Show TA GLEI I ITO LETTER LEPIER FROM FRO I LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LITTLE CAR CARO CARE CARFI O OF 11 THE SECRET DRAWER CO CONTINUED My oldest son son I never write those e words jn in n fact tact they ne nev neer er r come Into my consciousness conscious n ness ss t that t a little thrill does i t pass over m on bod body Fox For I nI W wh whatever bl black ck k could corne come int into info m m my life again he would still 8 c crown own 1 me with ft halo of ot glory Oh bh Little Marquise you can never know kow the jpy that W. W was pra mine when v n nI I 1 found t those o e two boys in my arms arms' after aft r I i returned from Buth uth Of or I course little Sydney is too young I yet vet to talk but with his little moist mouth against my throat and his blinking eyes ees searching ar my y f face I cO could d not ask for any more e ex expression I of love bye than he gave meI meI me I I c confess I was a tiny lit bit jealous for Cor the f first st time itt In n my life w when ep I 1 fo found nd t tat at little littie Jack ack had such suchY friends ds with Paula You i tee see e. e Little Marquise I was secretly afraid th the t between them hem might offset t my love Jove and c care re But ButI I know t that at whole idea that a mother Who bears a child loves it or a child lo byes loyes es her more Is not true Be Bearing l ni nia a a child is only IY an animal anIma function which woman has with ev every ry other thing and I there is no mysterious bond between child and nd th the woman woman who vho bears him But there is a avery very sacred and mysterious s bond between the he child and nd the woman vom n who r rears ars him Who who helps to unfold his soul day by day It Is is t the e woman Into whose eyes eye the he child first consciously loOks that awakes a his power o of loving and ItIs it itis its Is s her daily care car and devotion that makes the same sane Mother sa sacred red to him When I ca came e home hOTtle little Jack calmed all my fears by by- InnocentI saying that thit the pretty 1 V vho wo come ome to o every day made him m happy pappy calse cause she talked to me The of ot my mother r all ll th the h time That h t wavery wa was very sweet eio of Paula 1 r Little m Marquise for it t must t have cut u ut her herto herto I to the heart see JackIe bursting v with ith love for me Im I'm afraid she I is a bigger woman woman than I w would b be under the sam same clr circumstances I Poor old l Ite had a lot to togo togo I Igo go through lately and I can aee I he hes he's s very vry nervous about the coming motion picture to be taken aten at th the mill mill Last night he lC seemed very When I told S Sally lly Atherton Athert n who was here herp here that I wo would ld not go goto goto goto to the he mill II while they were ta taking Ing the he p picture ture as s I J thought though John would have enough to look after aner wIthoUt looking after atter me Sally seems seem thin and a a I- I little worn- worn lately I Ive I've Ive ve often tt tI wondered wIlY why she he doesn t ml- ml marry r again She seems perfectly content to Work Wor her life away In Johns John s offIce She has pas ha haa had hada a great deal dear on her per shoulders while John was confined cont to the house We re arranged today to have lunch lunch- eon ton with Paula on onu the tle lat last attern afternoon of or the baz bazar basar which begins tomo tomorrow Copyright 1926 NEA pl e Inc rol Tomorrow orro pl This l letter Hn continued |