The evening world., 1919-02-21
|EARNEDFORMA
| AKIN IN FEELING;
RESULT---A SUIT
.etter Found in Mrs. keeSe'S
Dress Made Basis of
Hubby'S Defense.

II ''coming back to the city is not
particularly good for one, and one
I'3els the need of a mate akin in feel
ing and temperament who could tako
wnat nature offers and give what ma
ture needs"
Such expressions as these, in the
belief of Paul Reese, who is connect
ID with an advertising agency, are
Dot properly TO be poured into The ear
be another mans wife. especially
ehen that mans wife treasures the
<Ietter that bore them against her
: Breast. Wherefore kccsc, who was
Recently made defendant in a scpara-
Zion suit by Frances NJ. Reese, sets
F but in an answer TO the suit filed IN
the County Clerks office to-day let
I" Der which he declares was written to
. hts wife by Francis X. Jackson, who
In 1916 was playing in New York.
. Nrs. kccsc charges cruelty and abIn-
donment. both OF which are denied.
"This letter." says Kccses answer,
Twas written by one Francis X.
Dackson, an actor of tho plaintiffs
Nacquaintancc. q man whom the de-
fendant had never mot, and of whom
he plaintiff boastcI as one Of her
1nqucsts."
n We AYERS that he found the letter
" Mrs. Kecsc's dress and that she
l became so enrdCed and loud that the
ibRdlord asked them 70 move out at
- o'clock in tho morning. Ralph X
Jacobs, counsel for Kccsc, said he
does not know where Mrs. Kecsc or
jackson arc living. Jackson Is an
Englishman. The letter he is charged
with writing was from the Felix
Portland at No. 132 West 47th Street
when Mrs. Reese, II appears, was in
Boston. 1t follows:
IL was delighted to hear from you,
my dear, 1T sorry you have been SO
+ seedy. ] mad a pleasant week-cnl
with George MacFarland fishing aud
shooting-quitc coed sport that made
the blood tinglc with the JOY of
living.
"The reaction coming back to the
city is not particularly good for one,
and one { the need OF mate akin
in feeling temperament who could
take what nature offers and give
what nature needs
= "rhc intense craving OF nature Is
Stho great struggle a man has 70 con-
tend with. You are feeling lonely
and want to get to Ne" York.
I am IN Now York and 81. makes
me feel lonely. II is difficult 20
find some congcn'al soul who has
a bright and healthy outlook on life,
Evcrythilg here partakcs Of the
exotic aud artificial. Tho hc-all and
cnd-all or the average New Yorker
\ are so like their signs on Broldway--
4 a restless, SNOWY, vivid bit OF mech
anism. IT'S binding glare shutting out
all view Of the armament above.
81 can imagine you wondering what
on earth that mad Englishman is
/. scribbling rcAms OF high -falutcd talk
to poor unhappy Frances. Well IT'S
the nature Of the beast. He takes
an interest in you. He woud hate
' to think Of YOU oyer floating in the
driftwood OF the wrecked lives OF This
I town"
The letter admonishcs that tho rc-
cipient 'to thine own self be true
and that you cannot tell what happy
days are in store if YOU only face tho
present unhappy time with straight
Hand determined attitude
vi "In case YOU should harbor any r.
sentiment" tho letter ends. 81 am
prompted hy tho thought o' my own
life which has always hCcn a struggle
with virtue and passion at perpetual
variance"