Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-02
vOUNG LADIES' LETTERS.

A Glance at One of tho 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
a few is, sprinkles in several extra ex-
clamation points, draws two or three
more very black lines under her most
explosive adiectives, folds it neatly,
and puts it into the envelope. She is
about to seal it, but pauses moment
before this decisive act to pull it out
again, and add another half-sheet filed
with pestscripts. Then she returns it
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 formal note or a business letter is
very different. She seats herself with
a sigh and countenance expressive OF
misery. She dips her pen into the ink
a great many times before putting 1T
to paper; she gazes thoughtfully at the
ceiling, and bites the tip of the PEN
holder. She gives herself respite to
find a 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
it down. is seized with the misgiving
that perhaps it was yesterdays paper
she looked at, and goes back to make
sure. She writes nearly page, and
then suddenly decides that the big d
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 book OF
etiquette, before she has finally signed
and sealed and laid the troublesome
1 missive away for the post-ofice.
She says, when she talks on the sub
ject of letter-writing, that she is a
/ very poor hand atit-except, of course,
| when she writes to people she likes,
| and who like her; and that is so easy
/ it doesn't count.-London It'd Bits
Nurses should remind children
/ while having the meat and vegetable
/ part of their dinner that pudding 1s
| 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 a good nu-
. tritious pudding to follow; and here
again we have got to ring the changes
On (say) rice, tapioca, bread. sago,
.eern-meal. macaroni. ETC. The pud-
ding should, of course, be made with
milk, and MISUNDERSTANDING
Il Doctor, in WonGn's World