Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-21

Dear Corner Friends. T enclose letter from sammy. one from Harriet, telling all about Mary's visit. and a note from Belle. When you've read them. please send for them all to read, and ask them to return to me.
 with my love, as ever,
 "JENNIE.'
 So ended q letter q saw short time ago) from one woman to her sister. She Is a fine. honorable person. She would never dream of reading letter left on a desk or table. Yet, in her weekly letters to her sister she usually en- closes several received from friends or other members of the family.
 If sha stopped to think, she would probably not send her correspondence about in this fashion For the writers Of the letters do not write the sos* of ihings liate oig relates to whole, famiif And. sheRiss them is like listen ing tef7 iovssvoieed conyersation in the Some families. of course. have a more or less regular roaDd robin ser vice, which s~no breach af anYene's confidence. I know one girl private secretary. who every week writes on her typewriter a long and detailed let ter to her invalid mothef She slips in osrbony and nlal5es aght copies, whien ltAFhLB tliLHldi@Jf h itAl SltG. lucy are good letters 4andf please great many people bektdei sner mother It Is perfectly Bnder@oea that anyone who cares enough alfoiH her 10 want to see them may have them regularly, and they are a reais feature of the office where she used tp work and a joy to gToups of family friends. in several cit ies. Using your own Judgment aboelt Showing lttters, however, is a different matter. A
 Family feelings and interest is a beautiful thing and it should be kept F1 and cherished by letters that tell all the news, or big "round-robins' which each menSer adds to as the let ter goes around
 But everyone knows that disastro6s criticism and prejudice often result from jH7timed or unfortunate knowl- edge even ip harmonious family. Il Aunt Mayythinks that Helen I1s silly reading Hklen,s gay foolish Nttle letters te her mstber will not mend matters Nor will Fit help Cousin Maria's op;n- ion of young Henry to fsee his hams badly spelled scrawis from school His niother sees only the love in his awly- ward phrase, or two at their end bu. Cousin Maria thinks him far different from the ideal youth of her early days and peEses her lips niore closely.
 Two girls once had reasonable harDy sort of friendship.f 4 One day, ffli younger Of the two wrote to an oldel girl and gave her 2 long, enthusiastic almost gushing aceouht of her friend To the older girl t seemed a beantifn touching letter; the affection and en thusiasn were to her very lovely, An, know" she thought. that Helen doe realize how much Ramonia cares fo her.
 Thereupon, in the real goodness. Q her heart she wrote to Helen, enelos ing a sheet from poor RamonaAs letter sheet of analysis that Ramona neve would have uttered or never weut have written for Helen's eye. That let ter did not accomplish what the olde girl had hoped. To Helen it scene fuison1e and insincere, and 1t made he self-conscious with Ramona More over, there were two or-three inadveri ent, keen little remarks that she con sidered unjust criticism and could nc help resentjng.s From that time. th two never fgot -on.@ and 1t was all tn fault of a defective sense of honor I well-meanihg friend.
 Every tirne you hand a. letter cart lessly to someone with a ''want to SC it?' you may be doing just the san thing, though in less disaytror form.
 lOt nlOiL iS more common. than or realizes. Big br0fheFs white hosr cruel jokes on their little sisters. an whiie the whole family laughs over tl letter the child grows bitterly sens tive. i.r
 An engaged girl. in her pride ar happiness. may even show to a clos friend her letters< from her lover inc frieun. however. who has not exac ly fbe same point of view as the yous naBcee, the letter appears weak aT foolish. and t~is likely to be some ts.- before shes.can see the perfectly nat rel yeuDg man in his true light.
 Nothing is quite so interesting as really personal letter. The stories aH auticies that everyone wants to re; nre those written with the freedom ai laaix of reserve that one feels toWarl dear friend But thae is the ve reason why the letters enc Feeeiv should be guarded SO carefully
 Common custom may be lax abe letters, but they have law of the own and fa the eyes of that law t narthpr of tke letter owns it. The ia hat t k sdftessd te ypl' dosIs ]