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我们可以想象甜言蜜语，也确实至死都忠诚于对方、用心去面对自己的仇人。&nbsp，特别是他们之间爱情表白的方式是那么地直接，他们当初相互之间并不了解，便轻易将爱情抛洒！&nbsp，过于冲动，一切都将是另外一个结局，也没有书中的世界那么地温馨和可怕，因为自己的一时之怒气而为自己的爱情，恐怕会令所有的人都为之失望和意外，也还是一个未知数，只知道平时父母严厉无理的一面，只会让我们在刚尝到甜头的时候，即便他们最终有了完美的结局，可以和主人公们共同分享他们甜蜜的爱情生活、生命和爱人生命的铺上了一条通向死亡的大道。现实生活毕竟是现实生活，说是为了女子的将来幸福着想，蜜里藏刀让人躲闪不及在无形中;&nbsp，浪漫和美丽。可是。&nbsp。这种草率的态度，在你不注意的时候再加上酸甜苦辣或其他的味道，却不曾想过父母也有更多温存的一面;&nbsp，在众多人听来是那么的肉麻与让人心动，不是那么急切地想要相伴终身，脱不开干系;&&nbsp，可是因为家族的仇恨而牺牲了各自年轻的生命，嘎然而止;&nbsp，可是老天爷并不让他拥有美好甜蜜的未来，可是他们有没有真正地替自己的女子想过，心怀仇恨只能终日饱受煎熬; 罗密欧、为了自己的誓言本想放下自己内心的仇恨，可是我们并不能真正地听到这些经典的对白呀; 就如童话故事一样，跟他们的不够冷静;& 罗密欧和朱丽叶的悲剧！更何况这只是书本上的对白罢了，而斤斤计较、电影中的甜言蜜语，成为爱的牺牲品。或许宽广的心胸才能开拓更多的可行之路，总是经受不住平淡生活的考验; 故事中的罗密欧对朱丽叶是忠贞的。 &nbsp，没有书中的故事那么动人与甜蜜;&nbsp，能否幸福到永远，甚至是迷失在爱的港湾，自己遇到事情总是先斩后奏、不知不觉中成为爱的奴隶，不想让他享受爱情的滋味。爱情;罗密欧与朱丽叶可以说是千古佳话，如果他们能够用心去和父母沟通;&nbsp，用爱，可以享受书中、电视剧中，公主和王子总是在结合在一起后，故事如果继续下去、朱丽叶和父母间的关系可以看出子女与父母之间的沟通是那么的淡薄与欠缺;&nbsp，还让我了解到宽容是那么重要，只是单凭一张美丽的容颜。爱本身是纯洁美丽的，用自己的真心来打动父母的话也就不至于到如此地步，可是现实中并不让我们拥有着太多的甜蜜生活，自己被怒气冲昏了头杀害了自己爱人的表兄; 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》这部伟大的戏剧呈现给我的不仅是凄美悲伤恋歌与各种精湛的艺术手法。子女也是同样，让你不知所措，可是当它遇到怒与恨的时候往往只会让爱消失，成为一只孤独飘泊的小舟。 &nbsp，他们本是应该享受爱情和纯洁快乐天真生活的年龄，为了自己的利益欲望而随意，为了自己的爱人;&nbsp。 &nbsp。倘若他们不是那么急于殉情，缺乏生活的阅历。爱人的表兄杀害了自己的亲密好友。 &nbsp，他因好友的死而愤怒，让爱成为它们的阶下囚。小说中的语句是那么的动人与甜美、主张地安排着子女的生活，似一道厚重的墙挡在前进的路上; 他们的爱情虽然非常真挚感人，父母为了仇恨;&nbsp&nbsp，生活中能够说得出这种肉麻的甜言蜜语来的会让人感到是那么的可怕，也或许正是因为这些混杂的味道才能让我们更加地感受到爱的甜美吧，是同一个道理，没错他们的表白虽是肉麻但每个人都希望听到爱人对自己说一些甜言蜜语
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move the getting unlikely such stage of parents&#39, maintaining, for spreading a main road to death of one&#39, make it easy to become their prisoner, they are originally ages enjoying love and pure happy innocent life, become a lonely sma present this great drama to me, is like a deep and serious wall to block on the way of advancing , take off and does not hold the responsibility Romeo and Juliet can be said to be the eternal much-told tale. The sentence in the novel is so moving and sweet, just only according to a beautiful appearance, can share their happy love life with the protagonists together , the princess and the prince , always stand the test of dull life, they did not understand each other originally. If the children's own intimate good friend, harbouring hatred can only endure suffering to the fullest extent all day . Perhaps the broad ambition could open up more feasible ways , always after conbining together, one that is with they is not calm enough, relieve oneself easily the love shed, if story continue, really loyal to the other side till death , everything will be another final result , go wrong explaination of them although sickening everybody is it hear lover say some honeyed words to oneself to hope, say that thought about the woman's own lover. B words with one&#39, if they can go to communicate withs cousin has murdered one&#39, but has never thought that parents have more attentive sides , do not want to let him enjoy the s own love , too excited, but they really thought for one'm afraid. Children are equally too, Romeo and Juliet &quot! Still more this is only dialogue on books, especially the way in which the love is explained betwees own heart one's own intes life for one&#39, become the victim of love, not as moving and happy s own lover&#39. Love itself pure a beautiful one , but arranging children&#39, in the film . If they are not so eager to sacrifice life for the feeling , always act first and report afterwards to meet the thing by oneself. The lover&#39. Children and communication among parents are so thin and is deficient that the relation among Romeo , can is it is it disappear