Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-07
A CORRESPONDENCE.

"Tho managers oi So. jacobs hospital
solicit Old newspapers and magazines foI
tho entertainment Of their sick and con.
ynlcsccnt'
In rrspansc 10 this ndvcrtlscmcnt In one
Of the most widely read newspapers In -
there cnmc daily 10 the above named in.
Hitution great variety ~ publications
ono day thorc appeared among tho lost
newspaper with thUg words written uu.
n tho margin. II w. - you a very good
morning and right speedy recovery
then tho full address N the writer, Miss
louisa Lobstodt, . North street This
greeting clloltcd n few days lutor tho fol.
lowing answer.
20 ihcrc IL really In tho bright. happy world
outside one kind euul who hsG % thought ~
spare Tor Ne slHlt onrsl ] am tho unfur'urH'g
ono who hus received your rfa Ting aud lapc
that your kind wish will conn lH gTrfIN.l tll
that time not very distant I f'H.l leave tiii
Ilaco entirely rpstural 60 health " sou
hayu ever been seriously i'l COZ ltYrsE.F Un.
JurOd such pain aa { Au NV "rur 90
will certainly heed tNn t.uUr.t on FHUrIuyN.
ia aul not rect slt fled t.f.h the few words
u kindness which have uaIr tHo s1 laIHr. II
thoro were only rImU oHrs'H'Hl soul i.0" iy
whom I could speak ffuUy or wish whom !
might chat little now Aul tlHn' But IIf
now there IL 30 one here WHO can help o. uIFi
away The long. weary hUurat and 90 Deg 700
again not % lHtmn huuo iu vain iHr hn ."rr
In tho meantime, with k.nl8st ryg1rda. ] 1m,
yours gratefully nuIuA WiiNfua
In this way % correspondence was begun
which worry soon developed into most IN.
tercstlng one Tor both young ladi.a Do
brought ont lively interchange ~
thought Iottor4 flow hack md fufth, in
which tho two Impaired 20 one another
uufUsoryodly their respective Circum.
stances and expectations
Louisa Loh-todt wrote her new friend
that sho was quito alone IN th1 world that
she had q position, NJ small pay, In n largo
confectionery shop, where, working from
early morning until lato nt night, with
only n short rest nt noon, she was quito
tired out. TINT hor employer made such
unreasonable demands upon his help that
ho was much dislihci. -ho wrote that she
had few acpuainiancrs ~ hor own ago md
no nal friend, and sho congratulated her.
coli that she had conceived tho idon u
sending that greeting through tho nows.
paper and putting her name 10 II, nl.
though that last was rather risky, What
n her uddrUsl had fallen into wrong hnndsl
sho hoped also, sho wrote IN ono oi hcr
later lcttcrl, some dny to ind time to visit
Miss Bertha at tho hospital and No 10 boz
como personally acquainted with her
Bctthn Willmcn IN tho meantime TO
piled To these letters In tho snmo frank
hearty way, Sho wrote that her home was
IN H., and that thrru months before thn
had como TO u. Tor tho purpose II earning
her living M teacher II music and tho
lanpuh2va In tho course ~ few weeks
she had fnllon 40, mud. ut her earnest r..
quest, tho people with whom shr boarded
had brought her hero o. the hospital
"llow happy II mnl,ct me to think l ana
soon 10 scc youi do not doubt that wo
shall become tho dearest friends, and yet
am going To ask you to defer your visit
for little while Aud why1 You will
think mo foolish, vain, Well call II u
feminine weakness. aud got before my IN.
moss ] was always lUing cunplimontod
upon my pretty fresh. healthy looks and
you can readily understand how five weeks
at severe Illness would change ono. Who
knows but you would ho utterly disgustrd
with mo when want M much tomato ns
favorable hn impression hs possible upon
my nov found friend Just as soon M l
am somewhat hettor and "a little moro like
my old self will write you To- come
delightful n0ws that sho hnpod very short,
Is To leave tho hospital. eutir,ly recovered
IIcr nrs, visIt ,,oitiI D.. O., i.r ,I.g,r moo
friend, hut bcforr shp could IL, this ~,
would Layo 10 unku "A very. very sgrIUu.
confession. Amid prrtrsinilors of tbq
tio,uest estppru and ioyo,n Lpr ry,tt matt
.ho begged Miss L.nuisn To pronIso her ono
thinr I'M nly,uc,-ylg tint whatever tbo
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never was beT1hh inufn 'uIpfis'u ~ net
ITO than AZ the answer which followed
Immediately upon this Thus II ram
My Br.u Bg,U Ms. pruFr,- WIFI, , hand
trr,1uI.rI. frp, AMI ..,,.It,,,,,', ,,li,,
these lines. or ,ith,r tLgy t,.ln or n. both d
w. ana how gln Tear inai God alone LnnpNa,,
i,,S y"a , "th Am nv ANY, an '8I, ,. NV, "a, ,,
lrins. Following tao impulse ufn wautuu ha
paper which happy la'7 thl.w iaiu }uul