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The Letter
Writing Vice '
Br AD 1 PATTFRS05I.
In Brooklyn a married pair h separ
ated and an en-ajred on nan developed
a frigidity that Is first cousin to the mid
weather (January weather) that swept
this country. Because a fool girl wrote a
fool letter.
There wan a Ms behind the Irtter.
But the kiss would have heen harmless
despite the spread and acceptance of the
perm theory, had It not heen for the let
ter that was aa an echo ot the kins.
The wife of a muslo teacher. rlihllnc:
his pocket of their Impodmlcnts while
lie did the family mrndlnK, found, rend
and placed In a look box In a safety de
posit vault, this letter:
"I m surprised how wllllnnly I Kve
my lips to you. If I continue to do so
will not your wife be?omn a ninnlne I
thought of all these things while the
wind howled."
Tho Mtor set the domestic wind howl
Ins;. The muslo master's wife con
fronted him with a copy of tho letter
ml vim naran nmH I i r.iiii. I nun i
know what made her write it. What sl e
refers to Is a harmless Utile kiss of
friendship."
But the music master's wife refused to ;
understand. Nor did the .ludp.o un
derstand." Whn he rnst Ills epoctnrled
Rlsnce over that letter he granted (in
order of separation with nllmnny. The
music teacher will have to give more
music lessons thsn bi fore to pay the
alimony.
The girl's family censured the musie
muster's wife and the Jiidore. It -om-plnlned
that she wns 111. "All this non
sense has prostrated her. There Is ab
solutely nothlnK in It." Hut the girl's
fiance ceased Tallinn. The girl Is re
f lectins; upon the Tolly of sentimental
letter writing.
The kiss was n mistake. Tlie letter
was a greater one. Some things are bet
ter forgotten, the sooner the better. And
there is nothing that so emphasise a
mistake as a letter dwelling upon n- n
is casting the die. It Is nn Impression;
made In what Is otherwise soft uiuinnco
and might remain pulpy and unim
pressed. "Most of the foolish letters to
which impatient Judges arc forced to
listen are written by women and begin
with "I have Just left you. but 1 inunt
Men have more Of restrain, mere m ,
worldlv wisdom, in altairs 01 Fcmininu
or of business: They are careful w.'at
they pen. A woman Is as careless of j
what she writes as though some con
venient wind would whTSt it away to tut
known quarters of the globe, instead of
peaching a man's easily accessible pocket.
A girl told me of a sentimental socio
with a man who professed ardent nd
miratlon for her. Tot the next day. hav
ing occasion to write her, he began tUe
letter with "Dear Mlaa Blank ' and ended
It with, "Tours truly. William Brown."
-Fortunately she waa a girl who thought
her way through things. That letter
checked her inclination to ruslt headlong
' Into an Ill-considered and dangerous lovo
affair. The next time the man called
she was .out." And the next and the
tiext 'LTyhon h telephoned she gave htra
.the absent' treatment. . She has married
worthily and Is glad that the ihilllng
letter checked a slroocco lovo affalf In Its
beginning.
But aha was wiser than most girls.
Most of them would have attributed that
srlaclal letter to the business ' habit. I
know a gtrt who accepted a flirtatious
man's excuse ''that he didn't write her
because ha la so used to dictating that
ha could not write letters. Some girls
would have besieged "Tours truly. Wil
liam Brown." with tear wet epistle ask
ing him why he was no coldl
A girl who allows discretion In buying
a gown shows indiscretion in settlne
, down her threat throbs In pen and Ink
for a careless or scornful man to reaa.
a -trt hn stands at the head of her
Oass In school may he at the foot In com
mon sense conduct of everyday affairs.
Consider this Brooklyn girl. If she had
told her 'mother cf the music master's
kiss her mother would have discharged
the teacher and the silly affair would
have ended. But she must write a letter!
Beware the letter-writing vlcel No.
the term is not too harsh. A vice may
be a defect, a blemish, a fault. Indis
creet letter writing is all these.
Her Likeness
t'opyrlht. 1!M. Intem'1 News Pen I
- ; By Nell Brinkley
Girls Who Make Mistake May
ott a :t mj tt n
kjuuL sinew ij l ncy nave vouraye
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
Von May Accept Her Invltatio).
