The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-12
SOLVING A LOVE MYSTERY
MISSING REPLIES TO AN ENGLISH
WOMAN'S LOVE LETTERS ARE
GIVEN OUT BY FRIENDS
SOME UNIQUE IDEAS OF LOVE
The Reason for the Broken Engage
ment Clearly Shown in the
Letters Written by
the Man.

are charming reading, and the interest
In them is increasing both in England
ana this country, due much to the
mystery that surrounds them as to their
literary merit This interest has been
intensified during the past week by the
writer's friends retaliating by giving out
for publication the letters to which they
are in reply-those she received from the
man. That An Englishwoman's Love
Letters are genuine is now general
ly believed, for not only have all known
authors denied connection with them,
but all claims by unknown authors have
been shown to be fraudulent
The replies are prefaced by letter
from Annette Mathews of Stockton-on-
Tees, the Nan-nan of the woman let
tiers, explaining that by the order of her
mistress she put them in the coffin, but
that they We're taken from 1t by some
one arranging the casket, who failed to
replace them. Her letter shows she
gives them to the public In revenge for
the publication of her mistress letters.
With this clue the names of the parties
to the correspondence cannot long re-
main secret, for they must be known to
hosts OF friends. very uuSavory scan
dal may yet grow out of it, for the rea-
son why the marriage was broken off,
Which plainly appears in his letters, will
shock even Mayfair English society as 1t
has not been shocked in many years
An Englishman's Love Letters bear
all the marks of genuineness. and it is
plain they have not been edited; that
they are printed as written. At the be-
ginning he tells her ne Is not a letter
writer, and he is right; but they are far
and away cleverer and more interesting
than hers, while the tragedy they reveal
| show very clearly why he does not wish
| them printed
| Why she should have fallen in love
why having fallen in love he should not
be her Prince Charming but her Prince
Wonderful, for whom she had at first
too much awe and reverence to know she
loved him, has bothered many readers
His letters show that this was a jest be-
tween them by which a certain sixteen
| years of his life was cut out of their
| reckoning
| The letters reveal him as a brilliant,
versatile man of the world finely edu-
! Gated, widely read with a curious ono
matopoeic memory, yet full Of all sorts
| of hobbies and peculiar ideas. She does
not understand him he knows it, and has
all sorts of quiet and gentle fun with her
| insistence that he is garden English
man.
Each of his letters begins with some
original term of endearment framed
from the circumstances of her letters
! To that one of her early letters where n
she describes tho clouds in the sky as
kites sent up by her heartstrings, he r.
| plies:
Dear Witch's Curve-Ycu have seen
how a watch spring is wound. Lift 1t up
at the center 50 that 1t outlines a cone.
1t would be easy to g t the length If you
could unwind it and measure it on a yard
stick but the mathemati-a al problem is
| to get its length without unwindng it,
SO that if the base of the cone is ten
| inches and the height tTVelVa and the
| turns nine or any ether figures, you can
! tell the length by substituting the fig
ures for the letters in a constant equa-
| ton. This was one of the problems 1
| had to wrestle with when boy. There
| is one harder, that of three revolving
bodies, and one only less hard that of a
| spring or string wound around cylin-
| er. They are supposed to combine every
| curve in the universe.
Put these are delicious North country
mince pies, such as YOU get on the farms
! of canny a ed Tyne side, cOmpared with
the curves of your fancy wnen it SIR ais
its wings and scars. Never, neve neN Q :
| will I be able to catch i equs ton. o,
| be able to measure its va ue, Once
thought I could That was fore l
knew your pyrotechnic mind All m "
/ hope to do is 10 admire and adore en- /
wonder at the lights of the kites You
send up.
| L wish I could express myself as you
| do, but st. Paul consol me. "T he
woman is the glory OF the man." And
! again he remarks, casually: There are
! also bodies celestial meaning you, "snd
| and bodies terrestrial" meaning ms
With my feet to the earth / will re dice
| to see you, dear Witchs Curve send up
as many kites as you like so lor G as you
remain my glory" ] want TO glory, no
honor, no riches, except in you alone
| want you to have all and mine to be in
! your-in usufruct.
The allusion in this last word is to her
wish to be his 'freeholl.'
! His letter telling her he will join her
) at Zurich will delight the lover of KIP
/ ling's ''Three Decker" at his application
| of it.
Beloved-You will fnd me at the right
Bauer, all lac, in Zurich, on the 1871,
prepared to act as your cicerone, CHI =
eron and guide so long as your pa ty will
accept my services.
In ways no gaze can follow
A course unspoil-d by cooks
When you get there, sw ep round your
! aching searchlight. The deaf, gray
/ bearded c. will NOT he missed, tfo gl
| his gondola may. I am going to
take you off his swing-you twist-you mud
scow with but a single sweep, and give
you little music and dancing IN tn
islands of the blest."
The distinct and permanent value in
this collection of love letters is the reve-
lation it makes of the scientific side of
love, and in this it is unique-the first
of the kind ever printed. We have been
surfeited with the literary and sentiment
tai side-those books are legion. This
reveals its effect on the coldly scienti SC
mind of an engineer. Listen to this
extract in reply to her question why ne
| loved her
When the universe was formless and
void. When each undifferentiated atom
was world in itself. And before that.
What came first? 1t was attraction "And
the spirit of God moved upon" the void.
and that spirit was love in its highest
sense. the attraction that brought them
together. 1 will not 60 80 far as to add
from the Tyndall mot Tyndale) Bible, and
their contact begat light, heat and cleo
tricity. Tyndale first trans ated the BIZ
BILE into English Tyndall first wrote a
scientific parody on Genesis. He follows
this down to physics, translates it into
| physical expression in the heat group
Of mental conditions or emotions, and
shows the physical basis of the two
expressions of love, that which "dies
with the kiss" by transform tons of en-
/ ergy. and that which is of God
This mental or spiri attraction
passes on from age to age If you could
look back along the string of beads
that make up many lives, you would
/ find this love of ours running through
ALL the silver thread on which they are