The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-21
DOLLIE'S LETTER.
Fer Love of Warm Weather and
Her Opinion of Men Who De-
cert Their Wives.
DEAR NELL

| L Ike warm weather. Not certainly the in
tense heat OF the tropics when the sun is
burning in the gray mIs,s of the heavens like
moulten brass, but the warm weather when
the mornings are fresh with the dew and
the evenings hold those soft whispering
/ breezes, which seem to have hidden all day
long in the hearts of the lilies and roses. L
enjoy the blue back ground of hills be-
yond the golden grain fields, | love the
/ soft, musical pIa>h of the waves which
lszily lave the rivers brim, / find sort
of sensuous delight in the just, perC eptiblc
movement of Inc row upOd row of leaves
which barg from the shade tres, like to
feel ihst | an warm without a wrap or
| fire AID dislike fan save as an orna-
meDt.
Why, Nell some of the bappiest mo-
ments | know, ;me TO me in the summer
evenings, when Will Sis on the veranda,
with has careless, s.ipper,d fe-t higher
than his head, his chair just tilted, dainty
| cigar btween bis red lis and every now
| AMI then purple ring OF smoke floating
softly upward with q csressing motion as
| hough il wanted TO lingSr about his we'll
shaped head Bessie with her beautiful
violet eyes turned upward, her golden head
| leaning g4inst my knee and her solemn,
quaint questions aboul Gods Stars :" baby
Blossom With her dimpled cheek resting
upon an embroidered pillow In the ham
mock ard her white lids with their dark
fringe shut oyer her sleep-dulled eyes and
myself in my low willow rocker swayipg
slightly too and fro.
All What are the delights Of the ball
room to such q sweet -heart picture as this
There ones feet VIII pam, gloves pinch,
co SIT puaCh Its way into places where IL
hurts, ligh glare before tie eyes, dis
agreeable p,OpIe Cf,r ;hrir attentions, ice
cream give a Chill and, oh, ever so many
things al n y ard tease, ard here is love
and peace and home-'he last, the sweetest
word, exec: ting rest, la the English Ian
guage.
Mel, dear, you mus ct marii,d Not
without love though. Nay, never without
Iove, not passion or iniatuaiion, or because
OF trat awiuny hoteiul, Yet ABUSED word,
affinity" but because pure, seli-sacrihCing
love is the prime cause. | can imagine
TO hing more iorlorn than the lie of q.
clever old maid-a dull, sculless sort of a
creature can exist with any thing-who
loves the beauies OF home life, Who longs
to caress lite chilGreO, and who has an in
pa'e conviction that sue could pet man,
be petted, or use a broOm-stick with quick
ness AID dexter ty on him ii the occasion
required it? No, nothing more foilorn,
unless il Is like my neis hbor scross the
,treet. Whose eyes ara Gimmed with tears,
which she has wept when others sept and
whose windows are always hsavi V blinded,
and vino ere, ps IN al d out with an air IS
ii she h d been gu lty OF a crime. Poor soul,
my heer; aches Ter her, because, Nell, she
has done nothing only, years ago, when 3
flush slept on her cheek like the heart of q
she'll and pu, pie gloss hid in the waves
Of her hair, anu her foot was light, and
her waist trim, and her Laugh sweet; she
YVES wooed aud won by a man who pro-
fessed to love her, aud who probably did,
after fashion.
He was poor, but the woman didn't care
for that, she loved him with that peculiar
affection which knows No heat, no cold, no
pain or sorrow, only that he was her world
hig and round, and not a Joy was beyond.
She helped him she encouraged HIM al
| ways, when the battle OF life see ned almost
100 hard for him to fight, and after awhile
shen they began to prosper she tried her
best 10 keep up in everything that belonged
to her position and to always dress well
| because be liked to have her do so, and to
beauIify her home with pretty things and
cultivate choice flowers, and then, alas
he ought to have done everything for her
long years of self sacrificing care to make
her happy, he failed, failed miserably and
VT mt away out OF her life with younger, a
smarter, but not one thoussndth part as
good woman, and left her TO bsar the
shame of the. broken life, the heart sick
ness alone, utterly alOne-for no children
| had ever called her mother and she had
not even divided her love Tor her husband
by adopting child as some women would
have done.
There was a divorce, much against her
will, but because friends interfered, and to-
day her home and her life Is desolate for
| the sake OF The man who, when her youth
had BEEN speut in his service, left her for
The smiles of a wanton. said to you light
| ly but a moment ago, Sect married" but
oh, NIL, pray that If you do, no such q
dreaCt ul thing may happen to you as has
happ ned to my neighbor across the way
Ard now while / think of it, is it not ter
rible that man could be guilty of such
deed as the one have jus, related? VIII
SAYS, "Such an incident in the life of man
amounts to nothing more than the infatua-
| ton of the moment, and that a man who
has loved his vile, as he should love her.
never quite loses ii and will los when his
passion shall have sp mt ITS novel force to
return to her." But say, man who loves
his wife as he should love her, will never
wound and torture her body and soul by
an "InfatuatiOn," or whatever it may be
termed, for anothe an should not be per-
mitt ID to return to he.
/ do not know what | should do were
the case | have JUS s,oken of, my own,
but feel that after my laith in Will had
been killed, Will would be dead to me and
all my lie current won be filled with
wrecks OF happiness ani # hope and every
thing which now makes , 80 beautiful. and
the "Do'ly" you have own would never
be as In the past. H,,.s 'OdlI | train NV
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