Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

from it; and l am not going to pretend
that her manners arc in any way
rIeIsing. Her laugh IS far too loud,
and her teeth are perfectly awful.
Still everybody admits that she is ex-
tremely good to her mother, and | am
quite glad and rejoiced to think that
this was an attraction In your eyes.
SO many men can only take 4 super
icial view. You yourself, when you
have been talking to me, have said
lots of things about my hair and my
eyes, but you have never said one
word about my intellectual qualities.
Yet l should really have valued that
much more, because l can get any
amount of men to talk about my hair
and my eyes. Those are not the things
that really matter.
l really honor you for having no.
ticed Miss Smiths devotion to her
mother and for having fallen in love
with her in consequence. l know many
men who could not have done it. Only
do think that in justice to me you
might have mentioned it, and in JUS
tice to her you should not have allow
ed her to suppose that there was even
a tacit engagement between you. OF
course she did suppose it; Miss Abel
| aide Jones told me so distinctly, and
she told me all about that week at
! Henley, too; N fact, she has shown
| herself a true friend in this trying
time. l feel sure now that you will
! be sorry you ever called her a cat.
and that you will never do it again.
| This had nothing whatever to do with
my reasons for breaking off our en-
gagement, and | hope you will not be
small-minded enough to think that il
has. l am fairly humble and am quite
willing to admit that Edith Brown
has very much the advantage of me
in age and experience, but l am afraid
cannot regard her as a rival; she is
merely one of the people that one
takes no notice of.
I should like you to say what you
wish me to do about your letters and
presents. My instinct, of course, is to
return them. was crying over them
| all last night and thinking that
should much prefer to return them
1t seems almost a pity now that you
had the ring altered so as to fit me
but l dare say good jeweler could
put an inch or so on it and then il
will fit Edith Brown just as well. She
has nice plump little hands, hasn't
she? l ask you to tell me what to dc
because l have only my instinct tC
guide me and do not know what is
the etiquette on these occasions. YoI
see l have never beer jilted ant
thrown over like this before. How
ever, l am not entitled to reproacf
you. l never took the thing very seri
ously myself. and l have no doub
that l shall soon forget all about it.
So you see, George dearest, that
must submit to Papa's superior wis
dom, and that we must definitely say
good-by. Perhaps many years aftel
this we may meet again when yo,
have married Edith. and 1 only hop,
that we shall meet as friends. Faith
fully yours,
JANE ROBINSON.
p. Slave just received invitation
from the Browns TO their daughter
wedding reception. She is a dea
little mouse of q thing. and l thinl
she might have done better than :
Dissenting minister, but mamma say
that it is q very old engagement
do not know If there was anything IL
my letter 10 imply that we SHOULD
break off our engagement. but 1 neve
: intended anything of the kind. MANN.
is quite in your favor and 1 can al
ways make papa do just what I like
p. s. mamma says that Adelaide
Jones is a cat, too.
p. S. 3.-Foy,. e me. I am awful.
sorry But how was l to know
Barry Pain, in the Tattler.