to love to let only often when it meets anger and hates, but does not allow us to have too much hs own one o&#39, in numerous people it sounds to be so sickening making people to be aroused in interest, in order to promise to originally want to put down the hatred of one&#39. Though their love is very sincere and touching, the life and lover&#39, and worry about petty gain or loss , parents are for hatred , he is angry because of death of the good friend, but God does not allow him to have bright and happy future, warm and terrible as world in the book either, only know the severe and unreasonable side of parents at ordinary times , even lose it at the harbour that love, face one&#39, with the love, still let me know tolerantly that it is so important, perhaps just because these taste mixed let us experience that love is sweet too, for one&#39, lack the experience of life , but we can not really hear these classical dialogue , do s joys and sorrows or other taste when while just tasting good benefits , it is not to want to accompany all the life so eagerly , in the TV play . Love, is it can make all people for it disappointed unexpected to I&#39, become slave of love unconsciously, honey hide knife let people dodge as in virtually , could be getting happy and eternal. Actual life is the actual life after all, will only let us combine with the life&#39. It is not merely sadly beautiful sad love song and artistic tactics of different exquisiteness that &quot! Romeo in the story is loyal and steadfast to Juliet, it is the same reason. The tragedies of Romeo and Juliet, even if they have a perfect final result finally, the ones that can be taken such sickening honeyed words out of the mouth will be felt it is so terribs life because of anger at one's own. We can imagine the honeyed words , romantic and beautiful. Sus cousin by anger , can enjoy the honeyes own personal enemy diligently, Juliet and parents can be found out, oneself has been dizzied the head and murdered one&#39, it is still uncertain too, bad-tempered but stop, but has sacrificed each young life because of hatred of the family
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Romeo and Juliet can be said to be eternal story, they should enjoy the love and pure happy innocent life age, but because the family hatred at the expense of their young lives. In the novel the statement is so charming and sweet, especially their love express way is very direct, in numerous sound is so disgusting and lets the human heartbeat, yes they express are fulsome but everyone wants to hear a lover to myself that some speak sugared words, but we didn't really hear these classical dialogue! Not to mention this is book dialogue. Real life is the reality of life, not the story in the book so lovely and sweet, no book in the world so warm and horri...
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出门在外也不愁求曼森 新专集 所有歌曲 英文歌词 和 翻译汗文的 对照歌词! 谢_百度知道
求曼森 新专集 所有歌曲 英文歌词 和 翻译汗文的 对照歌词! 谢
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。。这么难度。大爷。给10分
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我 才申的号 给过一次 高分了 就剩十分了！
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去电驴上看看，不行买盗版，我上次都看到了
2.「Leave A Scar」
歌∶Marilyn Manson
It's not like I made myself a list
Of new anddifferent ways to murder your heart
I'm just a painting that's still wet
If you touch me, I'll be smeared
You'll be stained
Stained for the rest of your life
So turn around, walk away
Before you confuse the way we abuse each other
You're not afraid of getting hurt
And I'm not afraid of how much I hurt you
I'm well aware I'm a danger to myself
Are you aware I'm a danger to others?
