The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-06-07
por,rrcs AND POKE BoNNErs.
Clara Bell Ii as Pupil own South
Who Can Write. Both About Pol
files aud Poetry.


If you wont think L am just too
awfully dreadful for anything to stop
you from printing, Pr tell you my
opinion on the political question of
the day-and all the girls agree with
me too-We've been reading the
newspapers, and the Chronicle espe
cially said this was going to be very
important year in politics and we are
very much excited over the point IN
| statue quo (if that is not correct please
fix it, but l guess it is alright, for
l always took high mark on Latin
| while I was at the Seminary
I think all that in the papers
about the tariff reform is very i'm
i portant move in our country, don't
YOU? If they succeed | know there
is going to be dreadful crisis about
something and l am just dying to
know how it is going to turn out in
the end. When they do carry the
bill before the House next February
| Chat is the time Congress meets be-
lieve, anyway it did the year | was
in Washington, and oh dear! it was
too exciting to hear the bills read. |
didn't understand quite all of it. but
| it was too exciting, and oh, my . the
Senators looked dreadtully set on
something and held caucus meet
ings-I just held my breath, and dear
me some of the Senators were too hand
some to live, and SO nice
NY, that is long parenthesis, ex-
cuse me for wandering away from my
subject, but / just wanted you to know
that I've been to Congress when il
was session and understand all about
politics and how they do or else you
might think like Charlie Brown
said the other night, that government
affairs were out of woman's sphere
and she could not understand tariff
and revenue and so on ad infa,atum.
But we are not going to be like
| flowers and "v aste our sweetness or
the desers air. (don't you think thai
comes in appropriately, [ just adore
sMoure's poems) ard let our country
rush into something dreadful, mos
likely another war without irving
our brains Cor you might print i
cerebellum if you think that would
sound be.ter) to help our law makers
I've been reading "Among the Law
Makers" in st. Nicholas and / thinl
that gives you splendid idea how i
is. l always read such articles to keel
posted. Charlie Brown does make MT
so cross He said we ought not to tall
anything but fashion and brio a-brat
or we get beyond our depth. | CUES
/ changed his mind about that tho
when he asked me who was going t.
| fill the Gubernational chair.
told him en- the spot that Boyd anc
Stedman, and somebody they calle'
| Brer Brewer were all voting for it
but it wasn't decided yet who woul'
win. Of course that isn't as interest
! ing to read up on in Harper's Bazaa
as what kind of hats will be worn thi
summer. 1 hope it will be Swis
Pokes, but then I know that it is jus
as important, SO I keep myself wei
posted.
l don't profess to know everythin
when it comes to novelties and | wan
to ask you confdentially what is tn
style and material of a Gubernatris
chair. 1t must be quite the latest.
see the Governor has adopted it fo
his private office. While / think {
it, may / not suggest, Mr.. Editor
wonuldn't it be a good idea to prir
an extra edition of your paper just 6
soon as it is decided who is going to b
the next Governor. My nerves are o
such tension, Queenie Jones think
she is going to get ahead of me b
wearing something quite chic at tt
Governors ball, but l am just deter
mined that she shant.
o, you must excuse me again, | al
! afraid you will think l am not yer
serious minded and cant keep to tt
point, and I-know you are criticism
me just too awfully for anything, b,
that doesn't make much difference {
you never could guess from my mon
| ogram or incognito, whichever it
} who | am.
/ was just going to ask you, don
you hope the internal revenue will
! repealed on cigars and cigarettes. Yo
see I am free trader. Then Charli
,, Brown can't say three times awee
that he can't help. smoking when tt
; boys "set -'em up" do think youn
E men q don't imagine that you al
very young, Mr. Editor use such a
, awfully lot of slang and then du
i slang school girly. But | reckon son
of the homo genius will open the
eyes when they know that this polit
cal article was written by women.
. "Divinely tall and most divinely fail
Isn't that a pretty description | ju
dote ON Browning. Are you fond
poetry? 1 think Ella Wheeler Wilce
is too sweet to live, but l devel
t books anyway, my teachers alwa
: said that spoke for itself in my essay
:, You must not think that egotistie
/ for it isn't one bit.
: I've just finished cute novel, Il
"Duchesse" IT'S real nice, 1 kno
!. you would ike it. I'm going to res
"Ivanhoe" next.
2 o. please excuse pe again, inde'
2 you must not think ] can't keep n
) mind on the subject per capita, but
4 know from your paper that you are
5 nice, comfortable old married ma
3 and l don't mind talking to you o.
9 bit.
o I guess I'll write another polite
8 article for your paper before long
this takes. forgot to tell you in {
beginning that you can have this al
e way, even if you are not able to pa
!. all it is worth. / shall not mind thu
: as I would like to be real live a
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