The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25
WHY MANY WHO COULD LOVE
ARE PARTED.


ARE PARTED.
''Twere best that happiness unknown
Should ever thus remain,
Than to grasp it but to find it flown,
To ne'er return again.
Twere best that joys that love can
bring,
Should e'er remain unborn;
Than pluck the rose to feel the sting
Of cruel, hidden thorn"
Many man and woman puts a
cruel stigma upon mythical fate
which it does not deserve. In reality
it is the downright carelessness of the
one, or the other, which defeated
Cupid's plan Of joint two hearts in
loves sacred marriage bond. Many
a man tells as the reason why he has
never welded, that in his earlier life
he met and fell in love with a beauti-
full girl, wrote her a letter asking her
to be his wife which she took 10
notice of, and from that hour their
lives drifted apart. His admiration,
nay his love for the girl cannot be
questioned, nor the fact that he pro-
posed marriage to her by letter; but,
through masculine carelessness, in
nine cases out of ten, a man is so agi-
tated he jots down the wrong address,
probably sending it to some one of
the dozen fair maidens who, in the
past, had been on his correspondence
| list, and, to make matters worse, had
quite omitted the formality of begin
ming the epistle with his own address
or ending with his name. The dead
letter Office has little compassion for
laundering lovers or their romances.
The girl In the case wonders why the
young man who seemed so smitten
with her drops off from calling with
out even word to inform her of the
reason She is aware, too, that he
turns abruptly aside rather than meet
her.
Wonlanly pride comes to her res
cue. She cared for him more than
she had realized, but he will never
know that by her manner. It is not
often that they ever find out what
parted them. The years rush in be-
tween. Other lovers crowd about her
to press their suits; the man meets
other fair women. Each consoles him
or herself that it was not to be, look
ing no further for the cause.
The fluttering of a lovers heart
should not impair the judgement OF
a lovers cool head; he should see that
his all important nissive is properly
addressed; also, that it bears his
name in full, with address at the enc
of it, that he may know whether il
reached the hands of his ladylove OF
wandered far afield. The persistent
lover who is terribly in earnest should
not take his dismissal through silence
but should insist on a reply from the
: young woman's own lips, or by let
ter from her hand. Girls are equally
as careless, charging up to fate, wher
in reality the reason rested will
themselves. Many a girl forgets t,
address her letter of acceptance, to,
preoccupied with her happy thought
to note that she has mailed perfect
lily plain, unaddressed envelope, or tn
: stamp was lacking. The clerks in tn
dead letter Office have no means of 10
eating Home, June 30th,' or KNOWN
who clio" might be, and it becomes
part of the great heap marked "ur
able to be identified" to be destroyed
And many hearts, loving and tru,
go lone and starved the whole wa
through.
II Letters are not the only cause I
turning aside the course of true Low
Many girl has murmured mis-
1 chievous "No" to mans proposal (
marriage, expecting to be coaxed int
changing her mind. If he lets it g
I at that, she has many an hour of sol
row in rueing it.
II The reason why so many congeni,
couples who could love each other d,
/ votedly, but are parted by one eli
cunstances of another, should often /
it involves the future happiness {
1 two lives. When young woman r,
ceives an offer of marriage by mail,
certainly merits the courtesy of r,
ply. The man who fails to receive
responce, should not rest content
taking silence for his answer. It
due him to be told either Eyes" I
"no."
II Miss Libby's answers to your lie
tiers. Correct name and address mu