Show Au OF IM HdA Inc THiT ISAM mOM 11 TO JOHN PR Your mother la ts very iii 11 I think you come Immediately PRISCILLA NIGHT Lm I ROV I ALDEN N COTI 10 lO MRS L J Ity ALDEN Your Tour wire wiro relayed to me here her In Now New Ye York rk Unless you are nrc dan dan- ilan III I can hardly make mak the tho If Ip but Leslie Le lle Is la stinting starting for your thoI I today Sh She will wilt b be much couch bet t bot- bot b t- t tr r In the alc sick lck room anyway than 1 A very Important business deal dealin dealin In Albany makes It e rathe that I return there Immediately son JOHN JOliN winn IRE FRO m MUS Mm MARY ii ij o Dr CO IT 10 to JOHN AL- AL DU AL-DU PRE Ant Ani feeling t better for LC I to come MOTHER vi mi nir FROM JOHN JOHS orr i n TO ro MRS IRS lit JI R o RV t ALDUN LI LN PRESCOTT I 1 Leslie started ani will arrive arTive 6 t IE Iii p m Will try to get gt e Un UD not r it week and bring brine her home hom It you still continue to JOHN JOHS FROM LESLIE LESUE mrs CO COrr rr N Th 10 Tt HER MRS HAMU HA l MOTHER OTH 1 R RI I dont don't know whether to laugh or to cry but honestly mother dear I 1 never knew there ther were such old ladles ladie In all the world you and me I Idon Idon Idon don t e lIe Johns John's mother Is In sick at 11 t all She li it I Just a selfish old woman She Rhe Rh wants everyone at nt her herbeck herbeck herbeck beck and call Are all nIl old people more or lesi h mother Of course you and dad c cr e not but tb thin n I ne neer er thought of ot you ou aj lIS old But all other people who are arc 0 oser o er eL sixty e ty I h he e to me m to be b trying not oni to 10 live thier own lives the way th y want to live but to make make orione crone e with whom they come corao io 10 live lie lives according to the plans which seem to understand that the he world moves move and we w ar are n naw w on the tIme v while thee lire tho are shuffling off orr Sounds terrible It but I 1 guess we young people le are franker than the last lut l U MM Prescott I I can t for tor the life Jare l toot ot of rue nit call her hr mother Is la tie tie- rte t to dislike me m and In this she Is aided and abetted by that gossiping co old maid Priscilla Bradford who I know to marry Jack Jaek herself henelt and who that I 1 vamped Jack Jacl Into marrying me m A fat tat chance chanc she sh would have had ot of marrying John Alden Prescott n nen een en It if I had never met him himm I mother dear N No one was at th the train to meet me but of ot course I hardly ex- ex en peeled 1 that However However I was waa gur- gur ur I to be met at the th door by Mrs arrayed In her best beat black silk sUI and other garments ot of State to I choked a little as I 1 said I pre pre- slime nm ou au are better and she sh an- an answered an d ith much dignity I think I know what is due du my daughter daughter- dau In low law on her first t t visit I hav have I probably death arisen from m my bed death to greet erett g you I MORROW TO-MORROW letter leuer conI con con- I tinned The e cau c of oC time the hurry hurry- call |