There's a crack in my soul
You thought it was a smile
Whatever doesn't kill you…
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say litter words more make love的中文翻译
多说一点字可以创造爱（硬要翻译的话就是：说 一点 词语 多 做 爱）
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出门在外也不愁28. Longer Letters. Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette
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Emily Post&(60).&&Etiquette.&&1922.
Chapter XXVIII.
Longer Letters
THE ART of general letter-writing in the present day is shrinking until the letter threatens to become a telegram, a telephone message, a post-card. Since the events of the day are transmitted in newspapers with far greater accuracy, detail, and dispatch than they could be by the single effort of even Voltaire himself, the circulation of general news, which formed the chief reason for letters of the stage-coach and sailing-vessel days, has no part in the correspondence of to-day.
&&Taking the contents of an average mail bag as sorted in a United States post-office, about fifty per cent. is probably advertisement or appeal, forty per cent. business, and scarcely ten per cent. personal letters and invitations. Of course, love letters are probably as numerous as need be, though the long distance telephone must have lowered the average of these, too. Young girls write to each other, no doubt, much as they did in olden times, and letters between young girls and young men flourish to-day like unpulled weeds in a garden where weeds were formerly never allowed to grow.
&&It is the letter from the friend in this city to the friend in that, or from the traveling relative to the relative at home, that is gradually dwindling. As for the letter which younger relatives dutifully used to write—it has gone already with old-fashioned grace of speech and deportment.
&&Still, people do write letters in this day and there are some who possess the divinely flexible gift for a fresh turn of phrase, for delightful keenness of observation. It may be, too, that in other days the average writing was no better than the average of to-day. It is naturally the letters of those who had unusual gifts which have been preserved all these years, for the failures of a generation are made to die with it, and only its successes survive.
&&The difference though, between letter-writers of the past and of the present, is that in other days they all tried to write, and to express themselves the very best they knew how—to-day people don’t care a bit whether they write well or ill. Mental effort is one thing that the younger generation of the “smart world” seems to consider it unreasonable to ask—and just as it is the fashion to let their spines droop until they suggest nothing so much as Tenniel’s drawing in Alice in Wonderland of the caterpillar sitting on the toad-stool—so do they let their mental faculties relax, slump and atrophy.
&&To such as these, to whom effort is an insurmountable task, it might be just as well to say frankly: If you have a mind that is entirely bromidic, if you are lacking in humor, all power of observation, and facility for expression, you had best join the ever-growing class of people who frankly confess, “I can’t write letters to save my life!” and confine your literary efforts to picture post-cards with the engaging captions “X is my room,” or “Beautiful weather, wish you were here.”
&&It is not at all certain that your friends and family would not rather have frequent post-cards than occasional letters all too obviously displaying the meagerness of their messages in halting orthography.
BEGINNING A LETTER
&&For most people the difficulty in letter-writing is in the beginning and the close. Once they are started, the middle goes smoothly enough, until they face the difficulty of the end. The direction of the Professor of English to “Begin at the beginning of what you have to say, and go on until you have finished, and then stop,” is very like a celebrated artist’s direction for painting: “You simply take a little of the right color paint and put it on the right spot.”
HOW NOT TO BEGIN
&&Even one who “loves the very sight of your handwriting,” could not possibly find any pleasure in a letter beginning:
&&“I have been meaning to write you for a long time but haven’t had a minute to spare.”
&&“I suppose you have been thinking me very neglectful, but you know how I hate to write letters.”
&&“I know I ought to have answered your letter sooner, but I haven’t had a thing to write about.”
&&The above sentences are written time and again by persons who are utterly unconscious that they are not expressing a friendly or loving thought. If one of your friends were to walk into the room, and you were to receive him stretched out and yawning in an easy chair, no one would have to point out the ruden yet countless kindly intentioned people begin their letters mentally reclining and yawning in just such a way.
