The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1903-10-15
A MOUNTAIN
CORRESPONDENCE.
M 5. mHrrr HomAN.

don't see what use there is Of
guardian II he does as you do,
lives shut up in his country house,
while all sorts Of things are hap
pening and undesirable men are
trying TO marry Valerie know
this is all jumbled up, but, really,
! am so provoked with the child
! don't know what / am writing.
What she means by her senseiess
and erratic way Of going on, turn
ing of all the nice men and good
parties whom the other girls are
running after, and who fash
around her, and then encouraging
such impecunious fellows as
Richard Fenton, going walking
with him and giving him most Of
her dances at every cotillon and
laughing at every hint or sugges-
tion / make and not following ms
advice at all, is more than ] can
fathom.
Everybody is beginning TO talk
about the roses he sends her
I'D like TO know where he gets
the means to order American
beauties in New York--and his
outrageously pointed attentions.
! am exasperated TO the last de
gree, and can do absolutely moth
ing with the troublesome child.
! told her plainly the other day
that with her looks and educa-
tion and wealth she certainly
ought TO marry brilliantly. and
that I disapproved emphatieally
OF Richard Fenton.
She laughed and whistled 10
her dog and went out Of the house.
] said / would write to you
about her silly and "outrce' con
duet, and reminded her Of her
fathers will, and that she must
do as You say about marriage un-
I'll she is IS. She blazed out that
Ehe would not be dictated TO BY
yon or anybody on such matters,
and that Dick Fenton was worth
much more than a million dollars.
II she were not my child l would
wash my hands OF her.
, Now, really thik you ought
10 come and look after Valerie
as her guardian.
She was always the queerest
! and most unmanageahle child
and so unlike other girls.
She takes interest in an sorts
Of queer people and things, and
none az all in her gowns. When
we we're in Paris ] entreGted hel
20 come with me 10 consult Dou
Get and order some costumes fol
winter. She said that was non,
Of her business, but noucet's
that she was no dressmaker. Jus
fancy. ! learned the other day b.
accident that she was helpin,
some impoverished Italian WON
an who claims, ] suppose. TO be ;
eounfcss--tO raise silk worms.
! nearly tainted when hear,
Of IL. We will have caterpillar
throughout the house next.
You really must do some
thing, my dear Allen. You'd bet
fer come.
: Yours with a nervous headach,
SUSAN FARNLElGH
The Cottage on the cliffs.
! My Dear Val-Aren't YOU ratl
er tired Of your unvarying plca'
presg Toujours pcrdrix gets {
be rather sickening, and littl
change and variety is a wondeI
Col tonic 10 brace up one s Jade
appreciation of pleasures whic
become monotonous by constaU
repetition.
] hear you are growing pal
and your roses are fading, so
|, thought Of you yesterday Will
watching a clear skinned moul
tain girl trudging by with a pa
Of milk aud the idea occurred
me that u you would run up heI
20 these solitudes for few Wecl
---or months, nay deaF-ihe pi
uant contrast u this life Wit
your ceaseless turmoil and rus
would amuse you.
Here YOU would have nothiI
on earth 20 do but drive on strC
through the mountains aud eh.
with your old guardian in q
evenings, until you get sleepy al
90 TO bed.
An artist Of some value com
here every summer to sketch "A
paint, and you must give him
few slttlngu, SO that when "
leave the hermit Of these vii
and go back to your youthful al
legitimate frlyolities, your ina
will remain behind On the wa
Il. A..