Show kiL IW t TA RY mir 8 d l ft 0 MOM e r c GROVES EWEY Dear Morn Mom I am no glutton for punishment Consequently the little Invitation you suggested I extend to my ancient an- an lent cousins Is out A little of my tile life might do them good but a little of theIr life 1110 would me Here Is one point where I dIsagree disagree dIs- dIs agree with you I dont don't believe In inviting people to visIt you in a spirit ot of obligation or of charity If I ask anyone anone to visit isit me It means I really want them uld that I expect them to be good congenial company I seem to remember both bothof of oC these cousIns cousIn's rather painfully from my women childhood who always sat around and waited for someone else to start Something Should they ever come to visit me ot of their own accord that's a different matter Ill I'll do right by them But Im I'm not a philanthropist spreading joy and sunshine Im I'm n. n elfIsh modern woman who is goIn goin go- go In to escape everything unpleasant every time she gets a chance Anyhow life Ufe Is quite exciting now that I have ceased temporarily to tobe tobe be a careerist and am being just justL justa a L dangerous female Fortunately klan Is taking quite an Interest In Alice Allce Carver and so he doesn't notice notice no- no tice that Mr Shelton Is taking quite an Interest In me You know I have decided that I Ilove Ilove love intrigue for its own sake Mr Shelton has a 3 tremendous Interest in me just now because by aU all the he shouldn't If I were free e and unattached Im I'm Imperfectly Imperfectly perfectly sure t tit I wouldn't think of him twice When I see him and andAlan andAlan Alan together and those two reaU really like each other other-I realize reaUze that Alan AlanIs Is much handsomer and younger ouner and much more my ideal ot of a man man- But I like the Idea ot of Interesting hIm For I have a a. feeling that I Ido Ido do It slightly against hi his will wilI I am sure ho he was sas violently In love with rith thIs girl whom I ans am supposed to It would be so easy for tor me to reduce him to a a. state of abject slavery sInce It is aU all In the that cards at times I feel I ought to resist the Impulse and fight In my own class where there thero Is some wholesome But other times Alan Wants to play bridge while the moon Is out on tho water and I catch a 3 certain ocr ocr- tain far away look In Brother Sheltons Shelton's Slid Slid- tons ton's eyes I feel quito quite sure that there Is no point In not facing the inevitable AU All my love mom darling a MARYB Copyright 1 NEA Service Inc |