Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14


temptation indeed, EWE
while all that have VAX~
been through here M
only trial No, - M
you cant live under ~ 4
glass and keep up
with the procession And
anyway l bear
semblanCe whatever to
flowers, and a nice glass
case wouldn't become me at ALL
Thanks, too, for all you wrote about
your home, about the table linen
and the baby, and the chickens and the recipe for
caramel ice cream, and the church sociable, and
the canary, and the rubber heels on YOUR boots!
Thanks for the whole, sweet good sense and under
standing of you! I'm glad you're not one of
don't know what they're talking about If they
went threshing around in all sorts of weather
meeting. all kinds of people, having to watch out
like lynx for danger signals, and, in spite of
all they could do, losing their faith in humanity,
l reckon they'd think better of housekeeping and
house abiding than they do.
My! but they re SAFE those women-those count
less thousands of women in their snug little homes
with their babies scrambing around them, and the
right to say who shall and who shall not cross the
Threshold don't say they haven't their trials 1
know they have They have to work hard and
they must give themselves for others endlessly;
b put after r., ALL DePshine what baekground they
woman stands with that up behind her, she can be
mighty indifferent to the arrows that hurled
l say, my dear, doesn't it come across you that
am trfe-just fe-inconsstent? Why, only
the other day was blowing about the stagnation
to be suffered down in Grand Detour The city for
me, said! l came up here with great buster,
didn't l! And l have succeeded remarkably we'll
Delphine. The cunning little dollars keep coming
in Indeed, they have been prompt as mama;
and so, do you know l sent for dear old Aunt
Louise. She's here at Hagadorn Hall, mothering
everyone, from the ranch woman to the art critic
She S quiet and unobtrusive when we're all having
good time; but just let anyone get in any sort of
trouble and it's Aunt Louise to the fore! She's
the drum major then, whether your trouble is a
cold on the chest or a break in the heart.
7 CAN'T tell you how different 1 feel now Aunt
Louise is here. She's unworldly that you might
not think her advice worth much along certain
lines; but, my dear, it is worth everything and
| m finding out that the it's good is because
she doesn't recognize the complexty of things or
the need for compromise. She has few good rules
and follows them, and the state of the persons
their splendor or learning any such thing
doesn't affect her principles You may say that
follow them, you come out all right told her the
other night that she talked just like Socrates
Nothing she believes, can harm the righteous man
He may be slan he may be ruined by liars or may
know starvation, his friends may desert him; but
nothing can really harm him. She's wonderful
Aunt Louise. She goes everywhere with me- and
she makes friends among all sorts. 1t may be a
the imposing friends of art critic,-who has a
perfectly good social position,-but they look
at Aunt Louise and see how her eyes shine with an
inward light, and how her white hair parts above
her clear brow, and her thin lips smile little and
tremble in the smiling they done forever the
ropes and counted out.
You know, it's the funniest thing how | have
been caught mapping l always have oathed de-
tested, and held in contempt the chaperon idea