Show TH THE E T TANGLE ANGLE 1 LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIMSHAW GRIMSHAW GRIM GRIM- SHAW TO LESLIE TO-LESLIE LESLIE PRESCOTT I i Your letter my dear Leslie was full of ot the most astounding news I I First I was greatly surprised that Dick told you ou we e had bad broken our en en- n- n i You notice I say we for although h I think the idea was put into words by me I am sure the thought was in Dicks Dick's brain long be before before before be- be fore I voiced it I have como come to the conclusion dear all aU of our traditions in regard to the sexes their psychologies their proclivities proclivities proclivities pro pro- and their real place In life are wrong wrone I had always believed a man kept his secrets especially whore where it was a alove alove alove love secret but here I find Dick talking talkIng talkIng talk- talk Ing over the breaking of ot our engage engagement ment with you quite calmly Rather ridiculous rIdiculous rIdiculous-Isn't isn't it The more mire I seo see of ot men men and and the themore themore themore more I hear about them them the the nearer I come to thinking there is no particular particular particular par par- difference between men women 1 Mens Men's animal qualities may 1 be e a little stronger but in all human and psychological attributes they are the same What you ou say about Paula Perler is also most astounding I remember her when I visited in Albany some years ago She was then thought to tobe tobe tobo be bo extremely beautiful but an ex exI extremely ex- ex I frivolous girl Much was forgiven forgiven torI for tor- I given her own her living because Many she hye o of had her to sensational sensational sensa sensa- earn i actions were excused because she was French I cannot Imagine her anything like you ou describe as a woman who has come conic out of the fiery furnace of suffering suffering suf suf- fering refined and made better That's all l right my dear as t far as asit asit tt it does s If experience Ie cre does docs not t make a us better it always makes us worse There Ther e is no such thing as a character standing still you know However Im I'm afraid I would never have invited that woman to my house if It I thought the child I had adopted was the child she had abandoned I Ido Ido do not consider myself below the a average average aver aver- ver- ver age woman in sympathy and understanding understanding understanding under under- standing Leslie but honestly I never could have sympathized enough nough with Paula Perier Perler to ask her to take that child in her arms knowing all the time she was its mother I guess Im I'm old fashioned n Leslie buIt but I still have e a kind Jh of queer ee reeling reel feel feelIng Ing when I meet meet meet-as as one does often lately lately lately-a a woman who through a great love or a a. great reat mistake has strayed from the strict path of ot virtue I sometimes wonder if It that crown of ot glory has been lost entirely that was always supposed to have been the halo surrounding the virtuous woman re ference Nowadays nac ab between we seem ei her and to d make her e unchaste no difference difference dif dif- f sister When you jou ou take away away- the feeling reeling that a a. spotless reputation is nothing particularly to be desired you OU take takeaway takeaway takeaway away the foundation of society Probably Dick and I would never have hit it off oft together after his movie experience I should always feel I could not trust him I should always feel he was probably keeping something in his mind very different from that which he was telling me I am glad lad however yOU vou saw him and told me all about it It breaks another link of the chain between us Lovingly Loving BEE Cop Copyright 1924 NEA Service Ice Inc Continued tomorrow |