In the 19th century there appears a new kind of literature - advice how to draw up letters. The heart of at youth of the third and fourth estates is beaten precisely as much as it was with gentlemen and ladies of former times, only a feather is not obedient to them. Anyway, matchmaking should be successful. And then they appeal to books - samples for help where they can find ready forms which are only to be filled by flaring feelings. Pocket - book "The brilliant interlocutor", published in 1871 already in the fourth edition, is of that kind. In the chapter about love correspondence the anonymous author first of all advises to pay special attention to external and internal decency of letters. As to internal decency it can only be approved but what does the author mean under external decency, it is not absolutely clear. Maybe he hints at the pink, scented paper? Or, on the contrary, warns of it, being afraid, what a youth in love will manage to bedaub all envelope? Cautions and wishes are accompanied by practical parting words that the author of the love message "should be faithful to his nature and write what his heart prompts".
Naturally, the love is competent only then when conducts through whirlpools of life to noble purposes. Therefore after the young have found common language, it is time to begin conversation on matrimony.
It is difficult to carry matchmaking in a more noble way. Disorders can arise only in that case if the father of the lady has the other edition of such advice book and the answer does not coincide with a question. Well all the same - the form is not imperious over essence: if once you have trusted pink wings of love, you will have to share with the dearest half all the pleasure of life.