Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-07-13

tograph, Just to look at IT, you Know,
and he saws you're too beautiful fer
sent him my photograph !" l ex,
claimel, in dismay. why, how couId
yoado thaty"
"Oh, it was not to keep. Just 70
lock at that's all. Why, anybody has
the right to look at photograph, |
suppose You have the queerest, cd
fashioned notions. I've given away
dozens of mine to young men.
was really frightened, bat to be
pronounced beautiful, when | have
only moderate share Of good l)oks,
hattered me to the point of forgiVng
the presumption of my roommate.
Message followed mes; age after this,
until one day letter came t. me in
closed in one to Ellen. My first love
letter II was a miserable piece OF
bombast, but l was not disposed t. be
critical, though l read il with timid,
guilty feeling.
"Of course, you'll answer it, sad
Ellen, as we talked about it that
night
NO. I replied, hesitat.ngly. q
think you'd better send it back to him.
and Il him he mustn't write again.
"In do no such thing, Ellen
answered angrily. you've given
him encouragement, you've been send
ing him nice messages and raising his
hopes, and now you want to turn
around and insult him. You can tell
him yourself if you choose. shall
not hurt the poor fellows feelings.
In a day or two l wrote, trying to
be very firm and decided lie rep led
to that, urging reasons for writ ng,
and one letter brought on another,
until in the excitement and delight OF
sentimental correspondence | eX-
pressed myself more strongly than !
intended. In fact, might as well tell
the truth | wrote to man | had
never seen and knew nothing about
that there had been stranger things
than learning to love favored cor
respondent
l was very foolish? do you say
Yes. Craed with excitement and
not responsible? No. For | had
been led toit against the protest Of my
good sense.
Let it serve as a warning to ether
girls. These written follies somehow
have the knack of coming back upon
their auth9rs, like ghosts that viii not
be laid.
l was to leave school about the tim
of my seventeenth birthday. As that
period drew near l began to feel NOR
deeply the fauy of what | had done
and to see ii sec ssity of getting on
of the ent q S,lent into which l ha
been led - eli the truth, too.
: began 10 A. XL sa-of the eorTespono
, !, enS ne ssh - I'd that my admirers !
tiers were 6sten ill-sp2iel and badi
expressed. AT times he became S
high-hown that | could not quite I'm
derstand him. In my ignorance
thought | could end the matter whcl
pleased, and the very idea that fathe
or that my brother Harry should fin
cut anything about it terrified m.
had no mother, but my good, kline
father was mother and father both
though sometimes he could he yer,
stern when did wrong.
told Ellen that | was going HON
the next week and should not writ,
again to her cousin. She must |
him that | wanted the correspondence,
to cease, and if he wrote to me at my
home should be compelled to return
the letters.
you know it's been in fun any
way" | said "And / want you to get
my letters from him and burn then
up. Here are his" handing her {
package.
To my a3tonishment she burst int.
rage She, who hal taught me that
it was only fun to engage in thes.
affairs, a at en- became indignant al
my falseaood She was always coarse
and common in her speech, but thai
day no yirago could have surpassed hel
in VulgaIity. She exhausted herself al
last, and then burst into a passion o.
tears. You needn't think to throw
him off that way" she cried. "You'y,
led him on, and now you're going HON,
because you think your pas richie.
than ne is, you're for casting him t,
the winds. | want to say to you tha
fun's fun, but this matter has gon
farther than fun. Woa't he give it +
me, tool" and she had another storm
paroXysm.
l was terribly frightened, and it dis
gusts me to think of the quantity .
humble pie | was forced to eat tina
day. l cried. prayed, L presenle
Ellen with a Set Of pink coral on whic
she had long cast coyetous eyes, and a
last she apparently relented, and prom
ised to get me out Of the scrape
"At least, I'll do my best" she sale
shaking her head "but you don't know
Guy. He'sa mule when his heads Sc
on anything, and you can't drive no
coax him.
That was not exactly the noble char
acter she had before given him, but
was too glad to have the promise OF al
advocate in the matter to find fault.
How happy l was when | reachel
home and felt that was not to leave
it again How beautiful the gdrdef
and lawnof Plainfeld looked under The
midsummer sum Then, too, Harry
was at home. a handsome fellow Just
twenty, with marvellous muStache
which he had grown within the year,
and trying hard to be dlgnIllad ana
imposing in manner
The following week there was 70 Dc E
grand party at Plainfeld to celebrate
my seventeenth birthday How happy
q 1 was in those days, choosing my dress
Z and having ii made up, and reGelYlh8
i and visiting the dear old friends VINO VINO
: crowded in to welcome me 1t seemed
d to me no girl in the world had a more ore
blissful lot, and the future stretghea Ii
7 out before me a cloudl@ss Y ta I an
=, intrusive memory Of the past year
N N forced itself upon me | thrust It t
quickly away, and went singing ana
dancing through the house, ,,,,.n,1
At last The momentous day dawnea; i.l5
and from 80, ornino the household