The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-11

DEAR SIR-Your sentiments as ex.
pressed in your ad. pleased me greatly.
1t is refreshing to find peraon deliber-
ately laying his plans to keep honest.
We pray, LEAD US not into tempta-
tion," and then very likely rush into 1t
with the utmost heedlessness. AZ soci-
ETY. is conducted now it must be out OF
the reach OF an ordinary salary; and
careful person who values his good
name and wants to do right should
oftentimes foreawear it's siren voice.
Not every one, though, would be firm
enough to abstain, or sufficiently
thoughtful to discover a substitute. l
need not remark in this phase OF the
world that man needs the culture OF
true womanhood just as certainly as
woman needs that OF high
minded manhood. Men in the
past, notwithstanding they have
monopolized women have yet failed to
recognize her special gifts because I'M
like their own. l take it that the wo-
man was not made for the man any
more than the man for the woman but
that each was made to be helpme.es,
the one to the other, and thst only
when monopolization ceases and true
cooperation begins shall we have any
thing like a high type of civilization.
Now that have lsed the word monop-
olization, may as we'll confess at once
that | am decided anti-monopclist.
Doubtless having learned this fact you
will not care to correspond with me. Tor
men as rule, think, like that sort OF
women whom they can thoroughly mo-
nopolize whose love for them will
render their womanhood &c putty in
their hands; and, though the time has
arrived when women before marriage
can use her conscience and obey her
sense of right. she is still required to
lay aside her conscience with her name
after marriage. That is why am plan
ming to be girl bachelor and do not
mean to enter the marriage relation at
all. But think l shall like to CORE
spond with you for the same reason that
you desire correspondence-that is for
general culture. Very respectfully
yours, ROB Roy,
Lockbox 81.
1t WAS the very next day that a right
manly letter came in reply to Rae's ven
ture. That young lady was simply de-
lighted with her new correspondent and
not to be outdone by the unknown gal
liant knight she SAT down immediately
to form a reply. She found her second
attempt quite easy; and when she had
finished she remarked to her mother,
who was sitting by busy with some
needlework:
Now. mother, that am getting in
tereated in my correspondent, mean to
find out who he is."
"And how do you mean to accom-
plish that feat?" asked the surprised
mother.
why. l shall use the means nv
father used when he wanted to find out
anything not easy OF attainment. l
shall employ skillful detective. Some
men, you know, can write like angels
and act like fiends."
How do l know but that he has al
ready monopolized half dozen women
until he has demoralized them and is
now ready for fresh victim? mean
to find out his whole back history
back ancestry as we'll"
"l've nothing to say, Rae, only hope
you will let nothing interfere with our
being girl bachelors one of these days."
That's not likely, mother mine" re-
piled Rae, in her firm, candid tones.
AS this is emphatically q newspaper
story it must draw speedily to close.
1t will only be necessary to state that
the many details dug up by the detec-
tive formed neat, typewriter book and
was eminently satisfactory; so likewise
was the correspondence, which from the
first initiated the daily newspaper in
frequency and regularity. 1t was the
one who began this delightful mode of
obtaining culture who took measures to
bring it to close. He was Satisfied, he
said, that his fair correspondent was a
young woman of worth and ability from
whom be should always wish to obtain
culture; and to be sure OF that point
he was DESTROYS of assuming with her
the marriage relation. To forward that
end he would gladly lop off his pleasant
vices and share his salary with her. By
close economy they could manage to
live comfortably, he thought; or in case
they failed they could retire to his farm
and see what two intelligent, thrifty
young people could make of that.
Rae's laugh was very merry indeed
when she had finished reading this let
ter to her mother, while she remarked
as she noted the foreboding look on the
beloved countenance:
Don't be worried, mother mine, for
You are to be strictly in it, you know.
Ills mObH6f uleu Wueu 06 WAS porn anu
he has wanted mother 80 much; then
you have always wanted son-what
could be fner?"
"Then you mean to accept him,
Rae?"
Eyes, indeed and be as generous
with him as he with me. l shall lop-
as he calls it-off my foolish fads and
divide my income with him."
A few daye later Rae, having business
at the postotfice, called at that place
and herself unlocked the lockbox de-
voted to this correspondence. Alb, there
was her daily letter, and not caring any
longer to maintain secrecy as to this
singular friendship, she broke the seal
and proceeded to examine the contents.
But first she would see how be closed.
Was it fate, or what was it that in the
nick of time managed to watt in a
strong current OF air which swept the
tell-tale sheet from Rae's hand right
across the room to the feet OF young
gentlemen of leonine aspect, who was
busily engaged in reading letter writ
ten in a charming feminine hand. 1t
was her hero. He was wholly oblivious
to all about him, and there seemed moth
ing for Rae to do but simply to go and
obtain her property as unblushingly as
possible. She walked with her usual
firm carriage to the fatal spot; she
stopped gracefully for the missing
link" when the gentleman, aa I suppose
fate would have it again, finished rasd-