| Show I THE PERILS OF A READY I PEN I ilY Y a A. special providence ence Invoke the M MY aid of or a host of at guardian ardlan angels a troop of mounted police and po police police police po- po lice on foot to guard the tho man and woman afflicted with what Is Ie commonly common common- ly known as the gift of ot a fluent pen for they write things that entertain and their letters are always welcome and every overy letter bears beans this postscript Burn this I 1 But It is a R. long Ions way Wn- down to the furnace and few v homes these days are equipped with tho the convenient stove and It takes time and patience to burn bum a aletter aletter aletter letter over o a n gas GM flame flamo or a match and the Burn this letter is never burned J and it starts on a A. Journey Journe whose whoso destination destination desti desti- nation Is the tho hands of ot tho the person on whose account It was ordered to the lames flames and though the Journey Journer be tong long and often otten delayed the tho destination is sure Wrote rote King Carlos to his queen Madame It li Is very vers' er windy and I have ha killed six wol wolves wol's s 's Carlos Carlo Another letter Josephine It Is cold and antI I am sick for home Napoleon Lf Letters of It all ill the great minds in history his his- tor tory have been brief and o ha contained contained contained con con- nothing that wouldn't look webon well web wellon on I a billboard at a n busy street crossing cross ing The letters that are aro lon long and und verbose are written b by the tho Idlers the dreamers the foolish the heedless s and tho the sentimental When hen such a letter better writer drifts Into lo e. lovea a kind and protecting protecting protecting pro pro- providence has to call caU out the reserves to save sa him hint from a suit for tor breach brelich of ot promise He lie puts things thinS's In black and white that wouldn't sound well whispered he dangles les the family skeleton on every ever pave page he tie Is never too hus busy to w write n nt at t len length th he writes a ahard anand nand hard that Is dangerously I 1 plain to road and he lie never nevor was known at ut an any time in Ms pis life to hove ho have that guardian angels angel's ang disease writers writer's paralysis lie He writes and writes as a. long Ions as ns the pen will scratch and the Ink holds holda out and if IC an anything thing is left lett untold that shouldn't b. b bo be told it t is because ho cant can't think oC of It It It but hut he ho remembers it next da day and writes again He Ile Is like a n. fool tool with a gun and the tho I Ipen pen Is his god guti and he lie shoots in evory every direction and empties both barrels he hs takes taku weapons of ot defense from tho the hands of or his friends and puts them Inthe ia to the hands of ot his enemies If Ie ho knows any fn secrets he becomes a n. af soon BOOn 1 as s h be b dips his hi pen in ink and every word ho writes la is a holo hole I He lie makes so BO much mischief that his friends sigh for tor the good old 11 days when I tho the school school teacher tf-acher was waa the only person In town who knew how to write and the tho task was so laborious that no one employed cd his services except to tell teU of or births marriages or deaths If Ie t tho IO men or tho the women are the themore themore themore more afflicted addicted to this foolish habit isa la is a a. question If It the men then t not Jot of much credit it due them for tor all th their Ir lr training training train train- ing has hns been cn to the brevity lt acquired in signing 61 a check and If f r the theOlen w onion len they are arc not much to blame since all the tho minor details of ot life from the color of ot Janes Jane's new hair to directions for tor putting put- put Un ting out the cat at night are aro oft loft to t i their telling But when a man and a n. woman do d spill tho time Ink It is the man who spills It to his own misfortune A woman may tell things about her neighbors but It is 18 the man poor thing thinS who spills the tho ink that causes so much merriment to the other side Id in court It Is Js the man who writes love letters that makes his guardian angels send in their resignations dons It is tho the man who spills the ink so 80 I that It blots all over o himself Women dont don't write that kind of ot letters let- let bra tors they save sa them |
