Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-12
YOUNG LADIES' LETTERS.
A Glance at One Of the Writers In All the
Agony of Composition.

| A Glance at One OF the Writers In All the
Agony of Composition.
1t is generally admitted that women
are better letter-writers than men.
Writing a letter is thought to cost
them very little trouble; they are sup
| posed to drop into a chair before a
desk, dip a pen in the ink-stand, and
scribble off any number OF bright,
chatty pages almost as readily as they
could relate the same news by word of
mouth.
In many cases this is no doubt true.
A young lady writing to her intimate
friend seldom experiences any difficulty
in composition. She hastily dates her
epistle april somethingth, or simply,
Saturday" or "eight p. m, just be-
fore the party" and then dashes at
once into her narrative, and scarcely
| stops for breath until she has finished
| four sheets, and crossed the last page
| She then reads it rapidly over, dots
| few is. sprinkles in several extra ex-
clamation points, draws two or three
more very black lines under her most
explosive adjectives, folds it neatly,
and puts it into the envelope. She is
about to seal it, but pauses a moment
before this decisive act to pull it out
again, and add another half-sheet filed
with postscripts. Then she returns il
to the envelope, seals it, adds piece
of omitted information in very fine
writing on the wrong side of the en-
velope, and the task is accomplished
Her demeanor, however, when writ
Ing a formal note or a business letter is
very different. She seats herself with
a sigh and a countenance expressive of
misery. She dips her pen into the ink
a great many times before putting it
to paper; she gazes thoughtfully at the
ceiling, and bites the tip of the PEN
holder. She gives herself a respite to
find blotter, and then another to go
IN search OF postage stamps.
She looks at the morning paper to
get the date, and after she has written
IL down, is seized with the misgiyino
that perhaps 1T was yesterdays paper
she looked at, and goes back to make
sure. She writes nearly a page, and
then suddenly decides that the big ID
OF dear is written dreadfully, and that
she can t possibly let it go like that.
She begins again.
Then she thinks she should have said
My dear instead of Just Dear"
and she tries third time. This time
she succeeds, although she refers twice
to the dictionary and once to a book of
etiquette, before she has finally signed
and sealed and laid the troublesome
mlsslve away for the post-otfice.
She says, when she talks on the SUBJ
Ject OF letter-writing, that she is a
very poor hand at it-except, of course.
when she writes to people she likes.
ana who like her; and that is so easy
1t doesn't count.-London lid Bits,
Nurses should remind children
"hl'e having the meat and vegetable
part OF thoir dinner that pudding is
coming This may seem simple, and
not worth mentioning, but it is most
essential. after all, for from the farm
aceous food the great bulk of the diet
should come. | think that there
should nearly always be good nu-
tritlous pudding to follow; and here
again we have got to ring the changes
on (say) rice, tapioca, bread, sage.
corn-meal. macaroni. etc. The pud-
ding should, of course, be made with
milk, and well-sweetened. -Familv
Doctor, IN IPOnnan's World.