Show TH THE E. E TANGLE LEITER FROM JOHN JOUN ALDeN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY GAIt R TON TOA DEAn DEAlt S SID D When l I fished h my letter t to you nay Jf ye yesterday day old man f I did not t expect to write to you again until I 1 received received re- re an answer but as you seem to be the only one to whom I can cansay cansay cansay say anything when I want to get it out of my system I must write about another that has come como cometo comoto to me It does seem that I am the most unfortunate man on earth Just listen to Syd Two or three days ago our company company com corn pany g got t Into a row with the billboard billboard billboard bill bill- board people of ot the town and they decided I was to make an complaint about the tho billboard that was put up Just across from my apartment I went to the city hall and made by byI I complaint and the company had it itI I f exploited l d In the papers Y You can te re imagine how I felt when en I came home at night and found that billboard billboard billboard bill bill- board covered with an announcement announcer announce ment that Paula Perler Perter was going to make a Pi personal al ad appearance i gU here erl The l whole J town had its tongue in 1 its cheek cheek over over r It its cheek cheek over over r It Why anyone should think that I II Iwas Iwas was wag such a confounded fool as to I ask to have that billboard taken down Just on account of ot Paula Perler's Per Per- ler's lers miame ier's name being on It It more than I can I-can c can n understand Even Kven the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers are making sly making sly innuendos In Inthe inthe inthe the matter however and I am ashamed to show my face lace on the street It Is a topsy tury world old man f tom om Om that which our fathers and mothers trod t Dont Don't you OU re remember remember remember re- re member how we wo have haye cried at the poor heroine on the tho stage who pays and pa pays and pa pays s' s Nowadays Nowadays Nowadays Nowa Nowa- days it isn't the tho girl who pays It ItIs ItIs Itis Is the man We e certainly are having having haying hav hay ing to pay for the sins of ot our fathers fathers fa fathers fa- fa as well as our own Jn in this age I do not believe the tho people who are ae gloating over my stoy or what they think of my story will be able to got get in in- inthe the theatre where Paula Perler Perier makes her first appearance here I cant can't gO o out of or town I must face the music And heres here's another complication My Iy mother at last has come to he her senses sensed and has very ery humbly and sweetly asked to have Leslie Lesii come to visit he her She has dismissed that Impossible Bradford woman from her house Leslie Is 13 perfectly willing willing will will- ing big to let bygones be bygones She has already made all alt preparations to tal take e the baby and visit mother She is preparing to stat start on the very day clay Paula Perier Perie e comes C to town Of course ath the gossip I will ms I Insist s that i t Leslie LesIle left Just because Paula Perier Per 1 I ler ier came and the whole matter will wiil be rehashed Personally I dont don't care car so much but this controversy between Leslie LesIle and me has reached such a no point that I do not want herto herto her her- to get mixed up in It I cant can't let Leslie go Up to date however my mind has refused to Invent an any kind of plausible excuse that will keep her In town I think I will Just have to make mate her think I am going to tn prosecute Ruth If it she leaves That will certainly l keep her herat herat herat at home Here is the queer part of or human nature Syd Even with all this hullabaloo I shall be glad to see seeP P Paula ula and talk Ib tO her I want to tell her my mv side of or the stoy story for Paula Perier Perler is a good woman I Iwho who know this better than even you vou Will write you the outcome Syd I feel better for Just putting my thoughts on paper JACK Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Continued Tomorrow |