Show k S 1 AN iNT N TE OF INIE I IN ce LUTE C E J Lt FI MUS ns MAKY AIDIN II SCOTT TO HERSON HER HEIl SON sox wi SIR JOHN i iMy Pr My Dear John II I do not wonder that you ou an- an announced an no announced I to me the news of at your adoption of a child through the I from a II daily lally paper with with- without out any comment I cannot un- un unI understand un understand shy hy you eu would do such sucha I a terrible thing thins particularly after Imy my tol telegram gram to you which I sent Immediate upon receiving Mrs Hamiltons Hamilton's letter t telling me that you had some ridiculous Ideas of I doing this silly Billy thing John base ha you ou no pride of ot ancestry an- an ancestry an ancestry When I think that you a direct descendant ot of John Jehn Alden should take tako Into your homo home some borne nameless brat whose whoso mother hid h no nomore nomore nomore more maternal 10 loie loo e for Cor her off off- offspring offspring off offspring spring than to lea lease leae lea e It 11 before your boor I turn sick And that you Ioor further ha halo hae ha o e insulted lour our illus illus- illustriOUS illustrious predecessors by giving I child not only our name but the name of the ancestor of shorn ham wo we weare are aro most proud John proud John Alden It seems Deems incredible Why John do you realize that this child child Is probably illegitimate No 10 woman roman no matter how poor poor would give elvo up a child in this way refusing to disclose her Identity I that child was born bern in dis- dis disgrace dis disgrace I graceI grace The only r reason on I can think or of whereby Mrs Hamilton would agree to lo this awful piece of InsanIty Insanity ity Is that both she and her hr h r hus hus- husband husband husband band ha have come as ion OU oti might say from flom the soil soli and they have no feeling of the duties and responsibilities that belong bolong to us who count among our progenitors the splendid forefathers who built up this country I do not think I shall ever re- re reCO recover re recover CO cover COer er from frem this terrible disgrace Of OC course you know It is all silly sUly nonsense that Leslie would not hase C a recovered it if ehe she hil had not had hadn hada hada n a baby Jaby given ghen gh t n her Other nomen omen ha haw hae e lost children and still retaIned their sanity Leslie's mind must b be weaker than thom even I thought It was You must never expect to bring that child Into my house Yo To r I must ne never neer er expect it to bo be given In my will win any or of o the heirlooms whIch hase ha e come down to 10 us Com t he John Alden family In fact today I am making makine another will willand willand and giving all mv my old furniture and other precious mementoes of our glorIous family life to dear Pris- Pris Priscilla Priscilla Pris cilla Bradford She has so o deep deep- deeply deeply deeply ly sympathized with me In this great trouble which you ha e Aa e put upon me that I r cannot help bell but love her more than ever Dear Priscilla says she feels fels that no one has the right to adopt adept a child of doubtful anc ancestry stry and that she would not think of adopting one unless It were the tho child of ot some someone one in her own or perhaps In mine J Es K cr J or er since I have read road that tor- tor ter terribly article to article to think that such sueh sucha sueha a thing should be written about one of ot my name In a public news news- newspaper paper paper-I paper I baste ha have taken to my bed bedI I consider It a that any anyone belonging to me should have her game came in the paper In I connee-I connection tion with the birth of ot a child You ero not mentioned among my friends frIend until you were wele christened However since Inee you hase ha ha e married John you have paid very little at- at attention at attention to my wishes and I expect we Ill ft now new drift farther arth r apart than ever 1 lour our devoted mother MARY MAHY ALDEN ALDER PRESCOTT P I S-I S I have not received that money for the painter yet TOMORROW Alice TOMORROW Alice Hamilton to ro roher her The mother mother Tho seriousness of marriage |