Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-01-16

people through letters. My fans IRE
all ages and sizes and descriptions
have wee notes from little schoolb0ys
and schoolgirls, written in wr.gglins
sarawl, now big and now little, or in
tensely correct. (Bless their heartsD
For instance, little girl in India has
care and labor:
"I am writing to you because was
so taken with you because of your
lovely face and your lovely ways, SO
made up my mind to write to you.
How on earth had you the pluck and
courage to climb down that building of
two hundred feet? You did look funny
with your skirts all hitched up, but
of course you couldn't have slid down
without hitching up your skirt. Are
you really twenty-one? Do answer
this letter. TIE weather is so gloomy,
as the rains have begun in India, and
it rains every day. Did you really faint
in the Salvation Army office?
"And another-this from Liverpool:
my chief hobby is oil painting, SO
I have sent you some samples and
hope you will like them. If you do
please write to me and tell me so, and
If YOU don't, please write to me any
way.
81 would like to do something for
you. ls there anything l can do? If
Goes not matter what it is, l will do
it. l wish l was acting for a cinema
company. | would like to jump out OF
windows, getting knocked down by
motors and climb along telegraph
wires.
well. will tell you aything you
like to know about Liverpool. 1t ia
an interesting place. Chief seaport
Of the world, largest docks. oldest
ruins, etc. But there is one thing, and
that is that l cannot see any films
about you.
"'P. S.-This IS not supposed to be
love letter.
Cor letters come from young men
wanting my photograph, or autograph
CIR lock of hair. Juss witness this:
81 am looliing at your pictures now
az they stand before me. How won.
dcr:ul your eyes are; how deep-Gnd
how alluring. And your lips, in the
one in which you lock like the Blessed
Madeline. (God b,ccs you!) How
those lips tempt me, call me. Shall J
make confession? looked at these
lirs just now. and they were SO ire
s.stiblc, jus. closed my eyes, bent
over, and--yes, you have guessed it,
/ knew when l was doing it that it was
foolish, yet
"rhen there are letters from young
women who want advice about going
into the films. And business men
who want to correspond. 1 have a
letter now from high government
official, just friendly, well-wishing
letter. telling me of novel he has
sent me by express. And letters from
mothers who take their little ones to
see me every Saturday, and grand
fathers, Ealing me their girl
"One ,.dmirer in Shanghai, China,
wants NY autograph. Quite flock
OF requests come from Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa for por.
traits, and from many film friends in
the British Isles, on the Continent,
and in Canada. Several letters have
come from South America. And here
Is one ardent fellow Off in Rangoon,
Burma, with reams of glowing appre.
citation and really wonderful ideas
rather literaly translated--which give
his letter a poetic flavor. He must
have the soul OF poet. He calls me
his Goddess of Light and says my com.
ing is like the trumpeting Of the an
gels.
A Spanish youth In Cornell wants
me to visit him and his mother or
their plantation. And little girl IL
Jersey town assures me OF ride
in her pony cart II ! will visit her
One admirer in Brooklyn has written
me not less than twice week, some
times eery day. for several months