The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-25
DO MEN CARE TO
 WRITE LOVE LETTERS :?

"K1nd messages that pass from land to land,
 Sweet letters that betray the hearts
 deep mystery,
 In which one feels the pressur> of a hand,
 One touch of fre-and all the rest is
 mystery"
 When a. man on the eve of his de- parture to some faraway place prom 1ses a, young lady that he will write to her, his intentions just then are the best in the world generally. It is not until he has reached his destination and a week or more has slipped by that he starts to put his intent into execution.
 The writing room of the hotel is well --f-rh filled by both men and women at the different tables The scratching of scores of pens, people holding conver- sation and many feminine eyes bent upon him are quite enough to distract most amy mans thoughts. He clutches his pen frantically but firmly His thoughts seem to be in utter chaos. The great puzzle to most men is how to begin a letter and after that what they shall write about.
 He tears up dozen sheets of paper ere he gets fully launched into the spirit of it.. He is in love with her, but has never told her of it in so many words. He wishes to goodness there was some dictionary at hand to which he could refer as the correct thing to inspire an out-and-out love letter or an uninteresing, polite one. The po- lite letter sounds too cold. He decides that wouldn't do. The intense love letter he has written to carefully might frightAn her. All he can think arrived here safe. Could not get a. wink of sleep on that confounded old s1eepine car for thinking of you. I am wond dering if you are missing me, or if there's some other fellow sitting in your parIor, holding your hands and talking nonsense to you I'll tell you this much, Ena-the longer I am away from you the lonelier I get. There isn't a girl ont here (and I've met some few of theTn) who can hold a candle to you. Now here's the truth, Er1-I love you. If you love me just it. I'll have something more fnpor- tant to write you.''
 He reads it over not once but a doz- en times. He concludes it's jerky He hasn't got at what he intended to say quite. right. In annoyance, he tears 1t up and filings it into the waste bas- ket. There's a line of impatient, a1- most angry, people awaiting his place. He jumps Up with alacrity, thinking. tomorrow or next day-some other tinne-wilI do.
 A few further attempts, and he gives up the task as futile. He concludes not one man out of a hundred is capa- ble of writing a satisfactory letter. But he is not quite sure how he stands in her affections.
 No! Emphaticany few men care to con1it themselves by writing love let ters when they are sure of their sweet heart let alone he whom a girl keeps guessing as to her interest in him. No young woman should upbraidN a man for not writing during his absence There's no knowing how many at tempts he. may have made to Den them, failing ignozninously. Most men would rather go a thousand miles to see girl than to write one love letter
 Tearing ssYes'' to, his marriage pro- posal is sweeter to him by far than the tenderest letter of acceptance she could write to him. But, all the same do not forget to write love letters to your sweetheart when you're away.