The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-03

Then up and seek ere youth is gone
 Whateer the toll, ue'er mind it.
 The price of postage stamps are going up girls. But what will the maidens, who will write love-letters in the year to come. for the youths who will receive them, care for that ? The amount of postage is cheap enough, for the great weight of ten derness the mails carry between two hearts. Instead of sitting on the pi- azzas of summer resorts, girls will be writing letters in their own cosy-cor- ners, at home.
 A girls first love letters are fervid and true-real indexes to her feel ings, for they open out a new world for her. If ''papa'' and mamma" in- sist upon reading her letters before they are sent, what cold, dark gray cloud comes over the spirit of her dreams. If she is upbraided for this subject, or that which a letter con- tains. the spirit of romance is ruth lessly sundered. It is robbed of the subtle charm that 8 letter carries. from the writer to the one it is sent to. There. is something about a let ter which unconscionsly finds the n0dTlS OI the TWO W HO are COIT0" spending together.
 What a boon these letters are to the man far away, who receives them! They niay be considered scarcely worth while to outsiders, but to the lover and his lass they mean so much! During the time two lov- CTS must be parted. if it were not for those assuring letters, each would be alarmed, lest the other were not always remembered. Those ten writ ten pages speak more e1oquently than words that each is dear. How quick ly earnest friendship can drop into a rendered sentiment through con- stant writing. Half of the wooing the wide world over, is carried on by the magic of love- letters. It is only the old, the cold, and the calloused who sheer at them, or declare them to be over-sentimental.
 If one or the other of two lovers permits days or even weeks ito slip by before answering a letter, the one who watches and waits, until hope deferred maketh the heart sick has every reason to believe that interest is waning. What should the waiting one do? For the many hearts already in this plight, I would say: When it gets to be a task to answer a letter, there is no love there. Even inter- est is gone. Continuing to write, without receiving a reply is time lost If it is woman who suffers this em- barrassment, a man has a great deal more respect for her if she comes out and frankly writes him: 'I know your are tired of corresponding. am looking. at it in the same way. So you can suit yourself in regard to ever answering my letters again. This dash of independence, raises the girl a notch in mans estimation.
 It is the nature of man even though he may have ceased to love a. woman, to be pleased to think that he still holds the same little warm spot in her heart He ponders long and earnestly over such a letter, con- cluding some other man mas come win her from him. Ten to one he sends her a long. and apologetic let ter before he sleeps that night re- plete with eagerness to renew her faith in him. Of all things that a man does dislike is the thought o1 being cut by another man. It is a stab to his pride to consider himself unable to win girl with whom he has been corresponding for any length of time.
 A man will put more tenderness ir answering a girls letters than he could have couraged to utter in heI presence. With a girl, even if 1t is her first love-affair, she does not need coaching as to how to reply Her heart directs that. The letters of closely written lines that come te him from her is a barometer. which | informs him correctly. whether he1 regard for him, is warm, or cold. | I say: blessed are love letters. What an influence they exert over mans l life. The greatest men of all times that the world has ever known, have not considered writing love letters beneath their dignity. Indeed they have proved themselves experts al
 sentimental missives, that, few who
 knew them, could imagine them ca pablo of penning. Don't chide the girls for writing ten page letters tc
 the youths far away. God knows they
 cheer them, as nothing else in this
 world can. Many gallant soldiers vii wear such letters over their hearts
 as charms against dangers and mas cots to insure happiness.
 l There is one thing that the girl.
 who are writing these love-letter. must remember and that is: They may be censored and read by tho cold, unsympathetic eyes of other.
 employed for that purpose. There
 fore, such epistles should not be over loaded with sentiment-the young men for whom they are intended vii take that for granted and be grate ful for not being made a laughing stock of, should they by chance fal into other hands.
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