Show J jooa SUB MIMI what to do with old love letters for treating old love letters la the home take epistles between the thumb and forefinger and one by one or altogether according to taste in the fireplace the oven the good old furnace according to accommodation furnished by the borne this recipe Is not going to be a riot with my young readers in fact I 1 can hear shrieks of protest from ev ery direction what throw away all those protestations of love which will mean so much to me when I 1 m an old lady toothless and on adored and 1 can see bundles of letters being tied with blue ribbon and tucked away orderly in the lowest drawer of the old desk the harm you ask what possible danger can lurk in evidences of a love long since dead and burled well you can tell little girls just how harmless these packets of romance may turn out to be there are on record at least fifty thousand cases of old love letters which have bowed sowed seeds of distrust and unhappiness in peaceful little homes dozens of young husbands have come on tender ef fusions packed away ou of sight and confronted their ches with angry accusations jut as many more have resented knowing that their wives still cared enough for old forgotten b s to keep letters around the house cluttering up valuable drawer space little romance busted up tour years ago and peggy saved all the evidence and one fine day when her young husband came home too preoccupied to remember to kiss her she had a good cry and read a few of bob s ef fusions bob being the ex sweetie and felt better after that she always read the old love letters when domestic crises arose and her sentimental soul began to crave a sight of the wonder man ahod gone away and left her had written beautiful letters and john was so take it for granted and she wondered whether bob S eyes were still brown etc etc sounds incredible but its an actual tact that peggy evolved out of her own imagination a sort of dream man who made johns personality seem dull and tiresome in tact she corn pared him so much to the plain home spun husband of everyday life that she grew pretty bored with the whole thing io she run away from home or do anything dramatic she just lived on with the dissatisfaction and discontent she herself had created and nobody was the wiser and nobody was the better the sensitive soul FOR some reason or other the sens tave soul is enjoying a certain amount of favorable attention these days fiction writers are giving her a big blow songs are written around her the biage her being sensitive all over the place and altogether its considered rather smart to be live but let me urge all yon shrinking young bilings alio flaunt your bensi tl veness about not to go in too beav lly for the new pose however lovely the sensitive heroine sounds in books she doean doesn t laef long in real life shea klied either by ridicule or by her companions neglect although she may enjoy being rather delicate and she don t enjoy being overlooked and dell cately I 1 et her become the victim of her own sensitiveness and she will never know one ease thebes nothing beautiful about the sensitive soul who goes about the world looking for trouble terrified and hurt when she finds it watchful and resentful at not finding more have you ever had a sensitive did you find her as a companion you did not you were on tender books while wibb her because you knew the slightest slip on your part the slightest discourtesy however unintentional would be fatal in an instant her smiling good bu mor would change into a sullen resentful rage her offended soul would shrink into its there would be bitter words heart broken sobs and what not oh believe roe one finds soon enough that its better to have no friend at all alian to have them all sensitive lovely souls who find just a bit too thin for this coarse brutal world the peo i ie of this world the tender kind will ehlend the sensitive plant froin the cold winds of criticism and ridicule as best they can don t flatter yourself that you re a sensitive soul and make a practice of behaving us an s s Is supposed to behave just beann that you have an average takk skin and can take your place among the averages people of this win id where all tb fa happiest most peaceful soula reside 0 by the enow |