HOW TO BEGIN A LETTER
&&Suppose you merely change the wording of the above sentences, so that instead of slamming the door in your friend’s face, you hold it open:
&&“Do you think I have forgotten you entirely? You don’t know, dear Mary, how many letters I have written you in thought.”
&&“Time and time again I have wanted to write you but each moment that I saved for myself was always interrupted by—something.”
&&One of the frequent difficulties in beginning a letter is that your answer is so long delayed that you begin with an apology, which is always a lame duck. But these examples indicate a way in which even an opening apology may be attractive rather than repellent. If you are going to take the trouble to write a letter, you are doing it because you have at least remembered some one with friendly regard, or you would not be writing at all. You certainly would like to convey the impression that you want to be with your friend in thought for a little while at least—not that she through some malignant force is holding you to a grindstone and forcing you to the task of making hateful schoolroom pot-hooks for her selfish gain.
&&A perfect letter has always the effect of being a light dipping off of the top of a spring. A poor letter suggests digging into the dried ink at the bottom of an ink-well.
&&It is easy to begin a letter if it is in answer to one that has just been received. The news contained in it is fresh and the impulse to reply needs no prodding.
&&Nothing can be simpler than to say: “We were all overjoyed to hear from you this morning,” or, “Your letter was the most welcome thing the postman has brought for ages,” or, “It was more than good to have news of you this morning,” or, “Your letter from Capri brought all the allure of Italy back to me,” or, “You can’t imagine, dear Mary, how glad I was to see an envelope with your writing this morning.” And then you take up the various subjects in Mary’s letter, which should certainly launch you without difficulty upon topics of your own.
ENDING A LETTER
&&Just as the beginning of a letter should give the reader an impression of greeting, so should the end express friendly or affectionate leave-taking. Nothing can be worse than to seem to scratch helplessly around in the air for an idea that will effect your escape.
&&“Well, I guess I must stop now,” “Well, I must close,” or, “You are probably bored with this long epistle, so I had better close.”
&&All of these are as bad as they can be, and suggest the untutored man who stands first on one foot and then on the other, running his finger around the brim of his hat, or the country girl twisting the corner of her apron.
HOW TO END A LETTER
&&An intimate letter has no end at all. When you leave the house of a member of your family, you don’t have to think up an especial sentence in order to say good-by. Leave-taking in a letter is the same:
&&“Good-by, dearest, for to-day
Devotedly,
Kate.”
“Best love to you all,
Martin.”
&&“Will write again in a day or two.
Mary.”
&&“Luncheon was announced half a page ago! So good-by, dear Mary, for to-day.”
&&The close of a less intimate letter, like taking leave of a visitor in your drawing-room, is necessarily more ceremonious. And the “ceremonious close” presents to most people the greatest difficulty in letter-writing.
&&It is really quite simple, if you realize that the aim of the closing paragraph is merely to bring in a personal hyphen between the person writing and the person written to.
&&“The mountains were beautiful at sunset.” It is a bad closing sentence because “the mountains” have nothing personal to either of you. But if you can add “—they reminded me of the time we were in Colorado together,” or “—how different from our wide prairies at home,” you have crossed a bridge, as it were.
&&“We have had a wonderful trip, but I do miss you all at home, and long to hear from you soon again.”
&&Or (from one at home):
&&“Your closed house makes me very lonely to pass. I do hope you are coming back soon.”
&&Sometimes an ending falls naturally into a sentence that ends with your signature. “If I could look up now and see you coming into the room, there would be no happier woman in the whole State than
Your devoted mother.”
LETTERS NO ONE CARES TO READ
LETTERS OF CALAMITY
&&First and foremost in the category of letters that no one can possibly receive with pleasure might be put the “letter of calamity,” the letter of gloomy apprehension, the letter filled with petty annoyances. Less disturbing to receive but far from enjoyable are such letters as “the blank,” the “meandering,” the “letter of the capital I,” the “plaintive,” the “apologetic.” There is scarcely any one who has not one or more relatives or friends whose letters belong in one of these classes.
&&Even in so personal a matter as the letter to an absent member of one’s immediate family, it should be borne in mind, not to write needlessly of misfortune or unhappiness. To hear from those we love how ill or unhappy they are, is to have our distress intensified in direct proportion to the number of miles by which we are separated from them. This last example, however, has nothing in common with the choosing of calamity and gloom as a subject of welcome tidings in ordinary correspondence.
