The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-04
Letter No. 2.
arlotte de Courtenay y,

To Mrs. Charlotte de Courtenay.
 My dear Charlotte:-You were wrong in your prophecies. I am neither tired of the country. nor has my complexion suffered to any great extent. You have passed 80 much of your time in summer hotels and have lived so constantly on your nerves through season after season in town that you cannot appreciate condi- lions in the country. It is very different to get away from the Kind of life you lead and get back to something that is calm and natural
 One of MT. Pages women may be taken for a prototype "Why we are all trying to do the same thing, or at least, say the same thing. We do not think at all" she declared. ascores of women come pouring into my house on my days and pour out again. content only to say they ihave left cards on my table. and then sf l do not leave cards on their tables they all think l am rude and put on airs because live in a big house. Forty wo- men called here today and thirty-nine of them said the same thing must get out nf it. And when her cousin asked lher what 1t was she said:
 Nothing"
 And what did you say to them?"
 T gave them the exact equiyalent-noth- Ing l must get out. My husband once said that the most dreadful thing on earth was a worldly old woman.
 You are neither worldly nor old" her cousin protested.
 'l am getting to be both. I am past forty and when a woman Is past forty she as dependent on two thlngs-ner goodness and her intellect I have lost the one and am in danger of losing the other. ] want to go where I can preserve the Flew remnants l have left" She bought country place where the green leaves Aand the country roads created a new heaven and a new earth for her. With you, my dear Charlotte, it is quite different. You confess to be tired of your social exactions. but you cling to gthem. You are still very young yet you have the sensations of a very old person. Fro be under thirty and to be satiated 4with life. to hate the very things that iseparate you from a less exciting exis- ktenee vet never to give them up. E You should see a little girl here who lds just about the age of your little An sgeliea except that where the latter Hpurns dolls, this little one is a devoted Tnother to quite a large family of them.
 How natural it Is for some children to
 .sume responsibilities early in life.
 ti quite convinced now that the play
 ye stage is the happiest. To be only
 ssn and to imagine that you are real adhdy with a French maid and to have nHhole mornings to yourself
 E# This little girl has a wonderful Goll Bhouse and she converts 1t first into Fashionable summer hotel and then into Icountry house. She arry ed at her ho- Iifel few days ago md engaged the Fwhole place for her large family. She has private dining room and a French waitre de hotel who says "Entrez Mad anne" The table has a center p.ece of artHieiSl flowers and the chairs are of paste board The French maid takes the youngest member of the family for <H' ride every afternoon and Madame also requires her to do her hair The bedrooms are small replicas of those in this big country house except that Madames toll let articles are made of tin foil
 There is not woman here with as many