Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-28

you laugh to see the way she maltreats tam
BOURNE She came and kissed ne onct but
took II OF with some wart medicine | had on
hand at the time
What would you do, MIR. Nye, if you was me?
1 have no home at all. This is Just as saw a
what-you-may- call-t on earth. After what /
nave saw OF marriage you can see that look
upon IL askance, and yet believe could make
some GOOD man happy. Do you not think SO?
10 you Know such man? Or If not a real
good man, one that could mold?
You must meet good many different people
one time and another especially Young men of
your own age. How would it do for you to
throw them in my way? i send carte de visite.
also carte blanche; also picture of myself
taxing 4th OF July held here. do my hair
diferent now, and have quit wearing prunella
SHOES except in hot weather. Friends say |
have greatly improved since this picture was
struck off.
was never sick a day in my life, and can
eat anything that is set before me- am fond
of children and buckwheat cakes
Tell me what should do to escape this Iiv
ing death in the home nest What do Won
think OF advertising for a correspondent? |
hate to write my soul throbs to a man of whom
have never saw. Do you know what to do to
remove superfiuous hair? | am afraid that n
mustache is budding on my face, and though |
do not mind ii now, know it will mortify me
when get old. If there is anything gives me
pain it is too see an old lady going down to
her grave in an iron gray mustache.
Write 10 me, Mr.. Nye, if you can, for am
practically an orphan, and if were TO take a
wrong step now after writing to you, if you do
not reply, you would never forgive yourself
would you? Yours with love,
LAURA MCSwELLAS WoERTZ
L. 81 understand voice culture and en-
balming; also interior decorations and butch
erlng. l could make some mans home all
aglow with gladness if had his love and an
order on the store. Please do not cast this let
ter aside with petuant exclamation, but man
age somehow TO get my address into the paper
and | will knit You big handsome clouded
blue zetfer tppet for next winter. Can you
judge ones nature by the handwrite?
L. NJ w.
DEAR LAURA-Your letter regarding
penmanship and also tackling obstruse
questions regarding the great why, and
laying hold on the mysterious because,
was duly received through the personal
influence of Mr.. Wanamaker.
| hardly know how to answer you
fully and succinctly, and | would hate
TO write you and then feel afterward
that the letter was not succinct. /
would Judge from your letter that you
are naturally full of sparkle and chaste
gayety, but had been kept back and
thrown down, and i'll fortune has, as |
may say, had you in the door, Excuse
plain words, for am plain man, plain
and simple. make a speciality of both
of these features.
Your letter and composition would in
dictate that you could make some good
man deliriously happy if you would.
You would have to use Judgment of
course about letting this happiness
dawn on him too suddenly. You should
sort of mentally unfold to him day by
day, as it We're, so that he can get ac-
cllmated. That would be my advice
Do not let him mentally founder him
self. 1t might give him brain collie, and
nothing is more disagreeable than for
an intellectual bride to have to walk
the floor of nights with groom who
has overloaded his thinker and has acid
ity and water brash on the brain.
Be careful, Laura, to dawn on him
easy, like an October morning. Do not
burst on him like the unexpected return
of an American husband who said he
was going to be away all night, but
steal in ON his darkened soul like a foot
pad in York state. Sort of grow on
him, like a beautiful lichen or edible
fungus. Cling to him, as Deuteronomy
would say, like pup to a root.
You are of a kindly nature, and would
also shine in the household. | would say
that, Judging by your handwriting, you
would make good jell cake with frost
ing on it, if reverses came. Also that
you would turn out good clinker built
pie, while in the matter of needlework
and rag carpets you would arouse the
envy and malice of the great maestros
and artists.
The acoustics of your rag carpets
would awaken a new interest in eXplo-
sives. You would not be content with
initiating nature i'll your art You would
make foliage a good deal greener than
nature has ever dared to do, and your
sunsets would be redder and more in
temperate, think
But you must not be cast down, Laura.
Certainly | would encourage you to be
brave. Good men are scarce and shy
now, but when spring opens you will
hear their baritone hOnk as they 90
northward, Do not get too near them
while melting, for they are timid and
easily startled, but watch your chance
when they are grazing and possibly dur
ing the sucker season you may land one,
for men as rule are not so able as they
let on to be.
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