Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-22
GRID AND
LOVE LETTERS

The advice of an old lawyer to his
son was that, no matter what his re-
lations with womankind, he should
never write a love letter and never de-
stroy one, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. 1t is probable that this coun-
sci Of perfect wisdom fell on deaf ears.
for when any particular man is con-
sumed by a fever for any particular
woman he at once commences writing
love letters.
GIe gushes and gases and romances
to such an extent that when he gets
into a divorce case, or a breach of
promise action, there is about as little
hope for him as for a woman who
keeps a diary. If before dispatching
their billets doux they would ask them
selves the simple question, How will
this stuff look in a law court?" they
would tear up 80 per cent. of their
love letters as soon as they were writ
ten.
A love letter is only joke to the
man who has not written it. The one
who has to pay the $4,000 damages
and costs always fails to see where the
fun of it comes in.
1t is one of the settled facts in the
history of love letters that men Will
write and women will keep. A woman
cherishes her love letters as she cher
ishes her mirror or her powder puff
She ties them in blue ribbons and
perfumes them with Violette de Parme
She kisses them before she goes to bed
and presses them to her bosom before
she does her hair up in the morning.
She reads them for weeks and knows
where to find them for years, and
about the only safe thing the man who
has written them can do is to marry
her
Years after she may remind him that
he told her in one of them that ne
could gaze into her dear eyes forever,
while now he does not stay at home
long enough to gaze into them for five
minutes, but she cannot sue him for
breach of promise or have his letters
read in court to make him the laugh
ing stock of his fellow citizens,
Of all literary compositions the love
letters of men contain the maximum Of
twaddle and the minimum of sense.
The only explanation is that every man
in love tries to become poet.
A woman writes more convincing
love letters than a man because she
writes everything out of her heart
while a man writes anything which
comes into his head, and the weaker
the head the more he Stops over. If he
We're to confine himself to inquiring
how his adored enjoyed herself yes
terday and where she would like to
enjoy herself tomorrow, hoping she
was quite we'll as it left him at pres
Ient, all would be we'll. But that is not
his way.
He vows all sorts of absurdities, pins
himself down to all sorts of pledges
and throws in rhapsodies about her
eyes, her lips, her hair and her teeth
A love letter ought to proceed on
business lines. The fondest lover in
the world cannot tell woman more
about her eyes and hair and teeth than
she knows herself Writing to his wife
he may commence his letter, 'fMy pre-
cious darling" and end it. "Your own
forever" and be perfectly safe even if
she has her doubts about him; but this
sort of thing to a girl he, perhaps,
dreams of making his wife in world
where there is many a slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip is not a wise insurance
against accidents, to say the least. On,
for the business love letter-if any!