The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-09

/ know you must think that lam |
writing you regular books, but every
thing is just at perfect standstill,
and there are not any more dances
or card parties. or anything, and so
am wasting my sweetness all On you.
My dear, you never saw anything
like it. We are cut off from the
world, and have no idea whether
you are getting these letters or not.
But it relieves my mind to write to
you. and when you do get them you
can read them on the installment
plan.
My child, you don't know any
thing in the world about living until
you get to Pensacola. ghis is the
most fascinating city in the world.
I am so glad Dad came here to live.
1t is romantic, say what you will.
wrote you all about that terrible
smash up and the way was rescued
and everything, and l felt in my soul
that real romance had at last dawn
ed for me in this city of romance.
Do you believe in love at first sight,
Dorothea? I have always told you
everything, and so now I am going
to tell you the one great secret of
my life. I am in love. Desperately,
absolutely, with a man I never set
eyes on until / looked up into his face
in the glare of his electric flash, and
heard him say something about my
eyes.
We have been positively marooned
at Milicent's, and there are not any
parties, for you can't get anybody
over the phone, and it looks every
minute as if it were going to storm
again, so we have just sat tight, and
/ have found out that there is some
thing in the world besides bridge and
dancing and all of those terribly friv-
olous things in which ! used to be
interested.
1t seems such a long time ago
since / cared for such things. James
Isn't it funny, his name really was
James, after all-James IL awfully in
terested in serious things, and l am
/ glad that / too care for the real is
sues of life.
was just little shocked at first
when heard he was a socialist, and I
don't really know what Dad will
think about it. I don't think he has
ever been to Russia, and he never
shot anybody in his life, but he be-
ieves in labor versus capital, and all
that kind of thing, and talks about
them in the most interesting way. ]
can't remember all he says, for he
has the longest lashes and the best
looking nose ever saw on a man.
and sometimes forget to listen, be-
cause his voice has such dear little
caressing notes in it, even when he
is saying hard things about the gov
eminent. He is crazy for the storm
to be over though, so he can go t.
Mexico. He believes in preparedness
and 1 was certainly glad found thai
out, for I am sure Dad never would
allow me to have friendship with
man who wouldn't fight for hi
country. Dad is so militant.
And that reminds me, he believes II
suffrage.
Really, when you come to thinl
! about it, those women have som'
{ rights. Why should we keep then
, from voting? He does not believ
! in women being pampered, but think
) that women and men should be equal
and not superiors-the men, mean.
There is the bell, and he is due, a
four, so l will finish this later.
must rush into some gOodlookin
$ clothes.
My dear, 1 have had the most awfu
= shock IN the world. He is engaged
1t was that horrid little gossip, Al
: phonso Tribble, who heard about tn
= smash up-it was in the papers
. my child-and came up here to te,
me that he is engaged to be Marie
! to girl in Macon.
Phonso Tribble will never get
rise out of me. I took his news Xix
a lamb and told him that I knew
], all the time. But it was a shocl
I. You know it is when you meet a ma
s like that and find that he belong
. to somebody that you don't even know
!. l suppose that is the reason he talke
: on such serious subjects.
{ I have not told you any news {
J. all. I wonder if you know that jamie
: and Eve have gone to New York.
: think it is the most interesting thing
3 Janice is social secretary and make
piles of money and Eve is going
study interior decorating.
d They have invited me to join thel
!. and 1 think I will go. do not Sc
j. what people want to dance all tt
d time for and play bridge and spen
9 their time in fiirtations. AS for m
l. I am weary of this town. used