Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28
WRITES LETTERS FOR
SWANS WHO TREMBLE
WOMAN is CON.
sTRUcToR OF LOVE MIssIvEs
Sticks Close to chlckens-In Fourteen
Years Has Never Been Two
Blocks from Her
Home
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 27.-There
Is a demure, nervous little woman lIv-
ing on South East street at 1918. who fol-
lows profession that Is novel as we'll as
lucrative she holds the distinction of
being the only woman in INDIANAPOLIS
who is engaged in the singular occupa-
tion of making paying profession out of
the art of letter writing Years devoted
to the following of this business have
marked her but slightly, and besides she
has for fourteen years had an insight
into other peoples affairs-both business
and love.
Her name is plain-just Mrs. I. w.
Hayden. And doesn't she do mysterious
things? Listen to what she has to saw
about her profession:
THE people, some of them. like to
come to me. Now, If you, young man.
should get a letter from a girl who was
exceptionally intelligent and you wanted
to answer it as inteligently as possible
and you wanted it to be perfectly con-
structed and grammatically correct. Won
could sit across the table from me and
read to me the letter you had received
and I would write one to the young lady
that would fit exactly.
Money in Love Letters
Now, the kind of letter was just
telling you about is the kind that 1 write
mostly. 1 do, of course, write letters to
the foreign lands, and read letters that
have come from there to persons over
here. But the ones on which the money
Is made are the letters from young men
to young ladies and from the ladies to
the men. Innocent love letters, 1 call
them.'
In her little home Mrs. Hayden lives
alone with her 'kitties and chickies," and
g.
do Seldom does she leave the imme-
diate neighborhood of her cottage, and
she does not mingle with those who live
about her. According to her way of
thinking she is happier with her cats and
chickens, who are her sole delight out
side her work, and anyhow, the cats and
chickens are not quarrelsome.
Mrs Hayden has lived in indianapolis
for fourteen years, and has been quietly
conducting her letter writing all these
years. and during the last six years
she has not been within sight of Wash
ington street. Although she is living
withing fourteen blocks of the intersec-
ton of Illinois and Washington streets,
where stands the Claypool hotel, she
said yesterday afternoon that she had
never been near enough to see the hotel
since the old Bates house stood on the
site.
True to Her Trust
1.-THE sign on your window states that
all of your work is confidential-scarcely
so, I believe" was volunteered by the
visitor.
"Oo-o-strictly" and she added. mo
confidence has ever been betrayed that
was intrusted to me in my work"
Mrs. Hayden explained that she was
not willing to write anything for any
one, no matter how large a fee was Of
fered, if there appeared To be an ul-
terror motive back of the writing.
No, sir 1 told one man." she said,
Ito write a letter like that to anyone
would not be right, and besides I would
not write anything to anyone and not
sign any name He had asked me If I
would write a letter to another man
and not sign any name to 1t. 1 said:
You haven's money enough to persuade
me to write an unsigned letter of any
kind for you"