People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — DON’T SAVE LETTERS. [ARTICLE]

DON’T SAVE LETTERS.

The Uscleicaess ot Allowing Old Mlulvei to Accumulate. Tear up all letters that it is not necessary to preserve as soon as you have read then! They accumulate in the most amazing way if you don’t, and take up a great deal of room, to no purpose. For my part, I think the reading over of old missives is rather a sad affair, and could well be dispensed with. It is very seldom that one doesn’t suggest a melancholy train of thought. If the writer isn’t dead the chances are that he or she has changed, and the written lines fail to, give us the pleasure that they once did. I am looking an old letter over at this moment, and my eye strikes this line: “I don’t think I ever loved anybody on this earth as Ido Henry Lane. If he should propose to mo I woul-i Ye ths happiest girl in the world.” Ah me! Henry Lane did propose to her and they were married. I saw her the other day leading two children, and the three were so shabby that my heart ached for them. Her husband drinks, gambles and neglects her, so says common rumor, and she is doing dressmaking. And she had a seamstress for every stitch of work when she was a girl.— N. Y. Recorder.