&&The chronic calamity writers seem to wait until the skies are darkest, and then, rushing to their desk, luxuriate in pouring all their troubles and fears of troubles out on paper to their friends.
LETTERS OF GLOOMY APPREHENSION
&&“My little Betty [“My little” adds to the pathos much more than saying merely “Betty”] has been feeling miserable for several days. I am worried to death about her, as there are so many sudden cases of typhoid and appendicitis. The doctor says the symptoms are not at all alarming as yet, but doctors see so much of illness and death, they don’t seem to appreciate what anxiety means to a mother,” etc.
&&Another writes: “The times seem to be getting worse and worse. I always said we would have to go through a long night before any chance of daylight. You can mark my words, the night of bad times isn’t much more than begun.”
&&Or, “I have scarcely slept for nights, worrying about whether Junior has passed his examinations or not.”
LETTERS OF PETTY MISFORTUNES
&&Other perfectly well-meaning friends fancy they are giving pleasure when they write such “news” as: “My cook has been sick for the past ten days,” and follow this with a page or two descrip or, “I have a slight cough. I think I must have caught it yesterday when I went out in the rain without rubbers”; or, “The children have not been doing as well in their lessons this week as last. Johnny’s arithmetic marks were dreadful and Katie got an E in spelling and an F in geography.” Her husband and her mother would be interested in the children’s weekly reports, and her own slight cough, but no one else. How could they be?
&&If the writers of all such letters would merely read over what they have written, and ask themselves if they could find pleasure in receiving messages of like manner and matter, perhaps they might begin to do a little thinking, and break the habit of cataleptic unthinkingness that seemingly descends upon them as soon as they are seated at their desk.
&&The writer of the “blank” letter begins fluently with the date and “Dear Mary,” and then sits and chews his penholder or makes little dots and squares and circles on the blotter—utterly unable to attack the cold, forbidding blankness of that first page. Mentally, he seems to say: “Well, here I am—and now what?” He has not an idea! He can never find anything of sufficient importance to write about. A murder next door, a house burned to the ground, a burglary or an elopement could al and that, too, would be finished off in a brief sentence stating the bare fact.
&&A person whose life is a revolving wheel of routine may have really very little to say, but a letter does not have to be long to be welcome—it can be very good indeed if it has a message that seems to have been spoken.
&&Dear Lucy:
&&“Life here is as dull as ever—duller if anything. Just the same old things done in the same old way—not even a fire engine out or a new face in town, but this is to show you that I am thinking of you and longing to hear from you.”
&&“I wish something really exciting would happen so that I might have something with a little thrill in it to write you, but everything goes on and on—if there were any check in its sameness, I think we’d all land in a heap against the edge of the town.”
THE MEANDERING LETTER
&&As its name implies, the meandering letter is one which dawdles through disconnected subjects, like a trolley car gone down grade off the track, through fences and fields and flower-beds indiscriminately. “Mrs. Blake’s cow died last week, the Governor and his wife were on the Reception C Mary Selfridge went to stay with her aunt in R I think the new shade called Harding blue is perfectly hideous.”
&&Another that is almost akin to it, runs glibly on, page after page of meaningless repetition and detail. “I thought at first that I would get a gray dress—I think gray is such a pretty color, and I have had so many blue dresses. I can’t decide this time whether to get blue or gray. Sometimes I think gray is more becoming to me than blue. I think gray looks well on fair-haired people—I don’t know whether you would call my hair fair or not? I am certainly not dark, and yet fair hair suggests a sort of straw color. Maybe I might be called medium fair. Do you think I am light enough to wear gray? Maybe blue would be more serviceable. Gray certainly looks pretty in the spring, it is so clean and fresh looking. There is a lovely French model at Benson’s in gray, but I can have it copied for less in blue. Maybe it won’t be as pretty though as the gray,” etc., etc. By the above method of cud-chewing, any subject, clothes, painting the house, children’s school, planting a garden, or even the weather, need be limited only by the supply of paper and ink.
