New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-07-05
Letter From Leslie Prescott to Mrs
Joseph Graves Hamilton.

Joseph Graves Hamilton.
Dear Mother ,-t-.
It was an unfortunate turn III
events that made me arrive home
lust three hours after you and dad
had left. I think it was horrtd FOL
dads secretary to get sick just al
this time.
l know you are most interested In
my visit to Jacks mother, for, OF
course you must have had some
inkling of my feelings in the matter
from the letter I wrote you.
Well, as Jack says, it was some
visit! You remember all about my
saying | did not believe Mrs. Pres
colt was i'll at ALL think 1t was
Just a conspiracy to get Jack over
there and tell him about me and get
some money out of Jack.
Both Mrs. Prescott and Miss Brad
ford were SURPRISED and chagrined
when l made my appearance and
things went from bad to worse UNI
til, as a. climax, Karl Whitney made
his appearance on the scene at what
seems to be the ungodly hour of 9
o'clock.
It was bad enough for Karl to cal!
upon me at all but to come In the
middle of the night was unspeakable.
He has probably showed you be-
fore this Alice's wireless. What did
Alice mean when she said, i shall
wear the pearl ring and think of
your goodness whenever l look at
it?'
Surely you do not intend that Alice
and Karl shall be engaged. ] think
Karl rather wanted me to ask him
for an explanation, but l would not
do that. 1t seemed to me it was
making too much of it.
! merely said, Kari, | think 1t is
foolish for you to give a girl as
young as Alice a pearl ring. She is
too young to wear expensive jewels"
He made no reply to this.
Well, mother dear, l have to re-
port that your daughter is a nasty
little cat, Things came to a show
down at the home of Jacks mother.
Right before Karl l made 1t perfect
ly clear that either Priscilla Brad
ford should leave the house or 1
would, and then l had taste of the
iplendid Unborn aristocracy of the
puritan blood.
With perfect politeness and kind
ness. in a way that l could take no
offense, l was dismissed. l really
admired Jacks mother more at that
time than any other.
| went to the next town with Karl
and arrived home to tell my troubles
to Jack. He was much more angry
tLan /.
Mother Jacks a dear, but some
way he seems very much worried
lately. cannot understand It at
all. 1t cannot be money troubles,
for In the few months we have been
married he has had his salary boost
ed once and earned two big bonuses
besides.
Did you notice. mother dear. while
you were here that when he thinks
no one is looking at him, a worried
look comes into his eyes? Ii grieves
me greatly that he does not confde
in me, but | am not going TO worry
him about it.
] really have very little curiosity
you know. ] have always believed
that any one whom you loved should
be allowed to tell you as much or as
little as nc wished OF his own affairs.
| think that it is mark of your 10y
atty.
Curiosity, L believe, is a vice
which sometimes masquerades as
Virtue-or would you say it is a yir-
ture which sometimes masquerades
as a vice? Like all good things in
this world. it can be overdone.
We would know nothing i'm this
y orld If we did not question our
selves or each other; but still a per-