Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-12
LETTER WRITING AS A BAD
HABIT TOLD OF BY HASKIN
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskip

mash notes or love letters from UNI
known admirers as are received by
feminine artists of equal pre-emi-
nence. Moreover, they say that the
letters received by men who have
achieved stardom on the stage or on
the screen are UNNECESSARILY more
mushy and maudlin In their express
sions of admiration and sentiment.
A man may admire a woman
whom he has known only ae he has
seen her on the stage or on the
sereen and may write to her in the
hope that he may bring about a per-
sonal acquaintance, but as a rule
that . about as far as he goes until
he receives some announcement. On
the other hand, when women or
young girls fall for a theatrical
hero they are apt to deluge him with
the most fervid love letters and
MAINTAIN a one-sided correspondence
of that nature for weeks and months.
and about fifty per cent of the mail
delivered daily in Hollywood and its
environs is said to be of this char
aeter.
There is one form of making a
written record of folly in which the
fair and gentle sex unquestionably
excels, and that is in keeping a diary.
When a man keeps a diary it is
usually for purely literary or histori-
cal purposes, or as a business Tecord.
But when a woman goes in for that
sort of diversion 1t seems that she Is
generally animated by an uncontroll-
able desire to register chronological
ly every event and every emotion of
some affair of the heart. This APP
pears to be an especial weakness of
romantic females who ooner Or
later discover that they love a man
so ardently that they just naturally
have to shoot him as proof of their
affection. Anyhow, such diaries are
frequently produced in court when
some fair defendant is seeking ac-
qulttal on a murder charge, and the
jury is being asked to accept homi-
eide as the natural consequence of
heart anguish.
1t is a long reach from love to
politics, but records would indicate
that men are as prone to write let
ters that may damn OF ruin them
politically as they are to indite the
tender missives that come up to
plague them in divorce and breach of
promise suits.
II would seem that a man wise
enough and clever enough to attain
high official hOnors would have
brains enough to refrain from writ
ing letters or maintaining a cores
pondence which il published might
wreck his caree Such is not al
ways the case. however. Not in
frequently it has happened that a
man who could almost claim with
Monte Christie that the world was his
has discovered suddenly that he has
no more future than a Cancelled
postage STAMP. and all because he
once wrote a letter, or received one,
that should never have been writ
ten.
Not so long ago two men of OPP
posite political parties who enjoyed
nationwide fame and g rated as
exceptionally able were driven out
Of public life because some n got
hold of a batch of letters that could
not be explained once they had been
published to the world. One is now
dead and the other is a soured, en-
FILTERED individual who is no longer
good company even for himself.
And the moral of all this is, don't
write a letter of any kind that you
would not be perfectly willing tc
have the whole world read.