The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-06-02

1 rectly after Catherine Cole III the
Times Democrat. and write letter to
the people most want to address.
You see. make this little acknowl-
edgement ut the beginning 10 save
time and trouble. know you would
find out the piece OF plagiarism any
how, and it wouid griexe each of You
to death To have TO telhyour best fris.nd
about it. and for her chllm to have to
tell her next best friend about. it and
SO on ad inliilitum. therefore. in order
10 prevent such painful duties I here
with write myself plaii villain on. this
score. and proceed with tie letter. OF
ceurse,all commpnications from, girls to
girls are strictly confidential. Jane's
forty page budget to Fanny is for Fam
ny $ eyes alone. Now then, this letter
is supposed to be very private, and con-
sequentlv, in il. can ask any qucs-
tions please; pray then. don't think
me forward when tImidly inquire of
you: ..Have you ever been in lovep"
ain. love!'' you exclaim-but beg
Iyou to say no more. don't want
or expect an answer from YOU. No
body but confirmed, hardened old
cynic,. not even dear. tender-hearted,
satirical Thackray, would put such a
question to dozen girls and wait for
an answer. No body, / say, but a
cynic who wished to test the ingenious
ness of the human mind. and to find
ont how many routes people can take
in order not to arrive at the truth,
would ask such a question. Now. I'm
not cynic Cat least hope I'm not)
and therefore, like jesting PLATE, 'i
will not wait for an answer" Be-
sides, this waiting for an answer
would be extremely foolish. Every
body knows that a girl that has been in
love never will tell it, and one that has
not. will always say she has. We can
easily imagine the woman that does not
realize the meaning of a deep, true
affection. delightedly saying, Eyes, in
deed, I've been in love lots and lots of
times. Last summer John Homespun
and had mp tremendous case, and
we actually thought our lives were
blIghtede when papa said we couldn't
marry. but afterwards, Dick Cityboy
came to town and forget John was
living. Dick rushed me more than
John ever did--then he-"Ah, well,
Miss Cog aette or Miss Braggart, what
ever your name may be. you need to
harp. no longer on the mouldeling
string. ] know yonr heart has never
been touched, and, as / like not to
hear s.this word love. which grey boards
call divine. desecrated by lips that
are young and should be very pure, /
will be rude enough to interrupt your
sentence; and, as lose sight of your
face Mademoiseae, and on that think of
your quiet little friend, something tells
me not to ask her the question at all.
Those sad. pretty brown eyes warn me
that it would be cruel; they seem to
say as distinctly as word: Among
the eighteen OF twenty pages which
have been turned in that book of life.
there are unhappy some two
or three all blistered with tears
and yellowed with the stains .of
pressed flowers, and, that it would
be sort of Vandalism to expose them
to the garish light of curiosity. But.
mercy, this letter is too rambling, I
must stop short. and bring myself to
! the point. Well then to begin again.
"Haye You ever been in lover" For
the sake of letting my advice come in
smoothly and naturally, will take for
granted the answer is an unanimous
No alright. friends.if you haven't
then / tell you the very best thing
you can do is to Immediately fall
in love- with .whomp" do you ask.
Nay, not with any person whatsoever,
| but with an idea Fall in love with
some kind of work with domestic
duties, with art, with music, with sew
ing, with vocal, with literature, in
short, With any thing in heaven above
or the earth beneath, or the waters un-
l-der the earth; that is. with anything
except the ..Woman's Rights" cause.
/ charge you to abjure that subject as
you. value your own soul and the
peace of your fellow beings!
And what do people want to
work in hot weather for You respond.
/ answer, ..For pleasure.
We all know there is hope if not
happiness in a journey, no matter how
dusty the road may be, if there is a
pleasant goal at the end of it.