The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-10-26

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AZ, il litiir ur yrilpwcd misSivc
Nat !ol !ruimhly found in an old
dc-h arawrr or among the rubbish in
ti., attic. and which you keep not 50
lnlci because of the sentiment that
attaches t" it, but rather because it is
a sort Of curiosity in this busy, lrac
tlcaI inc OF ours
The lover of the lnns ago toll his
sweetheart when he wrote to Arrthat
her eyes were Ike 'twin >,ai~ and
her voice ''likr music and a whole
lot Of other thing tia, Tie man or the
period would h"t ,li'h 81 putting on
paper, hrcaii.c be- woul, feel quite
certain lhl >huul! tie .irl who re-.
cciycd hat letter would certainly
laual. oAtr 1t, ari r.ll him a goo,- if
Moihll. w"r>c
No, the nc..crn man doe not follow
the "tlra>l >lli"nrd love letter model.
He may say other thing, .in~t ~ silly,
but they arc SAID ,n Il different way.
lie doc>I quote poetry nf the Roses
are red. yol,t. arr lln n.,irr. nor
does he ,cil hi, laly fair tha, the
hours spent AVA from lcravc nntllinv
more than one continuous sigh She
wor! no, bclcvc him if l.r did
II the mai To whoa the modern
lover : letters 9" is wise, She can read
all this, though, between the lines,
for, though the style in lo*r letters
has changed. lovers have not.
The old fasll"nrd lnyc letter could
DC found in any complete Ic,t,.
writer, 80 that the you'll! or the maid
who was not quite mp on such matters
had but To consult the Complete
letter writer, and there was To be
found just the proper form, that
like patent mcdicinc-would do for
all. Blanks we're left for names, and
these suppl ii aud the letter was Of
the correct and approved sort. 1t was
laden with sighs and bit of poetry,
and, all together, a desirable love let
ter. Of course, all oldfashioncd love
letters were not copied from Il Com
pletc letter writer but it just goes
to prove that there was once typical
love letter when there existed widely
circulated book with love letter forms
all ready for copying, doesn't it?
The greatest men, and women, too,
that ever lived have written love let
ters. Some of them, you know, have
been published, but, comparatively,
how few. Love letters were discover
ed to be very silly things long ago.
1t rarely adds to n man or woman 3
greatness to have their love letters
published. In rare instances it does
there are the Brownings
What fascination there is about
one Of the quaint oldfashioncd love
letters! 1t almost makes us sigh to
think OF their passing, to fancy our
children or our children $ children
discovering no lunches of yellow lit
tie letters, with, maybe, faded flower
or two among them, and all tied to-
getherwith blue or lavender ribbon.
1t makes US sigh to think how cruelty
unscntimcntal typcwritten letter,
that exists simply because its rccipi-
olt forgot to burn it, will look 20 our
daughtersif they happened to be of II
sentimental turn Of mind and go on IL
quest for "mother old love letters. .
1t is such IL Edclightful thing, you
know, for Il girl to discover that her
,nnthcr was Il lot moro foolish and
Scntimental'ubout her love affairs than
she is; that Jack never thought Of
writing her such silly stuff rs her
father wrote her mother.
Very pathetic stories have been told
abru, the woman who carries over Old
love letters. it is'not hard to fancy
her sitting in :. dim room with lot of
haplcss. missiNv> strcwn over her la)
and her eyes dim with tears rs sh,
reads over and over again the littl,
verses and The vows.
How it would have shocked the
maid of the long ago to have her lover
employ so business like II means OF
communication as the telegraph, even
provided the telegraph had existed in
the long ago. Now the busy man
often "wircs" his. sweetheart, and
does not think anything of sending
her typewriter note, and the sweet