The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-28
BY EDW
G. q RITToN.

HERE BEGINNETH writing. People
TALE OF who write regular
SOME TROUBLES. ly because they an
ticipate pay day
must needs yoke themselves to pen ana
pencil frequently and get into worse than
trouble. That is what a newspaper
writer expects and If it don't come he
wonders if he is getting ready to be
marked rusty and laid away on the
shelf. It's part of the game, for the man
who must tell the public what naughty
old public it is, occasionally finds an in
dividual crawling out from the mass who
differs from him and proceeds to make
his difference known in ways that are
not oftimes pleasant The reporter and
the roast from the "Vox Populis" are
intimate and fond acquaintances.
And it has arrived on this section of
the paper, and this writer is gravely
thinking it all
LETTERS THAT over. He found a
WE LOOK FOR pretty little grey
SOMETIMES COME. tinted, sweetly per-
fumed, blatantly
feminine, four square envelope in his mail
the other morning and visions of the pos
sible fair one who wrote it swept in
Pleasant panorama across his vision. 1t
is always thus when in the rush of bust
ness mail the man at his desk gets one
of these tender looking envelopes. He
thinks of babbling brooks and evening
sunsets, and the glory of the moon, and
the zephyr breeze and the soft notes Of
music and all of those nice, dainty things
that go with romance and knock a hole
in any old prosaic work a-day program.
1t is the anticipation of letters like these
that ofttimes makes the business man
shovel into his mail as if he We're seek
ing his collar button that has wiggled
under the bureau.
But this particular letter when opened
dispelled all of these fond illusions. 1t
looked like business in
THE WHY OF side and there was no
THE TROUBLE wasting of frills. 1t
MADE KNOWN. was in a lady's writing,
but it was not of ro-
nance that she wrote. 1t began, "Mr.
Editor" and set forth its purpose in
these words: 81 write to protest against
your cruel treatment of the girls who go
to summer resorts. 1t is not simply to
fiirt, or to display dresses. or to have a
dozen beaux on her string that she goes,
but it is for recreation after the dull
sameness and dreary routine that is often
times her lot. 1t may be that some of
the girls who go are in love and that
their fiancees follow them. This would
account for many things against which
you have turned your pen, and you ought
not to do it," Then came the signature
with a dash-"An Indignant One"
Well, forgive me, but Il MAJ be so. at
any rate IAN Indignant One" confesses
that some of 1.-The
THE RULE girls who go are in
THAT'S GOOD love" and explains
FOR LOVERS. their summer day
dress parade evolu-
lions by this expression. This leads me
to recall an old maxim. or saw. or OBJ
servation that I've seen somewhere at
sometime and it is this: There is only
one safe rule in love, and that is to be
sure and make fool of yourself" I've
often thought of this, and I've watched
the performers IN Loves Drama" to see
il it is So but it is with fear of many
indignant ones filling my mind with dread
that l confess that the rule holds good.
In tact | believe Puck should have said
What fools these lovers be- and rather
think that is what he meant OF course
there are exceptions, but then these were
never really in love, and it's exceptions
that make the rule.
All, when this thing called love bursts
in its full effulgence upon the boy at
school. what does he
YOUNG FOOLS do? In front of mir
ALSO MAKE row he searches for
OLDER FOOLS the coming mustache
and pats with pompa-
dour his rebellious top-knot. He invests
in glaring ties and spends all the money
he can coax out of dad" in buying candy
and rosy appls to pass to his beloved at
school that she may feast upon. And this
object of his affection, what does she do?
She giggles as she receives his gifts and
proudly exhibits them to her desk mate
She likes to parade her conquest for
youthful as she is there are in her the
same germs that peryade the system OF
the belle who hauls her followers to the
seashore or the mountains that others
may look on and see how great a charmer
she is.
Make a fool of yourself" Yes, that's
the plan that the schedule of love is run
on. but to the credit
MANY WAYS of the gentler sex let
TO EXHIBIT it be said that they
LOVES FOLLY. generally make the
men play the leading
part in the performance. Men in love can
find more unknown ways of making fools
of themselves than would be thought
POSSIBLE. If just the same attention was
given to business the wealth that could
De accumulated by the lover would be
something immense. The love lorn
suitor is a perfect mint of invention and
ingenuity when the subject of making a
fool out of himself comes to the front.
III ne mas been given the frozen glance
by the lady of his heart the more vigor-
ously does he undertake this performance.
Name some of these? Well take the
fellow who celebrates his conquest of a
heart by running around
THE WORLD Boosting of his lady's
LOOKS ON beauty His male friends
AND SMILES. might stand it, but he in