Show Q LETTER LETTEn PROM PROU LD Lill COlT COTT TO JOnN JORN ALDEN ALDEl PULS- PULS COTT COTT corr CO TI My sister seems to have havo gro 11 two or three Inches taller al although though she he told lold me a little super super- superciliously superciliously looking at my roy plumpness that shed she'd only grown n more slen- slen slender Blon slen Blonder der She he is really more moro English than thon an Englishwoman herself herself- herself speaks speak with a 0 broad accent and drawls drawl her words I think how how- howe however e ever eier or that she has done this so lOng th l it has hns become second to her for tor she ehe does docs not seem to be putting It on entirely She was at- at al always ways a great mimic Karl seems to tl bo quite de ole to her her-at her at least he is made to is alt tipon her in a II way that must have boon been an ner to the British h and that I wish Ih vou ou could have seen een It might help you to remember remember remember ber some of ot the things I ask you to todo todo todo do for me when you leave for the theoffice theoffice office In the morning which OU forget torget Alice Allce dresses In the English fashion She Sho hasn't the smartness of our American girls but It its s a sery el becoming to her In evening dr fin sq she wore at filmier last night she I is a stunning looking girl I vo ve alwa alwais s thought the Eng Eng Eng- English English lish Ush woman looks better In the eve eve- evenIng evening eve evening ning than we do Karl his has gIven olven her hen a magnificent string of o pearls she he wears weara with great The only really thing that I have known her to do since she came back I is to tell me that they cost coat a 0 hundred thousand dol- dol dollars dol dollars Ian lars Mother seemed quite disappoint disappoint- disappointed ed thai thet I didn't bring little Jack but Alice remarked Ot or course it isn In t as ns hard to tl leave ve him as It would be bo it tt he wre w w no child lout our own At that thit moment I hated my toy sis sis- sister sis sister ter Dad asked me all about you and seemed to be much pleased that you are getting along so welt said well he always aloys knew you were nero going to lo succeed Mother was waa quite anxious to know all about Sallys Sally's husband dying and dad wanted to know If yoU would let Sally return to him because she was the best advertise advertise- advertisement advertisement ment copy writer he ha h had e ever eer er had hadI hadI I told him I was afraid you would not like to let Sally go back to that hun that you got along well with her and that you had promised bet beta heia a 0 bIg ble raise ralsa In a a month or Alice remarked a womans woman's wo wo woking LIn in an office day after day seemed to rile dad for some rea- rea reason rea reason son or other I I don den t think h Ii 1100 admires all alt of Alices Alice's little W wis ws S He lie spoke up and said I I consider Mrs Atherton one r f the most feminine women I hale hae ever known knon While Whilo sou OU may moy think It was a great misfortune that she had to earn her living I want you to know I would be glad gIRd to know that either cither of my daughters could do so It tt they were nero ero called caned upon as 9 ell 1 elI as she he does docs Well Veil 1 dont don't think Ill I'll ever be called upon said Alice complacently complacently complacently with a 0 look of understand understand- understanding ing log toward Karl Karl colore 1 and I know deer der that lie he as well as I thou thought ht the remarkS was rather bad taste tasie Of course coure I have lots and lots to tell ou which I cannot write I hope your mother mot er has made hel- hel hei self comfortable Be sure and tele- tele telephone telephone tele telephone phone Ruth to go over and see hr h rand and take those caps a as X mention mentioned ed them to her In a a note I wrote before I left Dear Jack Im I'm awfully glad th t oure not like Karl Whitney Id I'd bo be bored to death with a man nhO ho always was on the lookout to see just what I wanted Of course coure there are arc times dear when you might bo be a little more observing of my Inclinations but as a n whole whole- whole I think we fared My heart and I Ilou lou ou see like Silas Im I'm drop drop- dropping dropping ping Into poetry consequently I think Id I'd better close Kiss Elsa little Jack rack for tor me I long or or your kisses until I return Lovingly Copyright 1924 NEA ServIce Inc Ine TOMORROW Letter from front Lee Ll's Les Leslie lie to Ruth 00 00 |