Iicnr Miss .Fairfax: Two years '
while visiting a girl friends in the co-in-try
I met a voiing man. lie was vci
attentive to me and we corresponded
after my return home. Kaeh wlui'-r
since then he has pent one week-end a
month at mv home, l-tttcly ho has been
urging me to vMt hia home, and snys
be will have bis sister write and Inviie
ine if I do not care to go on his Invita
tion. Now the last time I isltfd (lie
friend through whom 1 met him. hi" sis
ter Hked me to come and see her this
winter. The man has never apoken ol
marriage to me. and though l would
like to take the trip to visit his people.
J do not want to do anything that wouhl
i-Aiise a-ntisliv cspeclallv in view of the
fact that our friendship may come to
thing. M. l-
Tha young man's attituile seems to In- ,
dicate that lie Is deeplv Interested In i
you. it would be almost caddish of hint j
to make so many advances unless he
was very sure of his feelings. If his sis- j
ter writes ami extends the Invitation for
you to visit them. I think It would be In '
perfectly good taste for you to go. if
the Invitation cotues from her no one .
will be able to discuss you In any way
except a kindly one. After all. you sre j
almost more open to criticism through i
having this man so frequent a visitor at ,
your own home than you would be If '
you made a single visit to his sister.
Way Try to Karget Hlmf I
Hesr Miss Fairfax: I am II years of
nge and about a vear ago met a young
man two years my senior, to whom I
took a great liking. He showed me In
every way that he liked my company,
hut never led me to believe that he had
mre than a friendship for me.
To put him out of my mind I left the
city for four weeks, but during that
time thought of hun more than ever, it
Is now about seven months since I last
saw him, but it seems Impossible to for
get, is this Infatuation or love
Being an orphan and not having any
one to go to, I will be governed by your
advice. AKXIOtJc.
I think yon are making a tragedy out
of nothing. If there is no barrier b-
.een you. why do you not enjoy this
man's friendship and wait to sea Into
what It will develop? If there la some
reason why be ran never ba anything
to you. yen must simply determine to
forget him. The whole thing Is probably
neither Infatuation nor love, but tha Jure
of the forbidden. Contrary human na
ture haa an unfortunate way of wanting
what It can't have.
A girl who has bo man? wilful ways
Sbe would have cauMd Job's patience to foresake him,
Yet Is bo rich la all that's girlhood's praise,
Did Job himself upon her goodness gaze,
A. little better she would surely make him.
Tet is this girl I sing In naught uncommon.
And very far from angel yet, I trow;
Her faults, her swoetnesiies, are purely human,
Tet she's more lovable as simple woman
Than anyone diviner that I know.
From the poem by Dinah Mulock.
r F.I.I. w m i i nn wil.tot.
t'oprlaM HI. Star Osmnanv.
A well behaved and Industrious ynung
woman vanished from home, and after
a week's absence wrote to her fsmlly
saying. "Forget me "
Those two words told the whole terrlb'e
story.
Hut they told something else besides -they
told the unjust altitude of human
brings who compose society toward an
erring woman.
Had this young woman been a oun
man and conun tied the same sins, ran
w for one litoinrnt suppose thai a letler
would have been sent heme to t'n- wait
ing relatives?
Indeed, no. The young man would have
gone back and his family would have
fallen upon his nc k with "no ijui etluua
naked."
Just as this silent attltud" toward the
son Is wions. so Is the cruelly seven
altitude toward an minis girl a slum
bllng block In the way of humanity's
evolution.
I wish every weak and foolish girl who
hn taken one wn.ng step nivl believes
she must go on to the end of the blah
way, although site l.im to turn hm-u.
would take co-irate mill make the at
tempt right iiKW before she passes an
other milestone.
Tha moreiiiv and the potter's field and
Ihe Island'' are filled with tl:ose who
dared not turn back.
In the porks and on the streets you
may meet blear eved old women In rugs,
begging eniile. u." pass. r.-h. I In rune
of these faces res's the I nn ring rem
nant of wl-at once wns beauty 1h
beauty which opened ;ue d.air to tempi,
tlon, perhapa.
And after they had started on the path
they believed it wa Impossible 1o turn
bark.
Tet had they Irlert. what fate could
hava been more terrible than the one
they found a they pnssed nlons; the
highway of folly?
A few years of fine apparel, and car
riages, and wine suppers, and travel, and
sxcJtoment, at the very best. Always the
need of hiding Ihe source of these lux
uries from the world, alwava the peed of
lies, and pretence, and secrecy, or else
the titter sinking of Ihe whole moral
nature In a brsxen dlsrecard of public
opinion.
