Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-29

One Unlmportant Reason Why Col.
umn Writer'S Never Fake Letters
10 That They Don't Have To.
- The Mails Are Full
By SARAH ID. LOWRIE

BY SARAH ID. LOWR1E
COME ONE asked ME the other day II
Odid not think that Mr.. House. of the
PUBLIC LEDGER made up the correspond
column with from time to time. 1 said that
from even my limited. experience he ought
to be able to Gull from his daily mail speci.
mems upon which to let his wit play without
going to the trouble Of imagining them.
The letters that sound funny when they
are printed are. the ones written by persons
who are mad clear through with the person
to whom they write. They are meant to be
lashing or, cutting, and they aim at. sccrn
somehow they do not hit anything but the
funny bone. I fancy, because they do not
seem to have been shot OF by. one who has
any notion of the real person he Is address.
Ing. You cannot take scOlding seriously
that Is meant for some one else. y,
| got a letter recently that made me
grin all day because of one sentence in
IL which calls up picture that is so unlike
me that 1t would make the most disapprov-
ing person that knows me smile at me
TT JUST happened that had to begin
L the morning by besuiling a lot Of
women from all over the countryside to col
lect money for cause that was, to say the
particularly popular with some Of them:
and ! had to end the morning in another
crowd by holding up the easy passage OF n
article which had IN 10 With tba navment
of duo. tmou ,hat ortIo,a ,,n~iI he
nasscI and thnt INV '"a "m.m5mon+ wom,l bo
auashed. and that ont Of the zoo women
present no one would quite agree with me.
but l knew also that in the long run my
those nrosont ,ora ..r.,enu en ,roum @ must VI
Tho day ended with my listening to the
debate and the recording Of the votes for
her, into tho ConvontSnn - ,h. nin,ase -
Pennsvivon;o ues mo- or,i"r,arIv ;ntorssted
TO listen TO tho debate md 70 observe the
vote hecouss T bad heer nns - ths or;,,noi
si.nsrs ~ tha tho, wnnon,or nst,tias %
thc mon aovern;nn fhe Chnrnh .sS;n. thor, ~
20 r.no~,sso ,,.n,,o Io,..ntns =. a. as.", .n"'
tion. and it so happened that this winter I
had been chosen by the women Of the
Church Club to publicly debate the question
in the affirmative with the men. Not an
Of the other dcbaters made a dificuIt task
at least gracious one.
This day of all Others, therefore. found me
listening to folks or discoursing with folks
from morning till evening. and at least twice
having to stand alone in the matter OF nm
appeal to lot of strangers.
The letter that made me grin because of
the odd picture it drew Of me was from a
woman who had written to ask for half an
hour Of my time to speak to me about some
hy sn,mS WIS 3d. 30 ! wro'e-wi5n mine own
me an idea of what bcr ousndary wns Inv
letter. so that I might the better iudpe II
I could be of use to her by seeing her.
Nov this Is her letter. And knowing
~ what my day has been, it is easy to see
why what was meant to be scathing in Il
only made me laugh q little, even while I
felt sorry that for both our sakes the writer
had sized my actual self IN so mistakenly.
I print the letter not to be funny about
1t. but because It is a sample Of one Kind
Of letter that editors get which, as n rule.
either 70 into the waste basket or into the
funny column" and quite fall short Of the
editors heart or mind:
N,, . 1000
Do,u Nodor1 rooo,,od -. =, i"... H.
,odov and ;"s, wanteJ ,n COZ !ot th,s WI
tIn s,ma class "s ,o",s.,e 81 So: ::,t uat am
wostor, n;tS 40 Wantnj -. "out" i Iionn
corta;n nnost;or hoor;mn -" ~" non ,r 'ou a
osa;.a nnn.n v" o'S.ms s on III! own
EWrNIxC pITa,ic "T rnnrn nnu haa.i, ar.'ess IN
snh;cct Rut nitS.n no,, W. oeat s t,.,,', oh my
meet stranger or vH, lack tne ord,narv
| let us say human, interest in folks In frv
to reach, them other than tbromuh The
newspaper. NV mistake. am SIRE
can ask others whom know and shall do
| so. Pardon NV temeritv in wr;tinn IN
you. Yours truly, etc.
|
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| NJ '''''u u'eS 'ol quite MT OH my
| makesun: nor am | recluse exactly !!
| Too bad! For we might have had such a
| nice time eventually talking over the "somc-
ming Mn'th sht coIia not prepare Inc for
| D! nam.k IN her le.ter; put then. as q
ine whom Sbo" sbo bes"Icd sun dnto 10 friend OF