STORY OF A POCKET HANDKERCHIEF.
Such an innocent-looking little square of cambric—so unpretending and useful; yet what a world of harm it has done, first and last, in the hands of designing people! Many a fair name has been ruined, many a hfippy home broken up, through that which sliouid have stood for n signal of danger— ware of a handkerchief, diverted from its original use and employed by idle fingers in the service of folly. There is a story told of a gallant Union soldier who fell hopelessly in love with the beautiful daughter of (i Confederate general, and carried on by handkerchief signals a system of correspondence that betrayed his regiment into the hands of the enemy. As a reward for lii-' unfaithfulness to duty, he was adiiiitled to a secret tyrafc with his love, from which he never returned. A Northern poet has told the sequel in verse : — And from the ca-ement flutters A pquare of cambric white. It Is her handkerchief that givea Love's signal call to night; Eut not f<T love, hrave eoldier, She lures you to her pitH ; That flag , of truce, upon the morn, Your pale, dead face will bide —American paper.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3181, 8 September 1881, Page 4
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199STORY OF A POCKET HANDKERCHIEF. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3181, 8 September 1881, Page 4
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