The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-10

Lovingly.
ADELAIDE.
To Mrs Adelaide Castor, Somewhere
Out West.
Dear Adelaide-rm glad you heard
about me taking lunch with, Cullen
have gone with Leila. Constance
| Featheringham. A man can't : eat
| lunch twice in one day. I've told you
a thousand times I've known Leila
| Constance ever since she was a little
| girl; they used to live across the
| street. Suppose she did want my pic
| ture? Every prominent man has re-
| quests for his photograph. You ought
! to be proud of it. Suppose 1 did give
1t to her? What's a photograph be-
tween friends? I ran into the Watt
| leighs accidentally both times. Any
ming to write some vaudeville sketches.
want to put the Wattleighs into one
of them. If write vaudeville sketches
I have to have color" don't /?
Well. nothing to do but look out of
the window. I wish I were out there
where there is some life. With love.
DODD.
To Dodd CASTOR. Esq, Philadelphia.
Dear Dodd-I am sorry you're so
lonely. But you wait until the bridge
you're in Philadelphia. You won't be
lonely then; you'll have something to
do every evening. don't think
they've heard about you yet, because
you're not complaining about how
poor you are and how hard 1t is to
meet the bills. Maybe. If they don't
| hear about you We can save a little
money. 1t has been done. L never
was SO Inundated in my life as was
the night you raised Frank Burrow
800 on pair of mines. I could see
his hand and he had a flush all the
time. All that money wasted. don't
care II red mines are your lucky cards
II you'd only play decent game-ten-
cent limit or something like that
shouldn't mind. But you're a born
gambler. and a mighty poor one.
I don't know what I'm going to do
with the dog when I go to the lake
He know there's something wrong and
looks mournful and sad. Who got the
stockings? As ever.
r ADELAIDE.
To Mrs. Adelaide CASTOR, Somewhere
Out West.
Dearest Adelaide-when you know
that I am in my room by 10 or II
o'clock every night you can he pretty
certain I am not gambling" as vol
call 1t. I never have been far enough
ahead of any game TO leave It by IL
, O'Clock IN the evening. You know
wouldn't send you "a cheap pair OF
stockings for a present. You know
! when get you present, and I hope
to 90 so before long. I am going Il
: buy you that pin you admired 30 much
You know we settled on that Mrs
Beverly didn't bring in much news
All she knew was some scandal and
quite bit of unconfirmed gossip
! '"Tank'' wasn't looking well. I thinI
. he is breaking down under his wife.
unjust suspicious. She keeps nagginl
| at him all the time about other wo-
) men. What woman would look at ole
Tank" With much love.
DoDD.
To Dodd CASTOR. Esq. Philadelphia
/ Pa.
! Dear Dodd-I am mighty glad {,
! hear YOU are in your room by 10 or Il
. o'clock every night It's the first tim,
I have known where you were at nigh
since we were married. Before we
were married I knew where YOU were
up to midnight; I've never known
since.
Yesterday a telegram ca me for you
II said. "Going thru on No. e." and
was signed Mary" Your Aunt Mary
supnose2 Vow have an Aunt Mary
haven't you? Who got the stockings.
AS ever.
. To Mr. Adelaide CASTOR. somewher,
Out West