And each year seeing- the physical
charms fading, euch enr realising the
rearer approach of that awful time
when neglect and insult must take the
place of pursuit and flattery.
And then the depths of degradation
with premature eld age and poverty and
loneliness and the fictitious excitement
of drink as the only relief from despair.
There are hundreds of such old women
In our great citlea today women who
mad one false step, perhapa with the
Idea of escaping drudgory; perhaps
through lack of will power, and per
haps because of a misplaced trust. But
whatever . the cause, there must have
been hours In the early part of the Jpur
ncy when each on of these women
longed to turn back Into the straight
path and begin over.
And because she had been taught that
nothing bu death could remedy a , wo
man's fall -and that no amount of re
pentance or Christianity could, gain her
the respect of her fellow men, she dared
not try. '
Tet In our great cities, too, and In
high places. In the church and In so
ciety, women walk who have turned
baok and cast their follies behind them.
There are good mothers and good wives
who have built their own ladder upon
which they climbed from error. The
world offers better opportunities to
women who reform In this age than
ever befor. '
All occupations are open to them, and
In distant state and far from old as
sociations the woman who ha the will
and the desire strong enough may and
can start on a new upward path. Belf-
ontiol, tears, sorrow, loneliness, hard
ships and reinorae will all be 'hers, yet
re not these better companions for a
rw years than the Inevitable results of
i life of Immorality and folly? The
.veild Is sure to drspls her and shim
her if she kcca on. .i she turns b.-iek
now she can compel It after a time li
rrspect the nobility of her life.
I'o you want to begin anew?
If ou cannot f'.nj the way bak alons
there atn awect aoeis under Hulvaton
Arm uniform ready In help y n, a el
t ho i are good woiuu In silks and Unci
ho will answer If you rail.
And after you have mule up your
in nd to begin n new bfe, he i arrf..l
ami avoid confession and confidence.
Your past belongs to ynuraclf and your
iloj, your future to humanity, W k an
asccniilMK path and keep alienee. You
have as good a right to a future us a
wife and mother as men have tu be hue
bunds and fathers, onr yrtu reform.
It Is not an e-tsy thing to do. but
the life jhvii are living la not an easy
one and the future holds the certain
dr. fling from boudoir t street, from
fine apparel and carrlagea to rags and
the bevslng of car fares and night loria
:nci, or th niorgus and pauper's bur'ah
Not on woman In JiVWO In your posi
tion ever savca a dollar of her Ill
earned money for the certain day that
she loses the physical charm that are
her only hold on fortune.
Better face a few year of hardship
now. In an effort to begin life anew,
than to go on to hardship and horror
Indescribable,
Ho you think of yourself a hope
less, blackened sinner? Think of your
self na a foolish, weak and mlataken
woman, no more lost to hona than tha
in.mo men who are received by tha world
and society In spite of past error far
deeper and darker than your own.
The hip of one virtue does not mean
the extinction of all. The possession of
one virtu dee not inan the poeilon
of all.
If you have fallen througtt on man'
rcifllv, or Ihrotfih an excee of love or
Ij, tensity, or treat, you are almply a
human -being who has gona wrong
through misdirected virtues.
Ton are like a plant that ha become
a weed through neglect of proper cul
ture and care.
NYu are not a wicked In Ood' sight
sa the lenlon. bark-bltttns and mis
rhleNmaklng woman who ruins the hap
piness of all her associate by her evll
speaklng tongue.
You are not aa wtcked tn Ood a sight
as the woman of fashion who marrlea a
man she deaplsea for th wealth he can
give her and who hates her unborn child.
But your future will be more fffaastroua
than that or either of these bemuse of
the rules of society, and you Jlave no
time to waate If you would start on the
wy of reform.
rut loos from all th association
which yon are compelled to hide from
th world. Reek som nw place and
scene nd go to work and build up a
goAd life for yourself.
Wi can be what we will to be.
In-Shoots
The stool pigeon Is the cheapest of al'
conscienceless crooks.
The morning after Is also prolific with
good resolutions.
It Is not good for man to live alone,
but It I less expensive, anyhow.
The man who Is entirely satisfied l.i
usually a tiresome compsnlon.
The promoter often part with money
a rapidly he accumulates It.
As a rule th people who suffer In
silence have but. light attacks of trouble.
It Is better to hit th bull's-eye In s
short sermon than to tire the ataner Into
repentance with a long one.
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