The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-27
MYRTLE
MEADOWS

II is simply glorlous--the freedom
the restfulness, the thought that one
may spend long, beautiful, lazy days
with nothing to do but be happy.
mo grim, type-writing machine
staring one out of countenanoe. a
constant reminder of monototiots
duties and work unending. No wo-
man-hating employer with steel-blue
eyes and patrician features to reminfi
one that he is hand-painted. three
fired French china. and you are only
the commonest OF kitchen pottery.
THANK goodness. that is all left
behind In the old real estate Office In
Chicago, and Hazel and l reyel in
our liberty, eating crisp vegetables
Just from the garden, deyouring
plump, fried spring chickens and
golden, olover-aavored butter. and
then we bathe and fish to our hearts
content.
"fon see we are boarding in the
dearest old farmhouse. We couldn't
anord to gogto one of the fine Dele
van Lake hotels. and now we are
glad we couldn't. We can wear our
kimonos to our noontime dinner If
we choose; we row on the lake, ride
the fat ora horses and Hazel even
tried once to help milk the COWS, but
she made an awful mess of It.
Then we read and whistle and sing
and string beans and hull peas, and
this afternoon we put up good Joke
ON some one. we don't know who yet.
We were helping Mr.. Brown pack
T. some baskets of the biggest, most
luscious blackberries you ever saw In
your life. when was seized with an
idea, and Hazel and wrote the soft
est, mnshiest gush of a note that we
could manufacture and signed two
mems names to it--John Hastings
Dalrymple and Frank Huntington,
giving the Delevan postoffice as our
address.
I'VE said we hoped our little white
winged messenger might fall into the
hands of two sweet maidens fancy
fTee' and begged IL II should that
they would write to us. We read the
note to Mr.. Brown and he laughed
till his fat sides shook and promised
not to give us away If he ever found
letter at the postoffice for the SEN
umental young men. so now we're
expecting bushels of fun out of 1t.
III any girls at one of the big ho-
tells should happen to buy that basket
of berries and answer that note wont
they feel too silly for anything after
they find out how they've been fool
ed? or course. we wouldn't have got
ten up such a correspondence with
strange men. but it viii be all right
with girls.
How hope some naughty. aristo
cratic young ladies who would scorn
common girl stenographer may fall
into our trap. m
Cant you come up for a week at
least while we girls are here?
with no end of love.
Myrtle Meadows"
Tue LlldcA, June E0tn.
Dear Jane-What dear you are to
answer SO promptly, and such
bright, newsy letterl Why | felt as
II | had been having a jolly time in
Chicago myself, when | had finished
reading it. You were perfectly right
In dismissing Howard A man who
drinks to excess before marriage. isn't
apt to quit afterward, and It pays to
stand firmly by ones principles. I'm
sure | shall. always
"Of course, 1t Ia easy to be good
out here on the fam where there are
no temptations oaly-but, that re-
minds me, actually xome simple girls
did find the note we put In that black
berry basket, and answered it--but
foolish things! n
But their note wasn't nearly SO
gushing and sentimental as ours, and
what do you think? They dared to
lecture us on our impudence in want
ing to get up such correspondence.
They said we might easily get our
affections entangled by regular adj
venturesses, and that we ought to be
thankful 10 have fallen only into the
hands of girls just graduated from
school.
II tell you we both felt rather small
and mean and silly ourselves after we
had read that sage letter. but we
were somewhat eomforted bv the
closing page that grew quite poetical
and friendly. even IL 1t was unso-
and school-girlish.
And they assured us that they felt
a friendly interest In our welfare,
that they almost envled us our busy,
happy life in the country. that they
felt sure that at heart we were good
and brave and true men, and finally
consented to keep up the correspond
ence.
SO, while II isn't just as we ex.
pected, 1t will be great fun to fool
them anyhow.
Il am so sorry you can't have your
vacation before August. but you must
be sure to come here to board even II |
We are gone. Lovingly
tufi tH' Myrtle Meadows"
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