St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-22
A SAD. SADCaSE-

! creolt lis statement thus made with all
solemnlty, there is here spread before
| the great army of lovers who make up
| the world a communication which. for
! simple pathoS, sincerity and primitive
sense of Justice, is uneXcelled by any
| thing since ROUSSEAU exhibited his
| quivering human heart to the general
| gaze.
Editor St Paul Globe Dear Sir:-After my
| Respects TO you would most Respectfully ask
! you for a favor which is this | have been a
| corresponding with a Lady of one of your
| counties tor over year with a view TO mat
! nmony about 20 or 50 miles from ST. Paul
| She gave me Encouragement from the first
! and requested me 10 come to sec her which |
! did last Nov. She then promised to marry
! me and since then her letters show that she
| intended to keep her promise but in Feby.
! she wrote she would never marry me and i'll
| same says l Will never be your wife. My rea-
! son Tor taking this course is | want TO let the
| good People of Mimi. know how she has
treated me so no other man will fall a victim
! to her Prey. She is - years old and am 81
! informed her of my age i'll first letter. She
! SAID my age would be no objection Sent her
| good References from st. LOUIS and also
| from Bank which | can send you if you wish
| notified her of my intention. She toled me
| to go ahead If | was Determined to Publish
| them that could not hurt her. If you do
! Publish them will also send her Picture to
/
you her own letters which bears her own Sig
nature but you must return them to me as
Soon as you copy them. If She and her
friends know that letters will be Published in
your Papers think they will try and influence
you not TO Publish them | will in the mean
time Subscribe for your paper Please send me
copy of your weekly.
Old man, you put on the shoulders of
this paper heavy burden. When your
cyclone burst OH this Office its entire
staff stood on its head, and in the en-
thusiaSm of delight exclaimed: "Hur-
rah! hurrah, hurrahr' Our matri-
monial editor, whose duty ii is to wrestle
with matters OF this kind, at once took
to drink, thing he was never known
to do before, and has left an incompe-
tent and inexperienced substitute to
tackle your case, which surely must be
tackled You have done the GLOBE a
good deal of harm in this way, but it
bears you no grudge. 1t thanks you.
You are public benefactor. You and
the mob of gentlemen who made such
short work of the Italian malefactorS in
New Orleans, the other day, together
have furnished most important con-
tributiOn to the study of sociology. You
have proved that the cave man is not
extinct yet. You need not subscribe
for the WEEKLY GLOBE. We shall
send it to you, postage prepaid, for moth
ing and forever. The GLOBE is in your
debt, and if you will write it one more
letter of this kind you will be entitled
to the daily edition on the same terms.
1t ill becomes this paper to criticise
one of your age and vigorous methods.
but it would seem that you have made a
mistake in your plan of campaign, and
have yourself to thank, at least in part,
for your present sad plight. You have
taken your view of matrImony' at too
long range. The distance, seventy or
eighty miles, which you give, is i'll wan
ton violation of all the rules on such
subjects laid down in the text books.
An epiStOlary assault, too, it may be
said, without any reflection on the post
al department, is a dangerous thing for
man who spells no better than you
do. But once having started on
this plan, you Numbered sadly last
November when you went to
see her. You should have stuck
1esolutelY to your original tactics and
fought it out on that line. Nobody
ought to swap horses when crossing a
river. Nothing impresseS a woman so
unfavorably in a lover as instability.
This vacillatiOn on your part probably
made the young Woman'S relatives eX-
press doubts as to whether your habits
were steady, and may have made her
herself wonder whether you were not
giddy and unreliable, and whether after
you had sown your wild oats you would
settle down quietly to the exactions of
domestic life. 1t is fatal to love if one
of the high contracting parties gets
criticiSing the other III such fashion.
Love is based on mutual confidence.
Your methods introduced the worm of
doubt. You ought to have consulted
the GLOBE before you began. 1t could
have helped you then. But now it is
afraid that ali it can do is to console
you.
The GLOBE is sorry, but you evil
IDENTIFY love this false woman to dis
traction. Your anxiety to have her
picture and her letters published, so
that the world may see and admire
them, shows this. Seldom in the history
of the tender passion has there been
such an example of answering devo-
ton, even after final defeat. In spite
of her faults, she must be remarkable
woman to be able to convert her worsted
lovers into friends so perSistently loyal.
1t is too bad that you have lost her, but
we guess that you have. The only thing
left for you is TO find such relief as is
,Noec; IN 10 do no ri 4 annnc Thara
are not many sources of refuge from
sorrows of this kind, and none OF them
are very attractive. The subject has
been Investigated very thoroughly,
however, and such remedies as there
are are very well known. A poet named
OvIDIUs NAso wrote book about them
hundreds of years ago, and, although
good many people have tried to supple
ment his catalogue, in the light
of modern science, very little that
is new has been discovered. You
are undoubtedly familiar with OvID's
work, but lest you have mislaid your
copy during the excitement of your re-
cent trying experience, when you have
no doubt been breaking all the furni-
ture about the house, the GLOBE will
venture to tell you that, if you would
forget the cruel jilt, you can take your
choice between suicide, drink, or falling
| in love with some other woman. That
| is what OVID says, and all the text
books to which we have before referred
! agree with him.
The GLOBE puts these frightful RENE
dies in the order of responsiveness. 1t
mas no doubt that you would rather die
than take to drink, and rather take to
drink than fall in love with another
woman. On the other hand, death is
the most effective drug, because you
will be likely to forget her entirely if
you resort to it. Drink is pretty nearly
as good, however, if used in the proper
way. If you drink enough every night