Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — A Letter Every Day. [ARTICLE]

A Letter Every Day.

Pittsburg Dbpatch. Here is a pleasant recipe, which can be commended to wives whose husbands cross the sea without them. On the first night out, just as my vis-a-vis at table was sitting down to dinner in the beautiful salboh of the City of New York, a steward stepped up to him and handed him a letter, saying “With the captain’s compliments, sir.” Every night the performance was repeated. Sometimes the captain himself presented the letter. It was mysterious and interesting. The gentleman who received the letter seemed to be greatly astonished when it came to him on the first occasion, but afterward he merely showed signs of erflbyment in reading its tents. He was a very delightful man and a great favorite at our table,’ but though everybody was dying to know where the letters came from, nobody But on the day before we reached New York I happened to be standing on the companion way with this gentleman, when the captain presented the letter, and the former said as he tore open the envelope: “Queer idea of my wife, isn’t it? She sent the captain seven letters addressed to me and asked him to deliver one to me every evening before dinner. She thought I would be glad to hear from her every day, and I tell you it has been one of the pleasantest events of the voyage, this mail delivery in midoc