Show I II I II THE TH E I I T TANGLE ANGLE I LETTER FROM FRO JOHN JOlIN ALDEN ALDE I PRESCOTT TO IllS HIS I L. IX IX LAV MRS MIlS JOSEPH JOSEPn GRAVES GRAES DEAR MOTHER I I hope you will wUl allow me to wish you ou the of or journeys on your trip abroad I know you are going groins to be filled tilled with pride when you OU see Alice drivIng driving ing away for her presentation at court I 1 sometimes wonder if It Leslie Leslie Leslie Les Les- lie has any regret in the loss of or all these privileges and festivities She however seems perfectly satisfied to tobe tobe tobe be a poor mans man's wife especially since we adopted the baby Leslie writes me that Mr Hamilton Hamilton Hamil Hamil- ton is much taken with him O Of course that makes her very happy happye and I am extremely glad that at you ed i have e taken the kiddle kiddie to y your hearts especially as my mother has not been so kind about It She seems to think that because I grave gave gave him the name of John Alden Prescott I Ire have but re reI red I d done tell sze something something- Leslie if l aie she ife VT very is 01 old fash terrible and we will have to forgive her I hope you will brinK bring back the governor In perfect health and again please let me say that you have all my good grood wishes for a pleasant Journey and a safe sare re re- re turn Affe Affectionately t your r son son JOHN r ALDEN J TT from T eHe Pr I To John Ald Alden D I I 4 i That was a sweet letter dearest you ou wrote to mother Almost sweet enough to make up to me for tor not getting one myself You are not angry with me are you John and please do not pity me for not going abroad with mother and dad Id I'd much rather stay at home with you and Junior I know I love you very much John because you have changed al almost almost almost al- al most all my tastes tasted even my dislike e for beefsteak That is a Joke John Before I met you I was much more of a society girl than is Alice and the thought of or being being- presented at court would have carried me to the seventh heaven of or my highest desires But now It seems to me the yen veri est eat and silliest of nonsense to stick three feathers in the top of your marcell and wear a train his so SQ long that it has to be spread out by two splendid servants In plush panties for the sake of ing lug to a stogy stagy old king and a a. dowdy old queen who probably are as bored as you ar arIt are It may be all right for English people who have some reverence for rulers but for us free-born free haughty Americans American who pull our presidents out of the chair i and kick them out of ot the White House at least every eight years It sounds ridiculous doesn't Tonight dear when I knelt by bythe bythe bythe the baby's babs bed and watched his soft breathing I thought of or that mother who bent over the cradle in the manger and concluded that my lot even with a vicarious child was much better than was Alices Alice's who has only a presentation at court to look forward to I 1 love you LESLIE Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Continued Tomorrow I |