Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-18

Letters to this column afford never
failing inspiration and entertainment
to the writer here. A letter Is per-
sonal thing; it comes from one person
to another pe.son; others seldom see II
unless through unusual circumstances
Permit us to supply the unusual
circumstances, for the time being, anc
serve up here few of our recent let
tiers. in the belief that other readers
will find them at once entertaining and
instructive.
From the American consulate al
Iourenco Marques. Portuguese East
Africa. we received recently the fol-
lowing:
Dear Sir: Keep the cat stories CO.
ing, If for no other reason than this
country-woman Of yours in darkest
Africa.
my subscription of The Star is
taken secondarily for the JOY Jack
Spratt affords me.
My Michael. sleek haired ball OF
fluff that he is. sends you regards
Michael is Zulu cat and as black as
ebony.
with appreciation to Charles E
Tracewell, himself, from (Mrs.) w. O. 5.
It isn't every day, of course, that one
receives letter from Africa. We can
assure other writer's, however. that
their letters are none the less apprecl-
ated because they have not travelled Sc
many miles.
Here is a good one from the District
of Columbia: 49,,
Dear Sir: AS an amateur-who still
hopes-to writer who has arrived,
send this little greeting, just to tell you
how much have enjoyed and appreci-
ated your recent articles on how to
write
Perhaps one is always thrilled over
finding a kindred spirit; by that ]
mean one who thinks as we think, at
least along certain lines. SO when l
read your thoughts as to ways ano
means of writing which exactly agreed
with my own experience, felt I'M
PEELED, as by an unseen force, TO SIT
down, pencil in hand, and tell you
about it.
Perhaps you are too big a man in
your profession to open your own let
tiers: perhaps you have long gotten over
feeling rejoiced that your words have
struck an answering chord in still
struggling would be- If so. you'll never
see this. But even so, have had the
pleasure of writing it, and II you do
read 1t will you answer 1t by writing
more articles along the same line?
Your talks on flowers. too, have
given me much pleasure. but I do not
thrill over cats-due to early. most un-
pleasant experiences with them. How
ever, the cat articles were read by me,
as well as by thousands who do love
them
with no apologies for the pencil u
write better this way, very sincerely
yours, C. P"
We hasten to tell this kind CORE
spondent and others that We have no
secretary, that we personally open every
letter written us, and always get as
much thrill out of the last one As from
the first we received, almost i've years
ago.
Dear Sir: What follows Is written
under the assumption that one who
labors daily to put before his readers
something worth while Is not averse to
word of praise, even from one I'M
known and undistinguished.
The reading of your semi-philosopn-
ical articles appearing regularly IN
The Star gives me both much pleasure
and instruction.
1T found your article on the subjective
and the objective personalities particu-
larry good. This, of course. means that
I am conceited enough to number my
self with the subjectives as far as my
restricted mentality will permit.
I'm another article occurred this par
agraph: '"Being in rut." as it Is
called. Is a great deal better than being
in a bread line. Many "rut" Is lined