC his eye e e by the warm pressure of or his hand hand When she reads it she aha hears him talking She I it is listening again to the sweet story that is so old eld ld yet ao eo new whether told t I J A in h dewy de lanes Janes by the tha light of the I or in cozy drawing rooms under a gas burner If A love loe letter though it throb with i J emotion motion is always deferential as well nell nellas w as tender if written by a man to the they y it whom horn he adores In true truehearted true I hearted ht arted adoration there is reverence I md nd if a man have no reverence foi for a I woman he does not rightly adorp adore her hel herThe herThe The knight of modern days da as a of medieval J romance renders render TR homage to his lady love Jo It almost goes without saying ing that no man ever writes u tl love I letter tte that is not perfectly respectful re and translucently pure to a girl who ho hohe i he hopes will become his hs wife I In a H more formal age than the language of courtesy and compliment was high flown flows and the method of or address ad address address dress extremely ceremonious Hon Madam was w the common common form Corm observed by the gentlemen of colonial days day and Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant often concluded a alove alove love letter Gushing sentimentality in correspondence WI S regarded as as In atrocious taste So great a man as Di Dr Samuel Johnson in writing to a lifelong friend aid aid most truly trul Those who have loved longest longe t love best A sudden blaze of affection may ma by bJ a single hingle blast of coldness be ex ox extinguished extinguished but to those who ho have 11 e eer bean er n much together everything heard and everything seen seln recalls recall some pleas ure communicated or some benefit conferred comp petty quarrel or some slight alight endearment end tL Among the most exquisite love loe let letters letters letters extant are those of Nathaniel Hawthorne Ha to his wife who was Sophia Peabody Equally perfect l are those of Thomas Carlyle to his be beloved beloved beloved loved wife Jane Welsh elsh Napoleons letters to Josephine written In camp and on the march In the most thrilling periods perio of his liis meteoric me career car r are models of fire and enthusiasm But these are the letters of oC married lovers love and I am thinking Just now of the cor correspondence that pasc nasam ea between en the unmarried I C In absence a R girl writes write to as well as letters lette from her men friends who may be friends friende merely merel mereland and not lovers The rules that govern all letter writing between friends gov gOY govern govern ern her in such communications Neither vapid sentiment nor ardent ad admiration admiration admiration may enter ent l here Engaged lovers or lovers Joven on the brink of be betrothal betrothal betrothal write in hi more intimate fashion with outpourings of oC feelings and desire for meeting which are appropriate and charming harming Such love letters are laid away in lavender and years after when yellow ellow and faded they may be read again gain and revive the tho gladness if of an exquisite youth But and Cand ana girls will wll pardon the re ro reminder c minder one must thoroughly the refinement r and nobility of th die man she addresses in a letter that reveals her soul Never Nev r matter how hOy great the temptation write to anyone a let letter letter ter that would shame sham you ou or outrage your standard of delicacy delie tey y if it should fall Call into the wrong hands Something strangely imperishable at ot attaches Itself to a written word Let Lpt Letters Letters t have a curious indestructibility They hide away in books or slip sUp Into the corners corner of or a desk or seem seam to have forever only to turn up again unexpectedly unexpected years after their writers have ha va forgotten them themA A love Jove letter which was a proposal of marriage was eras one day slipped by b a good man into a book he lent a girl he admired He HP naturally imagined she would immediately read the book but buther buther buther her attention was vas as diverted and the volume not looking especially attractive attractive attractive tive she glanced at it and laid it aside With the perversity of maul inanimate mate things it drifted out of sight and concealed itself on a top shelf Thirty years later when both lady and loer lover had long been beE n married not to one out an another another another other however the old lId letter dropped out of or the Rid phd volume when luul p upheaval the Horary w was to b t lug transferred l elsewhere in the house an hou o of or the I May lIay y I ea eg girls girl never neer to toon tarry Car on oti a clandestine e A girls life must t b an open q 1 page To J write to anyone wish to too write I Ito t to you U implies M a reservation S1 om your our I family is most unwise A girl irl need not net sHow snow her letters to her h mother but buther buthe buther 11 her he mother should know to whom sl she e writes writer i A girl observes ob res now and then a fall fail failing lag ing in off oft of Interest In letters she hf re iC receives from a lover at a R distant distance e They have been friends friE ds she and he ia in inthe i the home village He Ht has gone away to toa toa toa a big city to engage in business in inthe inthe inthe the hope of making a competence or 01 at lea least t securing 5 K Il foothold so that they the may marry At first the letters come comae from him with great regularity and they the satisfy every thought of her heart She answers them promptly I but she is not a very verJ gifted letter writer and the quiet life around her heris heris herIs is uneventful and there is little that she he can say to vary var the monotony of her letters I The man perhaps not very yel faithful by b nature ws ie i thrown into a new world I of excitement and arid action adion and is b by byway way of meeting girls girl who hl 1 manners and education outshine his betrothed be hed He att da them to one or 0 aoe lter er so social social cial function and is entertained in their homes komes Gradually the th e impression of loveliness lov n li T he marred away aay with Uh him fade It beg to be De a bore ore to have baTe to write rite so often to o the lithe tittle lit e girl I 1 up country Certainly t he be meads to gro go o homo home and marry her r in due duo time I ile Meanwhile he lie e only Duly halt half roads reads her let Itt letters I tears t I an and T own grow grew ties less J iud alid less lews II I j fervent ferment ia The rhe plain brutal truth ut 1 is i that he h lips has tho of hr hat b bArty early Arty loves love loveTo To a girl who grow goer go through h such suh an I experience nce the pain is deep and 00 often blighting bli She loses lo k aea 8 her hr l in all aU inen because one man has bas shown unworthy lInworth According to her temperament she behaves Sometimes she ehe utters futile reproaches Some Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times she exclaims again a int his coldness She Is in an unenviable po position position position but her bel only dignified course is isto isto isto to let the correspondence drop and give ive her het lover his lele A man who bo tires of his sweetheart art will wUl tire and grow I restive when hen married marrit d and prye pr v any anything anything anything thing but a desirable d rable husband I Long absences are trying episodes episodE in inthe ill the course cou of true love loe There conies comes 1 a day TV when hen letters let rs savor flavor yo oil of t t nent ment This Thin Is is to say stry sa t thou thousands sands of t people 1 pV t tt tt i is g only to oA is rM nt t fart fact fl chagrin dt and a d Nr 13 i 1 in i when love letters t T cO II e i a abu burden bu to iii pel I gradually cease ce ile t be 1 nt in m the of that f tan m the dally daily m mall ll liH 1 11 b h by Joseph Jo B Bowles I |