Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-12-14 | Page 11 | An Oriental Love-Letter

A Oriental LoveLetter English Is put to strange and eloquent uses in the Orient Here for Instance Is I letter addressed to D native gentleman gen-tleman by a youth seeking the hand of his daughter uTa Bnboo Paternal father o Miss Dear SirIt is with a faltering fal-tering penmanship that I writo to havq communication with you about the I prospective condition of your damsel offspring For Home remote time to past n secret passion has tiring my bosom Internally with loving for our daughter I have navigated every channel l In the magnitude of my extensive exten-sive jurisdiction to cruelly smother the owing loveknot that Is being con strucled In my wlthlnslde but the humid hu-mid lamp still nourishes my lovesick ened heart Needless would it be form for-m to numerically extemporise the great conflagration that has been gen crated In my head and heart Hoping that having debated this proposition to your pregnant mind you will concordantly concord-antly corroborate In espousing your female fe-male progeny to my tender bosom and thereby acquire me Into your family circle Weekly Your dutiful soninlaw Harpers