Show I e LETTE PROM FROM MRS ms JOSEPH JOSEFE GRAVES GRA YC TON lIAl TO LESLIE PRE ThIs Tills Is tho time tima my deir daughter that I have felt I could Sit it do down n and talk to you In the tho thoI WilY way I u usually do In my letters lefter I Your has hils been lying out out- outI out outdoors doors In n the tho porch sv s swine sIng Ins Ing all nIl day Ho was ns as able oble to wilk w out ol ot the I room this thi and seemed quite like Ilko himself elt eltI I hn have base 0 not heard from Alice Allce In oer er a week 6 she aha l Is ery 10 busy getting ready to be at court coun Oh my dear child when hen I thInk ot of It all It seems like a 0 fairy tale to me Yau know my dear I had little education and sour lour our father even less than I I don t ow kT know that I over eer told ou you OU but we 0 e ent spent all the e openings of ot the first tint two sears can after w e ere w v ere married porinG over overbooks overbooks overbooks books and trying to learn Ot Of course sour your our father Is one ono of the greatest steel men In the tho coun coun- country country try toda today and I believe belleve there thero is nothIng about steel mill or teel machInery that ho docs does not know I-fe I ha has hns learned it all In the hard school of ot and what ho he could get pet from books bools In his o ee- eve fin gs I was about Alices Alice's age when you sere ere b An n dear and we ve were so 80 er ver very poor that th hit someone ho ho knew and liked your father In the mills per persuaded his wife to lIend mo me our our layette 11 ette I had to be up and around m house a little over overa overa overa a after arter iou ou born dear but thank God wo we both were ero al- al was al-was a s well wel j jI I cant can't pretend to to ou all the sacrifices and economies that I practiced I ne ne never neer or er dream dream- dreamed dreamed ed cd that I would bo be able to give you the splendid education that Is sours ours and certain Iv never dreamed that one of ot my daughters would be presented at nt England's court Your father and I wore talking about It tho the other othor night and e e agreed that all this Is a II part ot of the heritage of or America Your father tather said enid That Is the tho reason hy I allo allowed eel Leslie LelIo to marry a comp pool man and hy hyI I didn't settle a halt half million million dol- dol lais dol-lais lal lais s on her at the time of ot mar mar- marriage marriage marriage I belle believe 0 that every man and oman should strike out for tor es I would ouid not tor for any any- anything anything anything thing In th world arid take away from Jack and Leslie the tho great jov joy that ou and I had of ot saving saing and sacrificing Truly it Is a joy Leslie You aill III come to know Imo that when you have havo 11 used ed long far tar enough to get the tho right pe perspective e on all oU tho little upheavals of ol sour lour our first years ot of marriage from the tho tone of ol your our letters lately dear I have como come to the conclusion that you ou have been hav hay havInG haying having ing one of ot those upheavals now I do do not want to pry Into sour our at- at affairs af affairs fairs but let me tell you that the first thieo ee years of ol married life lite nl me ale e the crucial ones In them ou eally 1 must get set your husband and ho he with OU I You must adjust yourself to an I entirely different environment en and mode of ol living Whenever er ou feet teel that maybe John l is not as fine Cine and splendid as you first Imagined do donot donot donot not forget torget that he may be having the tho same over you youX I X Intended to write rite you ou a ne neasy letter but Instead I am preaching a little I II close before I become prosy Lovingly Mother COP right 1923 1323 NEA Service Inc TOMORROW O T horn riom LesUe Lesile Pre Prescott cott to The herself herself first three years Tears |