The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-30
ADAMS CENTER, N. Y, !
May the 18th. (

IClITS dIF
am studying law in the Office of Judge Chap.n,
and my present income is somewhat limited,
but | though would write to you and ask
your kind advice in a matter which has given
| ness. | am in love with a young lady
here and / think she is in love with
| me. l met her first at the Grassland
| picnic which went to Henderson last 4th
| OF July. She sw0oned from the excessive
] heat and / carried her home and thus il was
our love began. have escorted her to all the
/ sOciableS and TO our debating society, and at
| the strawberry festival, which is coming off
next week, hope TO have the engagement an
nOunced. But before | do / write YOU this let
ter in order to satisfy myself that 1 am doing
/ right by myself and by her. She is seventeen
] and hall years old, and has blue eyes and
/ blondine hair, and is graduate of our high
/ school, but her father has often said that she
/ Will not know her own mind for several years
| TO come. / know that her parents want
| her TO lead a frivolous society lie
] for several years and then to marry
| wealth. which will never have. Now, love
| her and | think that she loves me, only, on my
| present income, until | can practice at the bar
| and fight my own way to the summit OF for
| tune and fame, L cannot hope to support her in
! queenly style ] do not see why, as her mother
| already has two bOarders, could not be one
OF them, even if i were her daughters husband
and write to ask you if you do not think that
| Will be the best way out of our difficulty. En-
| closed please find 2cent stamp, and, thanking
| you for your kindness, l am yours rs'py,
| j. OLIVER KANE.
! P. ST. write TO you in strict confidence.
This is a complicated case and one re-
| quiring a great delicacy OF discrimination
and nicely of Judgment to determine, but
l am certain that if you take my advice in
| a large allopathic hunk it will reach the
right spot, J. Oliver. and do you much
good
Your certainty that you love her and
| your uncertainty that she loves you lead
me to believe that you have been back
| ward in coming forward. OF course | can
| readily understand that your complicated
/ struggles with a course of subpoena, GER
| tiorari, mandamus, habeas corpus, duces-
/ tecum, nolle pros, posse cOmitatus, reple
! win, nulla bona, Gle lunatico inquirendo,
| in hoe signo vinces, L Pluribus Unum,
! Erin go bragh, de minimis non curat lex,
| quo warTanto, ne eXigeat and other de-
/ lights OF your learned profession, when
| combined with moonlight, alabaster
| cheeks and the melting sapphire eyes of a
| golden-haired girl, are apt to produce a
/ species of mental malaria and sentimental
| indigestion well calculated TO lower the
| tone of the system of any young and am
| bilious citizen of Adams Centre, n. Y.
Nevertheless, it appears 10 me that
| ample time has been afforded you since
that happy and yet lamentable picnic
which you describe to have grasped her
| young affections gently, yet firmly, led
rose-winged love a captive to your manly
| charms, and in response to the hoarse
masculine ardor of your devotion, learned
from her twittering lips that she loved
| you in return.
have trembled, ]. Oliver, many, many
times since reading your sad, soulful
| epistle, to think that perhaps, even after
that mad 4th OF July episode and the long
| course of sociable gayeties and silent kerr
osene vigils in which you have since IN
| dulged, your only own girly girl may be
| leading you through labyrinth of bam-
boozle, toying with the noblest of your
emotions and merely dancing like a little
careless glittering mote through the broad
! shafts of the sunshine of your tropical
worship. Woman! o woman! exquisite,
adorable, red-lipped woman, inconstant as
the changeful moon, and-er-
But this is irrelevant, J. Oliver. Let US
/ take it for granted that she does love you
/ and that your two souls are like earth's
/ lone hemisphere fused into one-wth
/ safety fuse. Let us assume that within a
/ week after you have perused this sober
and patriarchal reply to your inquiry, you
will again revisit the fower-decked scene
| OF the picnic swoon, and in some mellow
moonlighted hour when the wells OF purple
evening are softly dropping upon the
! scene and the poisoning branches above
| you and around you are full of the folding
| and futtering of weary wings; when
! the early FREELY Jewels the gloom
with its ftful torch; when the
whippoorwill shrills from the distant
| copSe and the drowsy rooster clucks a
| goodnight to his sleepy hsrem and com
| poses himself to rufiied dreams-there,
under the broad canopy spangled with
| glory, YOU will take her soft, unresisting
| hand in yours; you will murmur the ire
mendous question there will be silence;
slowly and coyly her dainty head, with its
| lovelocks tossed awry, will sink upon your
breast, and then the young-eyed stars will
| gaze with rapture upon your first, long
and unutterable betrothal kiss All me J.
| Oliver, that moment will be one for which
| you would not take Sl7.
But this is not all. In your present
frame of mind you look. forward to that as
| the end, whereas TO my cool and some
what cynical eye it is but the beginning
| From what you have told me of her
parents, of their desires, ambitions and
| purposes, and of the calm and somewhat
sordid way in which they seem to regard
your advances, | am inclined 10 think that
| your future will have few clouds and
perhaps a light sprinkling OF wet rain.
l regret to say that | cannot discuss
this subject except in brief, cursory
and unsatisfactory manner, but it
appears to me that your proposition to
take up board with the old folks after your
marriage is not one which will be con-
ducive to unalloyed bliss. There is a GER
tain business element inserted in your
| cup of Joy which may possibly spoil the
flavor After year or two you may find
! that with your enlarging prospects you
would like to change your hotel, vary
| your bill of fare, occupy room with
southern instead OF a northwestern expos
/ ure, try a new brand of Persian powder, or
/ Introduce some other little modification in
| your domestic arrangements to add to
your comfort. Under ordinary conditions
| this is very easy but where the inercenary
interests are intimately commingled with
the connubial you may find it difficult. 1t
gives me pain, j. Oliver, to inform you
that upon the whole I think yours is
desperate case. You hold a ticket in
lottery which has not been drawn, and as
nearly rs / can cipher it out you have but
q slight chance for even an approximation.
But perhaps ann anticipating. earn
estly trust that at the coming strawberry
festival of which you speak all will go
well. But it seems to me that instead of