Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-01-30
ROMANCES THATLIVE
TENDER LITTLE ATTENTIONS THAT
SHOULD ENDURE AFTER MARRIAGE.
The Busy Business Man who Wa
Reminded by Some Old Love Let
ters-Makc Sure Your Romance In
More Than . Summer Day Dream.

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tcrs-Make Sure Your Romance In
More Than . Summer Day Dream.
When Thackeray first saw that men
tai ailment had attacked the wife to
whom be was most devoted, he sadly but
bravely took up the burden Of caring for
her, trusting this task to no one less lev
ing than himself, and years later, when
II became necessary to put her under the
care of trained attendants, be wrote this
to friend: Though my marriage was
wreck, would do it over again; for. be-
hold, love is the crown and completion Of
all earthly good"
Wagner and his second wife were
sweethearts always. When the great man
died, Nine. Wagner cut off her beautiful
hair and made pillow of 1t for his coffin.
lie had admired II in life, and it was her
last gift to him in death.
We tell these romances, and others like
them, over and over again, and the world
never grows tired of hearing them. The
romance of fiction stops at the chapter
that ends, And they married and lived
happy ever after" The cynic says this Is
far enough to carry the story; that be-
yond that there would be little OF ro-
nance to relate. And the cynic draws
his conclusion from the lives Of everyday
men and women. We resent, usually,
what the cynic has TO say upon this sub
ject, and yet in the bottom of our hearts
we know there is much of truth In his
saying
Old letters will tell tales. This Is one
that bunch Of letters told not long ago.
She is very charming matron. the wo-
man who owns the bunch of letters, and
something more than d dozen wedding
anniversaries has she set her dinner ia
bic prettily to celebrate. The man in
the case is a busy business man, albeit
most devoted to his familyso the neigh
bors tell me, and neighbors have a way
of knowing all about such things. He
was most devoted lover, too--this the
letters tell. Sometimes in the long ago,
when by any chance he was out of town.
he wrote to his sweetheart long letters.
It mattered not IL he sent her two a
day, they were always long and bsim
full of the most endearing terms. These
his sweetheart read over and over again
and treasured and treasures them still.
The man said not long ago that IL could
not be possible that any time in his life
he could have put so many foolish moth
ings on paper. But this is getting ahead
of my story.
Well, with this bunch OF love letters
there Is another package in quite COM
mercial looking envelopes and of later
date. Not one of them contains more
than % words, so the owner of them
declares. Once she reminded the writer
of them that this was fact. and he
said. We'll. my dear, there is never any
thing to write about when one is away
on a business trip" And Ii was then
that the charming matron brought forth
those long, loving letters-writien also
while the sender was on business trips"
and it was then the man declared he
had never penned such nonsense in his
life and vowed that the little wife had
saved a lot of "some other fellows let
ters." There was hearty laugh over il
all, and the busy business man said that
he had been sadly lacking in loveriike
ways. he was afraid, since his honey
moon and forthwith suggested n trip to
the best theater in town for the even
ing. Late in the afternoon a messenger
brought a box of flowers TO the door
just as a messenger used to years ago.
The busy business man made q flying
trip out of town the other day, and while
he was gone. back there came TO his home
address one OF the dearest OF love letters,
which a certain little lady. who always
wears dainty gray gowns. blushed over
like a girl ard quickly went to her desk
to answer. As she sewed the lace ON the
ruiiies of nne Of her little daughters
white fr0cks that afternoon she hummed
softly to herself sweet little song that
she remembered she FUSED to sing when
giri"-she still looks like a girl. which
goes to prove that she has always been
happy in her married life. But the ten
der little attentions. il is just as well TO
have them renewed. isn't II? A woman
is not bit spoiled by being made love to
all her life.
And all this reminds me of how indif.
ferent we grow toward even the best low
ed in our home circles. IL is not that we
love them little that we seldom give any
outward and visible sign of our devotion,
but that from day 10 day we think-if we
think of IL AT all-that at some other
time willfwe be more patient and tender
toward Harry or Dick or Bessie; that
one cannot be expected 70 think Of all the
cares and responsibilities crowd so fast
one upon the other. But il takes no more
time. my dear. TO be tender than it does
to be indifferent or impatient.
The romances of life that are worth
while live through shade as well as sun
shine. will gEant You that when life
runs on smoothly without ups and downs
there are fewer occasions for one TO
speak impatientIy and wear unbecoming
frowns, and it is for fear that just such
things may happen that either man or
woman may find il worth while TO be
quite certain that his or her romance is
something more than just a summer day
dream. 1t takes love, and real love. to
stand the gloon of gray days The cynic
is quite given. you know. To telling of the
unhappy ending of the more than one
summer day romance that he has known.
But hope the girls that ] know will not
listen TO the cyuic. | hope they will bet
ter employ their time in listening to the
lifelong romanees of such as Mime. Wag-
ner and the clever and devoted Tback-