The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-03-29
The Last orthc Lore-Le1ters.


Among the many lost arts one would wish to
Dave found again, Is the art Of writing loyeletters
Do ls sad thing, bui we don't write loyeletters
nowadays We correspond" or exchange
friendly communications. bGt We don't write
lerelet,e-s: ne can't; we are too business-like
r-i- There is q favor Of An complaints to be
addressed 20 tie Secretary and " Please quote
els uuu.5er 10 your reply" ia cur best amatory
rssivss and they mainly acquire their distinctive
cazracie- by being without @ margin. We are
600 Cyula-- i1r 90 : we have grown ashamed to
book sentiment DO the face. much less to make
cry deliberate rsc5rd Of il 10 black and white
And ue ore also O little too cautious It would
d. horrible Co become source Of amusement to
Tire jury. oar letters accordingly are written
v.,h on eye 10 The confusing Of Sergeant Buzruz,
and preoi01s things Of course they are. The
arerce packet oi them. returned nowadays after
q quarrel or locked up after marriage, is at best
r.; kind of withered apple hardly worth the
t-o1a-a Of preserving. A poor tale Of appoint
mems flr seven o. Sundays, and Of inquiries for
missing umhselias-age can give them no mellow
ness, and fading ink no poetry And the worst
are uittu those that make pretension to tender
ness The force CT weakness can no further 90
than iu ths documentary evidence" sometimes
cited iu The breach Of promise cases, as proofs Of
the warmth Of The deieudarts attachment. Wei
come tlHce welcome, the formal Madam. your
oaelisut Servant before the detestabe Ever
y1ur Logey Dovey
H I'll e l.
vheu postage cost an appreciatle sum! It was
fingered over 10 a deliberate, leisursly manner.
Ike auy other luxury and rarity. They could not .
have been done 10 catch any particular post. / /.
prefer rather 70 think that the writers themselves .
fixed time al which they would probably be .
ready and that the post waited their royal
pleasure. Teis must have been SO. for there were
Gays on which they could not have been written.
--aiuy days. for instance, aud cold days aud IN.
comfortable days generally. am inclined to
believe that most Of the writers must have done
then be- fcl dress, there Is such an air Of court
vg and lace-rufies 10 every line.
The iove-istisrs, especially, must have been SO
written: 90 individual in mere coat and con-
tiuuati5us could have produced such compost
;i1z a. The following which I lighted upon the
Other day ia the Spectator. No LAP. dated l59
Eezrs ago Il is forwarded 10 Mr.. Spectator by
ths recipient an old lady Of sixty-seyeu as an
example q how the thing ought to be done
AusCsE :. I67I-Alda1a. II my vigilance and
ten Thousand wishes for your welfare and repose
cosld have any force, you last night Aug. 6, 1919
years ago slept 10 security. and had every good
angel IN g0ur attendance. To have my thoughts
eFs- fEed on y0u 70 live IN constant fear Of every
accident to which human Life is liable. and to send
a. ny hourly prayer 70 avert them from you: {
say. Madam. thus 70 think and thus TO suffer. is
y aai do Tor her who Is in pain at my approach.
zu5 Gals al ny tender sorrow impertinence. You :
l-s noE before ny eyes, my eyes that are ready {
-5t1E With tenderness, bu, can not give relief to '
~ EushinE heart that dictates what am now i
1giag- and yezras TO tel you all its achings. t
Dos Al ;hou, Oh ny soul, stolen from myself, Z
sy books are blank paper, and my friends IN
iFlaezs- ! have no hope Of quiet but from your r
Hl'g7 % grant il would make more for your tri- t
amph- To give paia : the tyranny, to make b
azETy he iTae empire Of beauty. II you would 4
,9asioer arlgli, you would find an agreeable v
ih-ags n d-snlssing the ATTENDANCE Of slave to
eoeiVe The oomPlaisanoe Of companion. bear $
be former IN hopes Of tie latter condition as
I'VE IL chains without murm0ring at the power it
Ehlch iu6icis them, 50 ! could enjoy freedom "
Eiisosi forgetting the mercy that gave it. il
Madam, az jour most devoted most obedi il
II Ssrvant il
Tie only good modern loreleiier the present ST
inter remembers 70 have seen was one written Il
2 himself This may seem ike vanity. but it is Of
% 50. The letter was the composition of an
sber person, bricklayer. who having to mend @
oPps- il certain house, asked the writer. who IN
zpps7ed 70 be Al home for the holidays. whether n
e ~Ould mind dong bit Of writing for him. e.
! i vas some tine since he had handled pen. hi
be writer assented. The brieklayer produced or
seet q ioolscap from the interior Of his hat n
BE writer fetching ruler from tie library. COW of
ed The paPsr with even Ines The bricklayer. Jr
n 9 p-snOuitory tap Of bis trowel, dictated wi