Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-22
T Ii G y ally
Short Story
Al LOVE LETTER
BY f. A Mite heI.

a
YOURS To Adele. She lis lovely ami
noble girl and / am delighted DO well
come her into our family circle am
glad TO bc with you at this time In
lis very important to YOU and Adele
consider marriage the most important
event iu ones life. il is. unlike h.~r,
ana death. controlled. / trust SOU and
Adele VIII take Il seriously. and ahava
atf things do not fall into that siczIv
sentlmentallsU SO common among Low
el5- Love letters. SO called. GlLed with
gush are especially to ba avoided
Write plain common sense To each
other. with your plans for subject mat
ter. ouuhne yourselves in the begin
ming TO dear Adele and dear Tom
Think how stupid il VIII seem 10 Won
later ON TO come across dearest
sweetest AdcIet she will be than
Thousand times dearer to you than eha
IFS today bur yoH will not show 5t In
amy such ridiculous way
"I)iant you write love letters DO MIA
when you were engaged, dad
II don't remember just what wrote
your mother replied Mr. BraeFaft
trying 70 think back to period when
he Fas 81 u was considered matter
oG fact chap, and j ann quite sumo
never INDUCED ia loVey-dovay nom
sense
what Tom ana AdeIe's letters were
like does not pertain Go this story
quite likely they were what most
young lovers write Shortly before
their marriage Tom went up into the
garnet 20 gather such effects AS ha
WIS ned TO take with him 10 his new
home and destroy what had lost f-s
original value. Rummagiug iu au I'D
trunk which contained various family
effects he came across a bunch of old
papers tntgins q bundle oil letters
bound together with faded narrow
ribbon iu lieu Of tape, he examined
them, noting that they had been writ
tea nearly q aUaFter@0E a century be-
fore. He read "a number of them .bsn
selecting one OF them rebound the
rest and put them back where ha had
found them
The evening before the wedding the
bride H4 groom to be diued with the
BRACKETS When the meal was finish
ed amt coffee was brought on Tom took
letter from his pocket and said to
his father:
Dad Won gave me a lecture when T
became engaged on love letter writing
which made a deep impression on me
found the other day while ruumaE-
ING among old papers one OF those rt-
dlculous epistles written by some fell
low WAC must have had the lover fever
very aaatF Il has convinced me that
you are right II reading such 50cl-
meuJ produces such contempt for the
writer. what would T think OF myself
IF reading such letter written tF
myself 20 years from uoWtT
Tom handed the letter 20 his father
who pHC on his glasses and parusad b.
lt read as follows
ay AhEel--3ou think that Z eEar-
51I@1e la Gaining You an angel do
7o oe1aHee You are puFef. better
ti13i9t taaA any EfFt have ever
SHOWN. only wish j were with sou
10 a+d 1ellt- teH5 you so fhalea. al
.'.---a r. "2aI4 taee You 5H F
~ -'- =at9 Yea q tAlll1oH KISSES
l9oAe+ Tor q letter from you aT
mai ost IL ola nos come, 50
J. pose - 4o5 get u MI noon
naive READ tae one received yesterday
2. -l-es- put u under my pillow
" gen "7iLs 70 97a mat 10 might lead
were stts4A5 III q garden OF
-.-' ~ .i21 tifat5a me pins nl
- 4t s4l tetAi+lila4 OF your
--b7-
ape lA disgust
aC ~, aa4a Aat5-
Fl" lAt fepAea the father. a1 an
...- t=-L ~ pages o. s1eh 5lcEanla
a9 l-lait emo Wrote II -Aoa.a
'eeH lafIea ana Laataer9a ana
loaeh on rail ! pity the girl who
ilaIIIa.. ann. 10 doubt he tried .e
music. love and flowers would suit
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