Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-10-28

LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. %, 1903
Dear Willie: The fact that you did
not answer my last letter is pretty
good sign that you have passed the
stage of lonesomeness when you have
to write home every time darkness
comes on and the world is quiet. Re-
member that your mother and / are
always glad to hear from you and will
insist that you maintain a dutiful
obedience to US in the matter of writ
ing letters home when necessary and
when you have anything to say; but
this thing of trying to soothe ones
lonesome pangs by scribbling a few
touching sentiments in an epistle to
the "old man" is all bosh and mighty
hard on the one who has to read it,
man will never be a man until he
gets away from the family hair brush
and takes whirl at the one in the
public hotel Breaking home ties is a
great thing to start the tears and
was sorry when you left the influence
of your mother and went away to
school. but I knew it was the only
thing that would save you from being
a half man and I was willing to make
few miles from your friends and in
place where the only real pleasure in
living is in forgetting that you live, I
hope your manhood will take a lease
On a strong determination get the
upper hand of everything you tackle.
And don't let go of the lease.
During the summer / was in Spo-
put me in awe of every new fad that
may spring from the imagination of
woman. l was not particularly sur
prised when saw that they were edg-
ing away from the state in which they
were made and were beginning to lean
toward the dress of men, but I can
not stand for this seeming desire of
the young woman of the past summer
to change the color of their hides and
make it appear that they are descend
ants of the race that fought and bled
and died in order to get out of the
way of a civilization which was con-
tinually creeping on their toes. If
there is one thing in the world that
] admire it is a woman free from
artificial coloring and in the natural
color that God made her.
In Spokane the past summer they
organized the BLISTER" club and the
daughter of the man l visited while in
the city is a charter member. 1t took
me some time to get a complete I'M
of what was going on.
and I wondered why this daughter
paid no attention to my sympathy
when ] expressed it at the fact that
she had burned her arms. But finally !
her father explained that was only
one of the several members of her
new society who were letting the sun !
do it's darndest on their arms and were |
suffering untold agony in order to
have their little arms Drowned J
this poor girl presented a |
pitiful sight with the blistered arm
shedding it's first coat of tender skin
that the burning rays had peeled off |
but the desired color was coming, and |
the girl was happy.
/ consider that the limit and when |
you get ready to marry girl, be sure |
that she wears a parasol in hot |
weather and keeps her sleeves rolled |
down when ON dress parade. Your
mothers arms got a9ittle SCARED and |
tanned when we first started house |
keeping because our wash house did |
not have a roof on it and she was COM /
PEELED to- do the Mondays wash in the
sun, but / never knew of her being |
proud of the fact that she was losing |
her natural color, and as soon as l was
able we sent the washing to the laun-
Try and your mother rolled down her |
sleeves
Don't imagine / am going to judge |
he amount of work you have done
Turing the summer by the degree of /
darkness of your forearms when you
'eturn to civilization. That is where /
,ou will make a big mistake. because
was a boy myself once, and l know