Show MO 9 t I y CJ Their e r Letters tJ BY RUTH DEWEY DENEY GROVES Mont Dear Heres Here's where you get the surprise of your jour our life liCe I went alone and unprotected un unprotected un- un protected l to the lions lion's den And I came out all allot of a piece N Now w Ill I'll tell you you what ou what those plans a those are c those 1 I referred to In a prevIous previous previous pre pre- letter I v kno when Michelle 1 asked me to pose for tor him that it was purely a business proposition Dont Don't ask me how I 1 knew Even iven girls of ot your day days must have known when they thoy appealed to aman a aman aman man as a man I knew I hadn't clicked with l He didn't seem to be bo Interested in me as an addition to his love g gallery There Thele were others I admit atthe atthe at atthe the party who ho took notice ol of me after the how show in ia a warmly personal personal personal per per- wa way ay but was not ono one of ot them He lie told me that he he liked my figure and wanted to sketch sketch- mo roo in poses of ot the tile dance They're to be used used in Illustrating a book bool on the origin of ot modern dancing lies going to do dp a s ries It will take sc se e e time as ns he cant can't work steadily on them He has three portraits under r way way now V Rn and 1 several several sev sey- eral more ordered Some Soma day I hope ho will do oho of ome me but his Mf prices are aie stiff I thought ho might offer I to do it for less if it I posed pOled for him I but Dut he Insists upon p paying me for formy formy formy my work And say Mom om maybe you think It isn't work Gosh Im I'm full lull of ot Grinds crinks and knots that I know will never come out It may sound like the tho life of Riley standing up there thereon on a dais and Just holding still but its it's torture after atter a while I dont don't think Ill I'll ever be able to do 10 the Black Bottom again except in slow slow- motion 1 says fas these poses are arc un t unusually un- un usually tiring but I can think of ot I easier casler ways to get money than b by posing for it Coaxing It out of or a I husband Is one but Id I'd rather take I Ithe the harder way way and earn it Theres There's Theresa a mental compensation It will e ea be bea a tin thrill HI to to have a a little tittle money of ot I Imy my eny own again Ot Or course Aan AJan and andI I get along pretty pI-etty well on the arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- we ire made in the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning about the the- money I was to have l but ut there theio are arc un unexpected u uses s for a little cash that bob up uP now and then which make a prenuptial i nt nothing but a scrap of paper If It the series and my bones bone I holdout hold holdout holdout out Ill I'll be able to start stait a savings account I Dearest earest love MARYB MARYE Next Next Next-An An Elopement c I Copyright 1928 NEA Service Inc I |