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Show f SUB I I ROSA mm II 1111111111' t f f ? ??? What to Do With Old Lot Letter . r IBECTION8 for treating old lore letter to the home: Take eptatle between the tbomb and forefinger and deposits one by one, or altogether, according ac-cording to taste, In the fireplace, tbe oven,, the good old furnace, according to accommodation furnished by tho borue. This recipe Is not going to be a riot with my young reader. In fact, I can bear shrieks of protest from every ev-ery direction: "What? Throw away all those beeyootlful protestation of love which wUI mean so much to me when I'm an old lady, toothless, and unadoredT" And I can see bundles of letters being be-ing tied wltb blue ribbon snd tucked away tenderly in the lowest drawer of the old desk. ' What's tbe barm, yoo ask? What possible dunger can lurk In evidences of a love long alnce dead and burled! Well, yoo never 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 sowed seeds of distrust and unhapplness In peaceful little homes. Dozens of young husbands have come on tender effusions, packed away out of sight and confronted their wives with angry 'accusations. Just as many more have resented knowing that their wives s'.lll cared enough for old forgotten b. t' to keep their letters around the bouse, cluttering clut-tering up valuable drawer space. Peggy's little romance busted np four years ago and Peggy saved all the evidence, and one fine day when her young husband came borne too preoccupied to remember to klsa her, she had a good cry and read a few of Bob's effusions Bob being the ex-sweetie 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 sight of tbe wonder-man who'd gone awny and left her. He had written beautiful letters, and John was so take-lt-for-granted, and she wondered whether Bob's eyes were still brown, etc, etc. Sounds Incredible but It's an actual fact that Peggy evolved out of ber own Imagination a sort of dream-man who made John's personality seem dull and tiresome. In fact she compared com-pared blm so much to tbe plain borne spun husband of everyday life that she grew pretty bored wltb the whole thing. No, she didn't run away from borne 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 tbe sensitive sensi-tive 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 stage portrays ber being sensitive all over the place and altogether it's considered rather smart to be sensitive. sensi-tive. But let me urge all you shrinking young things who Haunt your -sensitiveness about not to go In too heavily heav-ily for the new pose. However lovely the sensitive heroine sounds lit books, she doesn't last long In real life. She's killed either by ridicule or by her companions' neglect Although she may enjoy being rather delicate and overfastldlous, she don't enjoy being overlooked and delicately deli-cately snubbed. Let her become the victim of her own sensitiveness, and she will never know one mlnute'r ease. There's 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 friend? Did you find her particularly soothing as a companion? You did not You were on tender hooka while with her, because you knew tbe slightest slight-est slip on your part the slightest discourtesy, however unintentional, would be fatal. Io an Instant her smiling good humor hu-mor would change Into a sullen resentful re-sentful rage, her offended soul would shrink Into Its shell and there would be hitter words, heart-broken sobs, and what not Oh, believe me, one finds soon enough, that It's better to have no friends at alt than to have them all sensitive, lovely souls, who find themselves Just a bit too thin-skinned for this coarse, brutal world. The considerate people of this world the tender, thoughtful kind will shield the sensitive plant from 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 as an s. s. is supposed to behave. Just thank heaven that you have uu average thick skin and can take your place among the average people of this world, where all the happiest, most peaceful souls reside. S) br the Bell Sjndlcate. Inc.) |