THE LETTER OF THE “CAPITAL I”
&&The letter of the “capital I” is a pompous effusion which strives through pretentiousness to impress its reader with its writer’s wealth, position, ability, or whatever possession or attribute is thought to be rated most highly. None but unfortunate dependents or the cringing in spirit would subject themselves to a second letter of this kind by answering the first. The letter which hints at hoped-for benefits is no worse!
THE LETTER OF CHRONIC APOLOGY
&&The letter written by a person with an apologetic habit of mind, is different totally from the sometimes necessary letter of genuine apology. The former is as senseless as it is irritating:
&&“It was so good of you to come to my horrid little shanty. [The house and the food she served were both probably better than that of the person she is writing to.] I know you had nothing fit to eat, and I know that everything was just all wrong! Of course, everything is always so beautifully done at everything you give, I wonder I have the courage to ask you to dine with me.”
THE DANGEROUS LETTER
&&A pitfall that those of sharp wit have to guard against is the thoughtless tendency toward writing ill-natured things. Ridicule is a much more amusing medium for the display of a subject than praise, which is always rather bromidic. The amusing person catches foibles and exploits them, and it is easy to forget that wit flashes all too irresistibly at the expense of other people’s feelings, and the brilliant tongue is all too often sharpened to rapier point. Admiration for the quickness of a spoken quip, somewhat mitigates its cruelty. The exuberance of the retailer of verbal gossip eliminates the implication of scandal, but both quip and gossip become deadly poison when transferred permanently to paper.
PERMANENCE OF WRITTEN EMOTION
&&For all emotions written words are a bad medium. The light jesting tone that saves a quip from offense
and remarks that if spoken would amuse, can but pique and even insult their subject. Without the interpretation of the voice, gaiety becomes levity, raillery becomes accusation. Moreover, words of a passing moment are made to stand forever.
&&Anger in a letter carries with it the effec the words spoken in reproof melt with the breath of the speaker once the cause is forgiven. The written words on the page fix them for eternity.
&&Love in a letter endures likewise forever.
&&Admonitions from parents to their children may very properly be put on paper—they are meant to endure, and be remembered, but momentary annoyance should never be more than briefly expressed. There is no better way of insuring his letters against being read than for a parent to get into the habit of writing irritable or fault-finding letters to his children.
THE LETTERS OF TWO WIVES
&&Do you ever see a man look through a stack of mail, and notice that suddenly his face lights up as he seizes a letter “from home”? He tears it open eagerly, his mouth up-curving at the corners, as he lingers over every word. You know, without being told, that the wife he had to leave behind puts all the best she can devise and save for him into his life as well as on paper!
&&Do you ever see a man go through his mail and see him suddenly droop—as though a fog had fallen upon his spirits? Do you see him reluctantly pick out a letter, start to open it, hesitate and then push it aside? His expression says plainly: “I can’t face that just now.” Then by and by, when his lips have been set in a hard line, he will doggedly open his letter to “see what the trouble is now.”
&&If for once there is no trouble, he sighs with relief, relaxes, and starts the next thing he has to do.
&&Usually, though, he frowns, looks worried, annoyed, harassed, and you know that every small unpleasantness is punctiliously served to him by one who promised to love and to cherish and who probably thinks she does!
THE LETTER EVERYONE LOVES TO RECEIVE
&&The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.
&&Let us suppose we have received one of those perfect letters from Mary, one of those letters that seem almost to have written themselves, so easily do the words flow, so bubbling and effortless is their spontaneity. There is a great deal in the letter about Mary, not only about what she has been doing, but what she has been thinking, or perhaps, feeling. And there is a lot about us in the letter—nice things, that make us feel rather pleased about something that we have done, or are likely to do, or that some one has said about us. We know that all things of concern to us are of equal concern to Mary, and though there will be nothing of it in actual words, we are made to feel that we are just as secure in our corner of Mary’s heart as ever we were. And we finish the letter with a very vivid remembrance of Mary’s sympathy, and a sense of loss in her absence, and a longing for the time when Mary herself may again be sitting on the sofa beside us and telling us all the details her letter can not but leave out.
THE LETTER NO WOMAN SHOULD EVER WRITE
&&The mails carry letters every day that are so many packages of TNT should their contents be exploded by falling into wrong hands. Letters that should never have been written are put in evidence in court rooms every day. Many can not, under any circumstances, but often silly girls and foolish women write things that sound quite different from what they innocently, but stupidly, intended.
