El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-16
The Diary Of A Bachelor
He Writes to Sally About How Fas-
chatting the Nurse Is; HIS Let
ter Is Tantalizing.
by MIX
tGUsT 28.-Being copy Of my

ter Is Tantalizfng.
tGUST 23.-Being a copy Of my
n letter to Sally Spencer, who is
1 A away off in Paris, while I am
confined to the house by Illness up
| here in the nOthernmost woods OF the
most unspellable name;
MY Dear Sally: Richard tells me
I that you are solicitous about me- 1
| wonder if you are 1t IS nard 10 De
lieve a woman is soIlciJous ABOUT
man when she enjoys herself shopping
I in Paris, while he lies sick and SUI
/ ferring uD in the nOthernmoSt WOODS
I of the United States. unprotected from
wild indians and pretty nurses
I am sure if you could reallze What
weird mysterious sounds there are up
j here in the night and which can mean
nothing else but hObgOblins, ghosts ana
| Indians you would realize my peril
! For when I call out for some one 70
sbnt ont their demoniacaI shrieks and
walls and comfort me, there comes
very pretty nurse, warm and sweet
and rosy from the nap she mas Deeh
irving to snatch somewhere IN the dlm
recesses OF my room, and puts her
arms around me, and is most sootnlnS
$50 YOU see when I turn for help in
one periI I am confronted by greater
one, and there is no Book or warn
ings YOU could send that would help
me, for this stiffly starcheO person
wouldn't let me see II If you sent one.
"She is a most dOmlneeT1ng person
Small oh very much smaller than
YOU I am anxious to grow strong
enough to stand on my Feet TO see II
she reaches my heart mean, OF
course in stature If she has reached
il or not, otherwise, is a matter OF no
concern to you, away off there IN
Paris ENJOYING yourself matching RIB
bons and laces, while 1 am so SICK
Pretty Ewes.
'She has beautiful eyes and the soft
est hair and il is her own, for nave
seen her comb. A sick man is priv
iIeged to see a great deal which IS
otherwise forbidden I suppose II IS
to make up for the calOmel, being the
COMPENSATION found in every sting
And when 1 call her, she comes
promptly, although she hasn't had time
to nut on her top layer of Starched
things. When rebUke her and tell
her I is not nice TO be so heedless OA
nv innate modesty, she says am get
ting well fast That is one sign
man is out of danger when ne Deslns
to notice what his nurse hasn't oP-
so you see, dear my peril Indians
would like to be a tree A tree nFes
the night, and pretty nurse within.
THE doctor saws 1 am improving,
but very, very slowly The pretty
nurse says if I continue to mend so
RAPIDLY she will be compelled to de-
mand a chaperon- And there you are
one says one thing, and one another
Feels Need of Nurse.
II think there is something wrong
with my spine, for when try 70
move. it is to learn how very limited
is my vocabulary Of swear words.
have grown so dependent on the heiP
of the pretty nurse that sometimes
can't feed myself unless one arm IS
around her neck. Isn't it distressing
how helpless sick man IS Wnen mere
is a pretty nurse around2 But then,
don't understand.
.aThe leaves are beginning to stray
gle to the ground, and never hotlCeu
before how reluctantly the trees let
them go. They hang on to them IN the
face of determined wind ana Irost'
ard Allen. who knows all a tree
moods, says there are usually Ie"
leaves left on every tree till Christmas
They are the trees last vestlSe OF
finery, her final vanity.
Il think in my next incarnation
would like to be tree A tdee ives
SO much more Sturdily, and dies so
much more gracefully than man.
I said something to this effect to the
nurse, and she replied that If / were
a tree in my next incarnation. she
supposed it would be of the lemon
family.
August 24--I am writing TINS let
ter on the instalment plan, not tnat
I get tired writing. as I did when
me write, and when she came home
yesterday, and caught me at 1t she
scOlded me
The second instalment is written
while she and Manette have gone to
hunt wild blackberries, and Richards
will mail it to you before she returns.
she says she is jealous of my I'M
known correspondent
81 suppose I should have reminded
her that she had no right to be. jeal--
GUS of any body, but 1 am afraid If
offended her she wouldn't come to re-
heve my apprehension when i'm
agine 1 hear wild indians whOOping
around the door at night.
I hope, Sally Dear, that I have
written nothing that viii excite your
apprehension or cause you to cut
short your childish enjoyment of
matching ribbons and laces in Paris.
1t is just as well that the ocean rolls
between US, for If you were here the
pretty nurse wouldn't let you see me
she won't let the suffraget who
comes over from the hotel with bou-
quets of yellow flowers and soothing
literature on That Monster Man get Z
inside the gate
Are you jealous of herr I asked Z
one dav, and she said no, she wasn't; I
that when a man was sick the last I
woman who could ever interest him I
was a suffraget. Sometimes, when /
declare the noises of the night are par
tlcularly weird, she says it Is the SUI
1raSet haranguing outside
He Signs il.
Il repeat. Sally Dear, that 1 nope /
have written nothing that viii us
quiet you Some DAYS l think 1 am (
going to die. and then I know you Will /
be sorry YOU didn't come to save me.
and the thought ALWAYS makes me feel /