Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-03

| send the yamhed for plantin in you
garden, but i do not know wether
will reap the benefit of it,
Ii is curious that the language CT
| love nearly always runs to rhetoric,
even in the case of people who have
| little or no education, or are not far
removed from what is called barbarism.
All the world over the lover likes to
express his heart throbs in the most
ornate and picturesque language he
can think of.
Here. for example is a letter which
was written by an Indian "babu'' to
his beloved in Madras. to propose mar
riage. He had had a kind of English
| education, and thought it would be
more impressive to write in English
| than in the verna cular. He earned a
precaricus livelihood by writing petit
tons to the British authorities for other
| natives, so he naturally drafted his
love letter in the form of petition:
May it please your Sweetest Excel
| lence:
Your petitioner now approaches yon
! to solicit. crave and implcre an ines
Unable boon, being aware that you
! have been delegated, nominated and
| constituted diiu appointed Nv lHS queen
of Love to preside over her liege sub
jects as Archion or Executive in this
~rent dependency of Her vast Do
minions.
| Greater art thou than the famed
Semiramis. Queen OF Babylon, or Her
the Eastern Sheba. or the Egyptian
glorious Cleopatra of celebrated men,
| DRY. Anthony's loved Queen. Greater
art thou in the hearts of men than
Britain's Queen, the revel of whose
drum circles the world, and Sol or
Phoebus never sets on. Pardon this
egotistical depression and resumes SUBJ
ject.
Your petitioner by love for you is SEN
! fenced to torture worse than Prone
theus, who stole fire from heaven Your
Petitioner now humbly appeals to your
| clemency, and trusts that Your Elk
cellency may be pleased to take COM
passion on a poor, destitute and be-
reaved widows son, and restore him to
happiness. as did the Prophet of Jeho-
yah. the good Elijah at Zarepath, that
other widows son. to life.
Had your Petitioner the wings of
| Pegasus fly he would to Parnessus to
| consult the Oracle Of Delphi to learn of
| his hoped liberation from Tartarus, suf-
fering the punishment CT Sisvphus or 4
second Tantalus."
A lover is seldom slow to utter his
reproaches by word or pen, when his
jealousy is aroused. Witness this let
ter, written by native of Port-of-
Spain, Trinidad, to his sweetheart
my Dear Jemima:-I has not heard
from you for dis . weeks CORN. Has
you forgot de day wen you mex me
promise to be my true luv? You must
know dat l has heard a lot OF tingS
about you which has been sorely dis
appoint me in you.
Z have heard dat you stan at you1
gate and tark to a fine dress coachman.
I have heard dat you go to church wild
him: I have heard dat you am promise
to me but you luv him.
20. Miss Jemima, dare is goind to be
a ball party at Miss Mccgans on We'd
nesday night, do come thare to You
Dear lover, George.
MANY kisses me sweet luv."
The japanese, with their true artistic
feeling in all the affairs of life, excel in
the art of writing a love letter. Eth
quette in Japan obliges people ALWAYS
tn speak scCrnfully of their own quail
tiles and possessions, and to enhance
those of others. Thus Japanese lover
finds it doubly easy to praise his beloved
and depreciate himself, as is the way
of lovers all the world over. Here is j
coed example of the japanese love let
ter:.
Beloved Touching my forehead in
the dust before thy augustness. | en-
treat you to listen to my despicable
words. Miserably l long for you. who
are set as far above me as is the red
eye of Fuji-San from the peasant in
the valley. Miserably desire the sweet
consolation of your beneficent love. I
who am beneath your honorable love
Illness as far as the OK in the fields is
beneath the crane flying in the heav-
ems. Sweeter is thy face than the
peach blossom, more graceful thy form
than the swaying of the honorable
bamboo Will not the souls of cur
| august ancestors smile graciously on
our wedding, that your honorable great
ness may compensate by despicable
| shortcomings"
In such a style do Japanese lovers
write to che another. but after mar
riage the Japanese husband is forced
| by mis- code of good manners to say to
a friend: "Will you honorably deign
to enter my despicable house and visit
my miserably degraded wife," She
/ has become one of his possessions and
| must be decried as such.
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