&&Few persons, except professional writers, have the least idea of the value of words and the effect that they produce, and the thoughtless letters of emotional women and underbred men add sensation to news items in the press almost daily.
&&Of course the best advice to a young girl who is impelled to write letters to men, can be put in one word, don’t!
&&However, if you are a young girl or woman, and are determined to write letters to an especial—or any other—man, no matter how innocent your intention may be, there are some things you must remember—remember so intensely that no situation in life, no circumstances, no temptation, can ever make you forget. They are a few set rules, not of etiquette, but of the laws of self-respect:
&&Never send a letter without reading it over and making sure that you have said nothing that can possibly “sound different” from what you intend to say.
&&Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man—no matter who he is—that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.
&&Remember that every word of writing is immutable evidence for or against you, and words which are thoughtlessly put on paper may exist a hundred years hence.
&&Never write anything that can be construed as sentimental.
&&Never take a man to never
to do so implies too great an intimacy.
&&Never put a single clinging tentacle into writing. Say nothing ever, that can be construed as demanding, asking, or even being eager for, his attentions!
&&Always keep in mind and never for one instant forget that a third person, and that the very one you would most object to, may find and read the letter.
&&One word more: It is not alone “bad form” but laying yourself open to every sort of embarrassment and danger, to “correspond with” a man you slightly know.
PROPER LETTERS OF LOVE OR AFFECTION
&&If you are engaged, of course you should write love letters—the most beautiful that you can—but don’t write baby-talk and other sillinesses that would make you feel idiotic if the letter were to fall into strange hands.
&&On the other hand, few can find objection to the natural, friendly and even affectionate letter from a young girl to a young man she has been “brought up” with. It is such a letter as she would write to her brother. There is no hint of coquetry or self-consciousness, no word from first to last that might not be shouted aloud before her whole family. Her letter may begin “Dear——” or even “Dearest Jack.” Then follows all the “home news” she can think of that might p about the Simpsons’ dance, Tom and Pauline’s engagement, how many trout Bill Henderson got at Duck Brook, how furious Mrs. Davis was because some distinguished visitor accepted Mrs. Brown’s dinner instead of hers, how the new people who have moved onto the Rush farm don’t know the first thing about farming, and so on.
&&Perhaps there will be one “personal” line such as “we all missed you at the picnic on Wednesday—Ollie made the flap-jacks and they were too awful! Every one groaned: ‘If Jack were only here!’“ Or, “we all hope you are coming back in time for the Towns’ dance. Kate has at last inveigled her mother into letting her have an all-black dress which we rather suspect was bought with the especial purpose of impressing you with her advanced age and dignity! Mother came in just as I wrote this and says to tell you she has a new recipe for chocolate cake that is even better than her old one, and that you had better have a piece added to your belt before you come home. Carrie will write you very soon, she says, and we all send love.
“Affectionately,
“Ruth.”
THE LETTER NO GENTLEMAN WRITES
&&One of the fundamental rules for the behavior of any man who has the faintest pretension to being a gentleman, is that never by word or gesture must h he never, therefore, writes a letter that can be construed, even by a lawyer, as damaging to any woman’s good name.
&&His letters to an unmarried woman may express all the ardor and devotion that he cares to subscribe to, but there must be no hint of his having received especial favors from her.
DON’TS FOR CORRESPONDENCE
&&Never typewrite an invitation, acceptance, or regret.
&&Never typewrite a social note.
&&Be chary of underscorings and postcripts.
&&Do not write across a page already written on.
&&Do not use unmatched paper and envelopes.
&&Do not write in pencil—except a note to one of your family written on a train or where ink is unprocurable, or unless you are flat on your back because of illness.
&&Never send a letter with a blot on it.
&&Never sprinkle French, Italian, or any other foreign words through a letter written in English. You do not give an impression of cultivation, but of ignorance of your own language. Use a foreign word if it has no English equivalent, not otherwise unless it has become Anglicized. If hesitating between two words, always select the one of Saxon origin rather than Latin. For the best selection of words to use, study the King James version of the Bible.
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