El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09


The letters are exchanged between
Laura CraWley. who started OUT 10
make a career for herself in New ork
in grand opera. but has finally drifued
into musical comedy, and her mother
who is running a small hotel IN the
little town of HolbrOOke, Va, close to
a fashionable summer MOTEL known as
the Homestead Mr. and Mrs. Hurley
are a New York couple who had taken
Laura under their wing, but who, II
now appears have become eStrangeds
Mrs. Hurley proceeding to the west to
obtain divorce Jim Burke IS a form
er sutton VINO has decided to marry
another girl who has always remained
faithful to him-MOly Siddons. Al
though he feels there is no Use wait
ing for Laura and intends to marry
Molly. he asserts that If Laura should
send for him at any time he would 60
to her, wife or no wife Laura init
mates, mischievOusly, that she may
send for him Mrs Crawley's trials
with her husband and her son Paul
also figure in the preceding letters.
Holbrooke. Va. Oct IL
~ EAR LAURA-In the midst Of
great confusion in this little
- hotel Of ours received your
telegram telling Of your great success
at the opening Of the musical comedy
night before last am very glad.
dear. Evidently il means much to you,
and I want tou to succeed in what
ever you undertake. The confusion in
the household is due to the fact that
Phil has gone to work as night clerk
over at the Homestead at $50 month.
and your father says he is very sick.
He also says that it is curious how
little sympathy a man gets when he is
sick IT is curious. isn't it that we all
this life. L notice someone has intro
duce a bin in congress to set aside one
day each year as "aEther's day"
suppose on that day father is to throw
mis- ashes on the floor and talk about
himself ad nauseum without any re-
monstrance from the rest of the fam
ily- All, well, we women have stood
great deal from the fathers. 1 guess
we can stand a little more
Now that Phil has q position, he has
almost decided 10 get married He says
lots Of couples live on 500 month
with the help Of their parents The
girl he has in mind is little butter
fly at the hotel whom he had known
at least two weeks don't mean that
she is here at our hotel, but over at
the Homestead. She says she is viii
ling 10 take a chance with him. She
probably knows no more about house
keeping than Napoleon knew about
automobiles
There was q time when every girl
was supposed to be a good cook. A
mother would boast of her daughter in
direct ratio to her ability to turn out
well cooked food and biscuits. Young
men in discussing the respective merits
OF their lasSies began and ended with
their cooking Now. however, girls {
seem to have discarded the weapon in
conquering men. The insidious din
ner has given way to the still more in
sidiOus slit skirt and intellectual (
conversation. A young man who told
a girl that the thing ne liked best
about her was her cooking would be
shown TO the door and expelled incOn-
tinently.
Possibly, dear, the evolution has
has been due to the fact that some
men did not remain loyal to the good
cooks who married them, but cast ad-
mirinE glances at the well dressed
young ladies' whose attractiveness had
little to do with the culinary art Any
how, it is quite certain that the wo-
men have rebeHed and that the art OF
cooking is being lost I find few WO-
men today who hold the theory that
the way to reach a noble mans heart
is through MS stomach But the eVO-
buttons have not improved on the
world. Nan is now becoming dyspep-
tic, and the feverish rush to keep wo-
man well dressed so that she can hold
his affection is making him bald.
Jim Burke had asked Molly SiddOns
10 be his wife. She's accepted
guess that is what set our Phil on the
Warpath- don't know when the we'd
ding is to be. Molly is very happy.
Jim smiles as though it hurt How
ever, the world wags on.
With love from your Mater.
Out With a Married Man.