The Trinity journal., 1856-04-26
WRITE LETTERS Alice, in letter to


"Not to everybody, nor to all those that
ask you, or you will be tasked beyond your
notience. and find it rather hard to shake off
q host of Improbable acquaintance. Young
men that come to this sunset land, you need
not correspond with all the heartless girls
you've left behind you, who have made your
generous hearts futter lest you encourage
expectations never to be realized-lest you
write soft, love-sick things, that you would
blush to see in your biography-lest some
offended damsel tear youreyes out for incon-
stancy and flattcry, or breach OF promise
Not to all your country cousins, lest your clas-
sizes be neglected in consequence, your bus-
ness likewise will suffer
Write punctuay to those with whom you
have business transactions. A great many
who lack neither industry nor resolution find
it extremely hard to write a business note Of
half dozen lines. Like rail cars, it is ea-
ser to run forty miles on their track than to
run rod out of their way on either side
But write to your sister far away, your let
ters to her are a luxury that she prizes more
than her costly jewelry say, what is the
cost Of sheet of paper, thimble full Of
ink. Undoubtedly the cigars you are at
present smoking in gambling and drinking
saloons, cost more than the postage of your
short epistle. The cigar you have stuck be-
tween your teeth ends in ashes and smoke,
but the letter strengthens the family tie and
adds a strand to the kindred cords that bind
the members of your absent home together
She will then receive in your signature a re-
buke for her fears. And when the sister
takes from the Office the long wished-for let
ter, methinks | hear her say
These lines have come full many mile,
Fen from the golden shore,
hand long to clasp the while,
Has traced these pages DER.
And remember to write to your aged mo-
thcr. She will soon discover by your letters
if you keep good company and be comfortcd
in your weary absence. But if on the con
trary, you neglect to write, her affections
may have hard struggles with her fears to
assure her that you have not sunk into vice
and gone astray.
Oh! she would ask thee of the face
That bent above this sheet,
No anxious longing could ye trace,
Dear distant ones to greet.
| lain would gaze on that clear brow
loved to look upon,
If manly, frank, and open now,
AS once in days agone.
Oh tell me of the eyes, the eyes
That gazcd upon this scroll,
If still they speak without disguise,
OF all within the soul
Take time from the gambling and drink
ing house, from society Of of low cOmpan-
ions, sleep or even meals and write, for
when you have not time to write to your alb
sent mother, you have not time to be gazing
at drunken braWl or row in the street, for
he who made time gave it not to be squan-
dered away for, most assuredly, wise man
eSteems hours and minutes as drops of pearls
or grains of gold
In conclusion l would entreat you to re-
member your father, for your long delay in
writing may thicken the silver hairs on his
sage and reverend head Write to him as
often as he writes to you, lest he misnter-
prot your silence and cannot trust his boy
lie will forgive you, and morning and eve
ming pray for the wanderer, but he will not
live always, and when you have time to write
and look to him, his dear patcmal form may
have departed Give him the costIess So
lace of frequent letters, that he may know
to the last he is not forgotten, write to him
to-day. More anon
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